Todd Shepard is Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor at the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. His scholarship explores how imperialism and transnational developments shaped late-twentieth-century France. His first book, The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France (2006), is a history of the close of the Algerian War and the difficult renegotiation of French state structures and national identity that resulted. In his second monograph, Sex, France, and Arab Men (2017), he shows how “sexual Orientalism” reemerged in post-decolonization French politics and discussions.