Directory of Research and Expertise

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Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:

Colonies & Colonization, emigration & immigration, Communities, Classes, Races, Gender studies, History, Modern History

Research keywords:

Colonial History, Modern History, Settler Colonial Studies, Gender History, Cultural History

Regions:

Africa, Australasia, Europe

Languages:

	Spoken	Written
French	Fluent	Fluent

Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date	Details
01-Jul-2021	The New White Race: Settler Colonialism and the Press in French Algeria, 1860-1914 Monographs
01-Jul-2021	‘Resettling Europe: Paul Robin, His Tribe, and Inter-Imperial Constructions of Whiteness in the 1890s and early 1900s’, French History and Civilization, 10 (2021), 70-84. Articles
01-Jan-2019	‘The Medical Press and the Settler Colonial Politics of Persuasion in French Algeria, 1850-1914’, History, 104, 359 (2019), 105-124. Articles
01-Jun-2018	‘Pages without borders: global networks and the settler press in Algeria, 1881-1914’, Settler Colonial Studies, 8, 2 (2018), 152-174. Articles
01-Jan-2016	‘‘Embodying “the new white race”: Colonial Doctors and Settler Society in Algeria, 1878-1911’, Social History of Medicine Vol.29, No.1 (2016),1-20. Articles

Publications available on SAS-space:

Date

Details

Aug-2015

Embodying 'the new white race': colonial doctors and settler society in Algeria, 1878-1911 PeerReviewed This article examines the cultural identifications of doctors of French origin working for the colonial medical service in Algeria at the end of the nineteenth century. As representatives of the state, doctors were expected to uphold the gendered values of civilisation which underpinned the French Third Republic and its empire. Yet they also formed part of a mixed European settler community which insisted upon its own racial and cultural specificity. Faced with a series of centralising reforms to the service from 1878, doctors tied their pursuit of professional freedom to a wider settler movement for autonomy. In so doing, they came to embody a self-proclaimed ‘new white race’ which sought to physically regenerate the empire. In tracing these doctors' mediation between their governmental employers and their settler patients, this article exposes tensions within French medical culture in Algeria and reflects on the consequences for the operation of colonial power.

Research Projects & Supervisions

Research projects:

Details
Connected Histories of Empire: France and Britain in the South Pacific, 1890-1914 University of London Institute in Paris Project period: 03-Aug-2020 - 13-Dec-2023 Research interests: Modern History

Current PhD topics supervised:

Dates	Details
From: 28-Jan-2024 Until:	Algerian Jewish Women and Photography Second supervisor

Available for doctoral supervision: Yes

Professional Affiliations

Professional affiliations:

Name	Activity
Society for Global Nineteenth Century Studies

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