Terrence G. Peterson

Terrence G. Peterson is historian of Modern France and the French Empire whose research and teaching focus on decolonization, migration, and warfare. In addition to his book, Revolutionary Warfare, he has published articles in a number of academic journals including the Journal of Social History, the Journal of Contemporary History, the Journal of North African Studies, and French Politics, Culture & Society. In 2024 he received a Society for Military History Vandervort Prize for outstanding journal article in the field of military history. And in 2025, he received a National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Award to support 12 months of research on his second book project, which examines the nearly seventy-year history of the Rivesaltes Camp in southern France to understand why migrant detention camps emerged as a quintessential tool of modern governance and remain so today.