Rachel Johnston-White is a historian of modern Europe based at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, where she is an assistant professor of European politics and society. Her research interests include Christianity, secularism, religion and politics, and human rights.

Rachel Johnston-White

Joseph Peterson is an assistant professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi. His research interests include Catholicism and Islam in 19th-century France and the French empire.

Joseph Peterson

French Secularism, Reinvented

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"You always admire what you really don't understand."
— Blaise Pascal

Religion

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Joseph Peterson is an assistant professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi. His research interests include Catholicism and Islam in 19th-century France and the French empire.