Faculty Directory

- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- History Department
- Affiliations Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- Phone 831-459-4257
- Website
- Office Location
- Stevenson College Academic Building, 212
- Office Hours Winter 2021 - Wednesdays, 9-11 AM (email for Zoom link)
- 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 156B: Modern Arab Thought, HIS 184B: Race and Anti-Racism in Europe, 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, HIS 252: Republicanism and its Discontents
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/