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Iris Seri-Hersch
Aix-Marseille University
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Département d'études moyen-orientales
Faculté ALLSH, Aix-Marseille Université 29 avenue Robert Schuman
13621 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 01
France
ABOUT
Iris Seri-Hersch is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Middle East Studies, Aix-Marseille Université, France. Her research -published both in English and French- deals with the history of modern Sudan and Palestine/Israel. Her latest books are Sudan, 1504-2019: From Social History to Politics from Below (coedited with Elena Vezzadini, Anaël Poussier, Lucie Revilla & Mahasin Y. Abd al-Jalil, 2022, forthcoming), Spatial Appropriations in Modern Empires, 1820-1960: Beyond Dispossession (coedited with Didier Guignard, 2019) and Enseigner l'histoire à l'heure de l'ébranlement colonial: Soudan, Egypte, empire britannique, 1943-1960 (2018).
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
African Studies
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Colonialism
Education
Environment
Historiography
Identity/Representation
Israel Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Minorities
Ottoman Studies
Palestinian Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
All Middle East
Israel
Palestine
Sudan
Specialties
Oral History & Social Memory
History Of Education
Colonial Politics Of Space
Languages
French (native)
English (advanced)
Hebrew (advanced)
Arabic (advanced)
German (intermediate)
Spanish (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2012 | IREMAM | Aix-Marseille Université
MA | 2007 | Département d'études moyen-orientales | Aix-Marseille Université
BA | 2005 | Middle Eastern and African History | Tel Aviv University
Abstracts
Mapping History Teaching in Late Colonial Sudan (1945-1956)