Tyler Stovall 

Tyler Stovall is professor of history and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Fordham University. His focus is on the history of modern and twentieth century France, about which he has written several books and articles. His studies have ranged from the Paris suburbs to black American expatriates in France to the French Caribbean. He is particularly interested in questions of race and class, blackness, postcolonial history, and transnational history.