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Muriam Haleh Davis

Associate Professor

831-459-4257

 

Humanities Division

History Department

Associate Professor

Faculty

Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA)

Regular Faculty

North Africa
Middle East Studies
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Capitalism
European Studies

Stevenson College Academic Building
212

Winter 2024: Wednesdays from 2-3pm and by appointment.

Stevenson Academic Services

2004-2006: MA in Arab Studies, Georgetown University

2006-2008: MA in Culture and Theory, University of California, Irvine

2008-2015: PhD in History, NYU 

2015-2016: Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow, European University Institute 

My research interests focus on development, decolonization and race in North Africa. My first book, Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria will be published with Duke University Press in 2022. I am currently working on the history of the social sciences and decolonization, with a particular focus on the discipline of sociology.

Books:

Markets of Civilization: Racial Capitalism and Islam in Algeria, Duke University Press.

Co-editor of North Africa and the Making of Europe: Governance, Institution and Culture. Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2018. 

Selected Recent Articles:

"Race and Decolonization in North Africa," Oxford Research Encylopedia of African History, Spring 2023.

“‘Algiers and the Algerian Desert: Decolonization and Territorial Planning in France, 1958-1962,” Journal of Modern History, Fall 2023.

"Incommensurate Ontologies? Anti-Black Racism and the Question of Islam in French Algeria." Lateral, Spring 2021.

"The Transformation of Man in French Algeria: Economic Planning and the Postwar Social Sciences." Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 52(1), 73-94, 2017.

 

Recent Media Appearances/Writings:

France24, “Algeria Marks 60 Years since the End of French Rule,” 5 July 2022.

 

 Al-Jazeera Plus, “What you Don’t Hear about France’s Muslims,” 22 April 2022.

 

Jadaliyya, “Macron’s Speech Purposefully Misdiagnosed the Real Issues Facing the Republic,” 20 March 2022.

 

 

HIS 154: Postcolonial North Africa
HIS 156B: Modern Arab Thought
HIS 184B: Race and Anti-Racism in Europe
HIS 170C: From the Trenches to the Casbah: France and its Empire in the 20th Century
HIS 252: Republicanism and its Discontents
HIS 262: The Contours of the New Middle East History

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