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Elizabeth Perego
Appalachian State University
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
416 E. 14th Ave.
Apt 6
Columbus OH 43201
United States
ABOUT
I am an Assistant Professor of History at Appalachian State University and present fellow at Princeton's University's Department of Near Eastern Studies (Institute for Transregional Studies). My scholarship looks at the intersection of gender, culture, and politics in contemporary North Africa. I am especially intrigued by questions of belonging, exclusion, and imagined geographies in post-independence societies. My current project "De-mock-ratiyya: Humor, History, Protest, and Conflict in Algeria, 1988-2005" traces the history of Algerian communities' use of political humor over the course of the country's post-independence era, taking the "Dark Decade" or "Time of Terrorism" as a moment of disruption.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
African Studies
Colonialism
Gender/Women's Studies
Human Rights
Identity/Representation
Pop Culture
Geographic Areas of Interest
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Algeria
Libya
Maghreb
Mauritania
Morocco
Tunisia
Specialties
Political Culture, History Of The Modern Maghrib
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
English (native)
Education
PhD | 2017 | History | Ohio State University
MA | 2012 | History | Ohio State University
BA | 2008 | History and French | Tulane University
Abstracts
Drawing in the Face of Death: Motivations behind Algerian Cartooning during the Civil War, 1991-2002 War-Torn Algeria as Woman: Representations of Women during Algeria’s “Dark Decade,” 1991-2002 “My Name’s Muhammad but Everyone Calls Me Aisha:” Emasculating Jokes from Algeria’s “Dark Decade,” 1991-2002 "Women Forbidden from Going Out?:” Women’s Public Activism in Algeria’s Islamic Salvation Front Party, 1989-1992 Memory Activism, the Malleability of Time, and Writing in the “White” of the Past in Post-Independence Algeria Saïd Mekbel’s “Mesmar J’ha” Editorials and Emotional Mobilization in Algeria’s “Dark Decade” “Back to Black (Humor)? Laughter Amidst Repression in Algeria’s ‘Revolution of Smiles’” Performing Masculinity in Algerian Theater of the Interwar Period, 1926-1939 A “Terrorist” Despite Himself: Men and Masculinity in Algerian Spoofs of Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers