Advisor: Dr. W. Caleb McDaniel

Olivier Péloquin is a Ph.D. candidate in U.S. history who is interested in transnational perspectives on the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. His dissertation proposes a comprehensive study of New Orleans' White and Afro-Creole communities and how they participated in and mirrored broader Atlantic discussions on race, martial manhood, and citizenship rooted in the longer Age of Revolutions. While Péloquin's work centers on New Orleans and Louisiana, his interest also extends to the French military intervention in Mexico (1862-1867) and post-emancipation struggles in Martinique and Jamaica. In 2024, as part of his research, he was an invited doctoral student at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Prior to his current study, Péloquin earned an MA from McGill University, where he researched the end of Reconstruction in Mississippi, citizenship, self-defense, and the violent electoral campaign of 1875.