The French Colonial Mind, Volume 1: Mental Maps of Empire and Colonial Encounters

List of Contributors

347 Contributors tony chafer is professor of contemporary French area studies and director of the Centre for European and International Studies Research at the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom. He has published widely on Franco-African relations in the late colonial and postcolonial era and is the author of The End of Empire in French West Africa: France’s Successful Decolonization? (Berg, 2002). He has recently completed a research project on Franco-British cooperation in Africa with Gordon Cumming (Cardiff University), the main findings of which will be published in a book entitled From Rivalry to Partnership? New Approaches to the Challenges of Africa (Ashgate, forthcoming 2011). véronique dimier is associate professor of political science at the Universit é Libre de Bruxelles, Institut d’Études Européennes. She is the author of Le gouvernement des colonies: Regards croisés franco-britanniques (Presses Universitaires de Bruxelles, 2004), and she has recently completed a further book, Recycling Empire: The Invention of a European Aid Bureaucracy , 1998–2008 (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011). jennifer m. dueck earned her D.Phil. in modern history at Merton College, Oxford, where she was a senior scholar. Her doctoral thesis on culture and politics in French Mandate Syria and Lebanon was awarded the Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. Her book on the same topic, entitled The Claims of Culture at Empire’s End: Syria and Lebanon under French Rule, was published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. Currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, she has also held teaching and research appointments at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics. ruth ginio is senior lecturer in history at Ben Gurion University of the Negev and a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for Contributors 348 the Advancement of Peace in Jerusalem. Her publications include French Colonialism Unmasked: The Vichy Years in French West Africa (University of Nebraska Press, 2006), Violence and Non-Violence in Africa, coedited with Pal Ahluwalia and Louise Bethlehem (Routledge, 2007), and Shadows of War: A History of Silence in the Twentieth Century, coedited with Efrat Ben Ze’ev and Jay Winter (Cambridge University Press, 2010). alexander keese is an assistant professor at the Centre of African Studies of the University of Porto (Portugal). He is the author of Living with Ambiguity: Integrating an African Elite in French and Portuguese Africa, 1930–61 (Steiner, 2007) and the editor of Ethnicity and the Long-Term Perspective: The African Experience (Peter Lang, 2009). james d. le sueur is professor of history at the University of Nebraska– Lincoln. He has written extensively on the impact of colonialism on Algeria and, among other works, is author of Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics during the Decolonization of Algeria, now in a second edition with the University of Nebraska Press. Most recently he published Algeria since 1989: Between Democracy and Terror (Zed Books, 2010), and he is currently finishing a documentary on writers from Muslim-majority countries living in exile as a result of political and religious persecution. patricia m. e. lorcin is associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities and editor of French Historical Studies. Her publications include Imperial Identities: Stereotyping, Prejudice and Race in Colonial Algeria (I. B. Tauris, 1995), an edited volume, Algeria and France, 1800–2000: Identity, Memory and Nostalgia (Syracuse University Press, 2006), several coedited volumes, and numerous articles on French colonial history. She is currently completing a monograph on colonial women writers in Algeria and Kenya. maría del mar logroño narbona is an assistant professor of modern Middle Eastern history at Florida International University. She has conducted a collaborative research and dissemination project on “Islam in Latin America” (2009–11) funded by the Social Science Research Council. As part of this project she has written and coproduced a short educational documentary, Being Muslim in Latin America (Oxford Talks, 2010). She has also written “The ‘Woman Question’ in the Aftermath of the Great Syria Revolt” in Al-Raida (May 2007), and “La actividad política transnacional de las comunidades árabes en Argentina: El caso de Jorge Sawaya,” in La Contribución Arabe a los Identidades Iberoamericanas (Casa Arabe, 2009). Contributors 349 kenneth j. orosz is an assistant professor at Buffalo State College, where he teaches European, African, and colonial history. He is the author of several forthcoming articles on missionary activities in...