Wyatt Wiggins
Wyatt Wiggins is a PhD candidate in the History Department at the University of California, Irvine. He was a 2025 Chateaubriand Fellow and is a current Global Slavery History Fellow at the International Institute of Social History, through the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science. His work focuses on the histories of crime and punishment in France and the French Caribbean.
June 12, 2026
From Public Execution to Penal Modernity by Wyatt Wiggins
The end of our series on violent punishment in early modern France and its empire by Wyatt Wiggins.
Guest: Wyatt Wiggins
June 9, 2026
The Empire’s Edge- Exporting Pain to Colonial Spaces by Wyatt Wiggins
Wyatt Wiggins explores punishment and power in the French Empire.
Guest: Wyatt Wiggins
April 24, 2026
Burning Flesh in the French Empire by Wyatt Wiggins
Wyatt Wiggins talks about how French imperial agents branded human beings as a demonstration of power.
Guest: Wyatt Wiggins