2013 Barbara Early-Vreeland Lecture

Shannon Fogg
Shannon Fogg

Dr. Shannon Fogg, associate professor of history at Missouri University of Science and Technology, delivered the 2013 Barbara Early-Vreeland Lecture on March 26. Her lecture was entitled “Stealing Home: The Looting of Jewish Apartments in Paris During the Second World War.”  Dr. Fogg is an authority on life in Vichy France.  Cambridge University Press published her book The Politics of Everyday Life in Vichy France: Foreigners, Undesirables, and Strangers in 2008. The Missouri History Conference voted it the best book produced by a Missouri historian that year. In her Early-Vreeland Lecture, Dr. Fogg discussed the focus of her new book. That work will survey the “Furniture Operation,” which the German occupation force implemented during World War II in order to deprive Jews in Paris of all of their household possessions. The event drew a large crowd of students, faculty, and members of the Kirksville community. More photos are available in the Photo Gallery.