Directory
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- History Department
- Affiliations Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA)
- Phone 831-459-4257
- Office Location
- Stevenson College Academic Building, 212
- Office Hours Winter 2024: on leave
- 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 194W: Social Movements in the Middle East, 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:
“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.
