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Title
- Assistant Professor
Division Humanities Division
Department
- History Department
Affiliations Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
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 Fall 2019: On Leave
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/