Algeria

Benjamin Brower

History

Benjamin Brower specializes in modern France and its colonies with a focus on nineteenth-century Algeria. Brower's research examines the colonial situation, and its impact on the societies of the colonized and colonizers. His broader research interests include violence; French colonialism, Islam, and secularism; colonization and language, and colonial-era pilgrimage to Mecca.

Mounira Charrad

Sociology, Middle Eastern Studies

Mounira M. Charrad has focused on state formation, colonialism, law, citizenship, women's rights and social movements. She has considered strategies of state building in kin-based societies and how struggles over state power shaped the expansion or curtailment of women's rights. Her current research centers on the secular feminist movement in Tunisia, women’s activism, women's associations, secularism, and civil society.

Dale Correa

History, Middle Eastern Studies, Religious Studies

Dale Correa specializes in Islamic legal theory, theology, philosophy, and Qur'anic studies, with an interest in the intellectual tradition of the eastern regions of the Islamicate empire.

Vijay Mahajan

Marketing

Vijay Mahajan's areas of expertise include marketing strategy, product diffusion, research methodology and the Global South.

Valerie McGuire

French and Italian

Valerie McGuire's research and teaching interests center on the transnational, colonial, and postcolonial processes that have defined modern Italian culture, both within the peninsula and among its collectivities abroad.

Julija Šukys

English, Comparative Literature

Julija Šukys draws on archives, interviews, bibliographical research, and observation to write about minor lives in war-torn or marginal places, about women’s life-writing, and about the legacy of violence across generations and national borders.

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