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Fragmented Sovereignties in the Colonial Age: ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazāʾirī (1808-1883) and the Making of an “Arab Hero” (Project funded by the SNSF)

Noureddine Amara

Noureddine Amara, Dr.

  • SNF project staff
Phone
+41 44 634 07 33
Room number
RAA-H-27

Curriculum vitae

Accademic education and training

2019  PhD in History at Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne University. Dissertation: "The Making of France in Algeria: Algerian Emigration, Battle of Denomination and Nationality Conflicts in the World (1830-to the 1930s)"
2003-2004  Institut Universitaire de formation des maîtres (IUFM) de Lille: CAPES in History and Geography (High school teaching certificate)
2002-2003  Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA [U.S. equivalent: PhD Qualifying Exam]), History, Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut Cambrésis. Thesis: "A History of Algerian Military Service in the Colonial French Army, 1911-1918"
2001-2002  MA, History, Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut Cambrésis. Dissertation: "Torture in the Algerian War: Oral History and Contemporary Debates"

Employment, Fellowships and grants

2023  Scuola Superiore Meridionale - Napoli: Research Fellow in the program Global History and Governance
2021-2022  Yale Law School: Research Fellow at the Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization
2016  Comparative African Studies. E.G.E. – Rabat, Morocco: Research Fellowship for one-month stay in Rabat
2012  Doctoral Mobility Program - Alliance Program. Columbia University, United States: Grant for a three-month period at Columbia University
2012  IFEA – Istanbul, Turkey: Grant for archival research at the Basbakanlik Osmanli Arsivleri
2010  Casa de Velázquez, Madrid: Grant for archival research at the Archivo General de la Administracion, Alcala de Henares
2009-2011  Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain (IRMC), Tunis: Doctoral Fellowship
2008-2009  Agency for French Education Abroad (AEFE): Professor of History and Geography at the Alexander Dumas International High School, Algiers, Algeria
2007  American Institute for Maghreb Studies. AIMS- CEMA, Oran: One month grant at the American Center in Tangiers
2004-2008  French High Schools System: Professor of History and Geography (Roubaix, Hazbrouck, Valenciennes)

Publications, conference and workshop presentations

Publication list Noureddine Amara: Publications etc Amara.pdf (PDF, 292 KB)

Research and teching interests

  • North Africa and Middle East during the Ottoman Empire and the colonial period (19th-20th centuries)
  • History of migration, nationality and citizenship
  • Colonial law and Literature
  • Archives and historiographies in Mediterranean History
  • Colonial Legacies, Justice and Reparation