Charles Bégué Fawell

Bio:

Charles Bégué Fawell is a historian of modern Europe, specializing in the history of France and the French Empire. His research interests include the politics of mobility and infrastructure and the intersections of race, labor, corporations, and geopolitics. He is currently finishing his first book, Empire on the Line: Mobility, Politics, and the Ocean Corridors of French Colonialism, 1850-1950. This project explores the transoceanic routes that connected France to its 19th and 20th-century colonies in Asia and Africa, arguing that these sea lanes were more central to the rise and collapse of European colonialism than has previously been understood. He is also co-editing a volume on the longstanding debates and contemporary relevance of the First World War, tentatively entitled, Into the Fire: Grand Strategies of the First World War. Before joining Stony Brook, Charles taught and researched at Williams College, Yale University, and the University of Chicago, where he earned his PhD.

 

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