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received her PhD in 2000 from Indiana University. She is currently associate professor of French at the University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg, KY, where she has taught since 2001. Her research interests include the figure of la vieille in Baroque poetry and the comic novel, teaching with cinema, and more recently, women’s postcolonial literature.

Full Professor of Modern African History at University Paris-7 Denis Diderot and a member of the research unit SEDET/CNRS. Her main field is socio-economic history in the urban setting. Her present research project focuses on leisure and culture, mainly on cinema. She also addresses the question of conceptual categories in African History. She has published numerous articles and two books (Commerce et colonisation en Guinée, 1850-1913, L'Harmattan, 1986; Pouvoir colonial, municipalités et espaces urbains. Conakry et Freetown, des années 1880 à 1914, L'Harmattan, 1997). She also edited several publications, including recently: Perspectives historiques sur le genre en Afrique, (Groupe « Afrique », Cahiers n°23), L’Harmattan, 2007.

currently Temporary Lecturer in African History at the University of Cambridge, having recently received her doctorate from the University of Oxford. Her research interests include crime and punishment in Africa, gender, violence, and capital punishment.

Assistant Professor of African History at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, where she is also teaching World History. She received her B.A and M.A from Cheikh Anta Diop University (Dakar, Senegal) and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has written on issues of prisons in colonial and post-colonial Senegal, female delinquency, and women in politics. Currently, she is working on a project on women and fashion in colonial Senegal. 

His research interests include the Algeria War, French decolonization, migration, racism, and Islam in Europe. His publications include Colonial Migrants and Racism: Algerians in France, 1900-62 (Macmillan, 1997); Racism in Europe, 1870-2000 (Palgrave, 2001); and with Jim House, Paris 1961: Algerians, State Terror, and Memory (Oxford University Press, 2006). He is soon to complete a book, Burning the Veil: military propaganda and the ‘emancipation’ of women during the Algerian War of Independence, 1954-1962 (Manchester University Press, forthcoming).

Assistant Professor of history at the University of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada. She specializes in contemporary Central African history, emphasizing the themes of gender, nationalism, and postcoloniality. Her work explores the interstices between local, state, and global political processes. Her previous research on the history of the Union des populations du Cameroun has appeared in the Journal of African History.

Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Vienna and the University of Paris 7. She received her PhD from the University of Vienna in November 2006. Her research interests include migration history, gender studies, and legal history in West Africa.

Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Portsmouth. She is also completing her PhD on the itineraries and memories of women veterans of the Algerian War of Independence in the History Department of Queen Mary, University of London, under the supervision of Julian Jackson. Her research interests include oral history, gender studies, and the relationship between history and memory.