About

Luke Sebastian Scalone is the Chargé des Programmes at the Centre d’Etudes Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT) as well as a Ph.D. Candidate in World History at Northeastern University.

At CEMAT, he has organized numerous conferences and events, including the 2022 AIMS Conference on Libyan Arts and Humanities, the 2023 AIMS Conference, “Remade by War: New Perspectives on Postwar North Africa,” lectures and workshops on subjects relating to Tunisian history and society, podcasts with Maghrib in Past and Present | Podcasts, and reading discussion groups. Additionally, he manages a project on the cultural history of tourism in Tunisia, writes the CEMAT newsletter, and is the point-person for all research fellows affiliated with CEMAT.

Although he was originally trained as a French colonial historian, he is also a historian of North Africa and his dissertation, entitled Forging Vichy Tunisia: Empire, Nationalism, and Fascism in the Central Mediterranean, 1930-1943 analyzes the relationship between the French Protectorate administration and extreme-right French and Italian settler movements.

He is also the Network Editor for H-French-Colonial and sits on the editorial board for the World History Bulletin. In the past, he was also the Graduate Assistant for the World History Association and hastaught courses at both Northeastern University and Boston College.