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Terrence G. Peterson serves as Associate Professor in the History Department at Florida International University (FIU), specializing in modern European and imperial history with research foci on decolonization, migration, and warfare.
His scholarship critically examines how colonial conflicts transformed governance practices, particularly through his 2024 monograph Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency (Cornell University Press), which analyzes French military strategies reframing counterinsurgency as armed social reform. Current NEH-supported research investigates the seventy-year evolution of France's Rivesaltes Camp to understand migrant detention's emergence as a governance tool.
Peterson's peer-reviewed publications span the Journal of Social History, Journal of Contemporary History, French Politics, Culture & Society, and Journal of North African Studies, alongside public scholarship in War on the Rocks and the Huffington Post, plus the French popular history volume Colonisations: Notre histoire.
His recognition includes:
- FIU Top Scholar Award for teaching excellence (2021)
- Society for Military History Vandervort Prize for outstanding military history article (2024)
Research funding derives from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright IIE Program, American Historical Association, Society for French Historical Studies, Doris G. Quinn Foundation, and Council for European Studies.
Peterson actively shapes historical discourse as Secretary of the Western Society for French History and Board Member of ReSI (Remembering Spaces of Internment), advancing scholarly collaboration on internment heritage and colonial memory.
