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Title
- Assistant Professor
Division Humanities Division
Department
- History Department
Phone
831-459-4257
Email
- muhdavis@ucsc.edu
Website
- North Africa and the Making of Europe: Institutions, Governance, and Culture
Office Location
- Stevenson College Academic Building, 212
Office Hours Spring 2019: Tuesdays, 4:00 pm - 5:30pm or by appointment
Mail Stop Stevenson Academic Services
Faculty Areas of Expertise North Africa, Middle East Studies, European Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Environmental History, Capitalism
Courses HIS 154: Postcolonial North Africa, HIS 184B: Race and Anti-Racism in Europe, HIS 252: Republicanism and its Discontents, HIS 170B: France and French Empire in the 19th Century, HIS 170C: From the Trenches to the Casbah: France and its Empire in the 20th Century

Research Interests

My research interests focus on development, decolonization and race in North Africa. I am currently working on a manuscript that studies how the postwar reinvention of a market economy influenced prevailing ideas of race and national identity in Algeria.

Biography, Education and Training

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

Selected Publications

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

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/north-africa-and-the-making-of-europe-9781350021822/