Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

Historian and professor at the University of Paris 1, Dominique Kalifa works on the history of crime, social control, and mass culture in 19th- and early 20th- century France and Europe. His book “Vice, Crime and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld” (Columbia University Press) examines the underworld of 19th and 20th century France.

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