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Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik
Cornell University
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Discipline
History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Algeria
Morocco
North America
Tunisia
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Italian (fluent)
French (native)
Spanish (fluent)
German (intermediate)
Portuguese (intermediate)
Education
MA | 2014 | History | Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
BA | 2011 | Islamic and Middle-East Studies | Brandeis University
Abstracts
To the Left of the Left: The Alt-Panafrican Festival of Algiers (1969) The Red in Red-Carpet Regalia: The Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage and the Fight for African Liberation Gender Bending and Colonial Conquest Maghreb Mithlya: Histories of Queer People in the 2011 Tunisian Revolution