Richard S. Fogarty is Associate Professor of History and Associate Dean for General Education at the University at Albany, State University of New York, and is the author of Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army, 1914-1918 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), winner of Phi Alpha Theta’s Best First Book Prize.  He has also recently published the volume Empires in World War I: Shifting Frontiers and Imperial Dynamics in a Global Conflict (I.B. Tauris, 2014), which he co-edited with Andrew Tait Jarboe.  He is now working on a study of North African prisoners of war during the Great War, with special attention to the place of Islam and Muslims in France and the French colonial empire, as well as in the wider military and ideological struggle in Europe and the Middle East.

Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army, 1914-1918John E. Talbott, Kenneth J. Moure, Machael A. Osborne, J. Sears McGee