Campus Directory

Division Humanities Division

Department/College/Unit History Department

Title Associate Professor

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA)

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Areas of Expertise North Africa
Middle East Studies
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Capitalism
European Studies

Primary Office Location Stevenson College Academic Building
212

Office Hours for Students/ Office Hours Winter 2024: on leave

Mail Stop Stevenson Academic Services

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 

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.

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.

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