Faculty Directory
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- History Department
- Affiliations Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA), Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- Phone 831-459-4257
- Office Location
- Stevenson College Academic Building, 212
- Office Hours Fall 2023: Monday 8-10am and by appointment; email in advance to set up Zoom meeting during office hours
- Mail Stop Stevenson Academic Services
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Faculty Areas of Expertise North Africa, Middle East Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Capitalism, European Studies
- Courses 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
Research Interests
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.
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
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.
