Dr Arthur Asseraf
BA, MA, MSc, DPhil
Quondam Fellow since 2019
My research spans French, Middle Eastern and global history. I am particularly interested in how people come to know and think about situations far removed from their own. As part of this, I am currently completing a DPhil on the history of international news in colonial Algeria. I have also launched a larger collaborative project on 'The Politics of Colonial Comparison' to understand how colonial empires compared themselves to each other. Beyond modern North Africa and France, I am interested in theories of settler colonialism, and more broadly in the relationship between social segregation and empathy.
- Examination Fellow, All Souls College (from 2012 to 2019)
- Postgraduate, Columbia University and London School of Economics (from 2010 to 2012)
- Undergraduate, King's College, Cambridge (from 2007 to 2010)
- Colonial Algeria
- Settler colonialism
- Global intellectual history
- Modern France
- 'Weapons of Mass Representation: Algerians in the French Parliament, 1958-1962' in Rabah Aissaoui and Claire Eldridge (eds.) Algeria Revisited: Conflict and Identity in the Colonial and Postcolonial Era (forthcoming).
- ‘La société coloniale algérienne face à l’actualité internationale, 1881-1902’, Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (forthcoming).
- AHRC Grant (2012).