The focus of my research is modern Algerian and French history. In particular, I am interested in oral history, gender studies and the relationship between history, memory and the construction of identities in both Europe and Africa. I have carried out extensive field research in Algeria and France since 2005, including interviewing Algerian women who participated in the War of Independence (1954-1962) about their experiences in post-colonial Algeria and their memories of the conflict, and carrying out a case study at a teacher training college in Algiers on the teaching of history and the transmission of memory. I am currently working on a monograph, provisionally entitled Our fighting sisters: nation, memory and gender in Algeria, 1954-2012 (under contract with Manchester University Press) and I am also a lead member of a British-Academy-sponsored UK-Africa Academic Partnership. This is a cross-institutional team working to develop partnerships between staff and students at the Universities of Portsmouth, Dakar, Algiers and the Algiers Ecole normale supérieure (teacher training college) around a collaborative project and training programme entitled ‘Oral history across generations’.

History

Modern

Colonialism

Gender/Women's Studies

Maghreb Studies

Algeria

1. Oral History

2. Nation And State-building

3. Memory And Inter-generational Transmission

English (native)

French (fluent)

Arabic (elementary)