Muriam H Davis

User Muriam H Davis

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Humanities Division

Associate Professor

Faculty

Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA)

Stevenson College Academic Building
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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:

 

Histoire et capitalisme racial :un entretien," Marronnages, Vol. 3, No. 1, Winter 2024.

 

Frantz Fanon the Sociologist? Algeria, Tunisia and the Making of a Discipline," POMEPS Studies 53, Fall 2024.

 

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

 

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

 

Recent Media Appearances/Writings:

 

LARB, “The US Academy and the Provincialization of Frantz Fanon,” 2023.

 

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

 

 

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