He specializes in French colonial and postcolonial history, with a particular interest in the relationship between decolonization and intellectual and cultural history. His most recent publication is “Race, Citizenship, and Antillean Student Activism in Postwar France, 1946–1968” (French Historical Studies, 2014). He is currently at work on a book tentatively titled “After Négritude: The Cultural Politics of Place in Postwar France and the Caribbean.”