Catalina "Kiki" Mackaman-Lofland | Assistant Professor
Catalina 'Kiki' Mackaman-Lofland
Assistant Professor
CTIHB 321
About
I am a historian of modern France and its empire, with a particular focus on French colonialism in North Africa, higher education, and the history of knowledge production in the humanities and social sciences. My current book project, Algeria’s French University: Research and Resistance at the Faculté des lettres d’Alger, 1930-1965, examines the social, intellectual, and political history of France’s leading center for social scientific research on North Africa in the first half of the twentieth century: the humanities college of the University of Algiers. By bridging the colonial and national periods of Algerian history, I argue that academic research on North Africa proved an unreliable and unwieldy aid to not only French colonial projects, but also Algerian nation-building efforts after the country won independence from France in 1962.
Education
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Ph.D., The Ohio State University
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M.A., The Ohio State University
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B.A. Barnard College of Columbia University
Research Focus
Key Publications
2023: “The ‘Eternal Dependence of the Maghreb’: The Faculté des lettres d'Alger and North African History during the French Algerian Centenary,” French Politics, Culture & Society 41, 3 (2023): 29-50, https://doi.org/10.3167/fpcs.2023.410302
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