Elizabeth Foster is Associate Professor of History at Tufts University and the author of Faith in Empire: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Rule in French Senegal, 1880–1940, which won the Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize from the French Colonial Historical Society, as well as African Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church, which won the John Gilmary Shea Prize from the American Catholic Historical Society. Previously, Dr. Foster has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Center for European Studies and has received Fulbright, ACLS, and NEH Fellowships.
