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Dr John Strachan

Lecturer & Director of Undergraduate Admissions

Degree: B.A., M.A. (Warwick, 2000, 2002), Ph.D. (Manchester, 2007)

Associated research centres and groups: Dynamics of Memories

Current Teaching

I contribute to HIST100, HIST300 and HIST405 and convene the following undergraduate modules:

HIST272 Empire, Race, and the French Colonial World not running in 2011/12

HIST273 Empire, Race, and the French Nation-State

HIST356 La nouvelle histoire

I hold the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice and am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Research Interests

I have published a number of papers on the cultural history of modern France and the French overseas empire (see below). More recently, my work explores the theory and the writing of history as they relate to the colonial and postcolonial worlds. I am currently writing a book on the European settlers in Algeria in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

I studied and taught at the universities of Warwick (1997-2002) and Manchester (2002-2007) before joining Lancaster in September 2007. I serve on the steering committee of the Society for the Study of French History and am a core member and research events co-ordinator for the Dynamics of Memories research group (recently awarded a major AHRC Networking Grant).

In January 2011 I convened (with Dr Laura Sandy, Keele University) The Organiser and the Victim, a colloquium on 'poor whites' and power relationships in the colonial world.

Potential Doctoral Proposals

Social, cultural and intellectual histories of modern France and the French overseas empire

French historiography in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Current Projects

Mythologies of Empire: The Shape of Culture in European Colonial Algeria (book manuscript, in preparation).

An co-edited volume on 'poor whites' in colonial history and historiography.

A study of the place of West Africa in French culture in the late-colonial and postcolonial eras.

Publications

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

2012. 'Betwixt and Between? Albert Camus and the 'Poor White' Experience in European Colonial Algeria', forthcoming

2011. 'Murder in the Desert: Soldiers, Settlers and the Flatters Expedition in the Politics and Historical Memory of European Colonial Algeria, 1830-1881', French History and Civilization. Papers from the George Rudé Seminar 4, 210-222

2007. 'The Colonial Identity of Wine: The Leakey Affair and the Franco-Algerian Order of Things', Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal 21: 2, 118-137

2006. 'The Pasteurization of Algeria?', French History 20: 3, 260-275

2004. 'Romance, Religion and the Republic: Bruno's Le Tour de la France par deux enfants', French History 18: 1, 96-118

CHAPTERS IN EDITED COLLECTIONS

2011. 'The Colonial Cosmology of Fernand Braudel' in M. Thomas (ed.), The French Colonial Mind Volume I: Mental Maps of Empire and Colonial Encounters (Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press), 72-95

2011. 'Between History, Memory and Mythology: The Algerian Education of Albert Camus' in K. Marsh and N. Frith (eds.), France's Lost Empires: Fragmentation, Nostalgia, and la fracture coloniale (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books), 55-67

REVIEW ESSAYS AND REVIEWS OF BOOKS

2011/12. 'Camus in Context' - review of Neil Foxlee, Albert Camus's 'The New Mediterranean Culture'. A Text and its Contexts (Peter Lang, 2010) and Robert Zaretsky, Albert Camus. Elements of a Life (Cornell University Press, 2010), forthcoming

2011. Spencer Segalla, The Moroccan Soul: French Education, Colonial Ethnology, and Muslim Resistance, 1912-1956 (University of Nebraska Press, 2009), H-France Review, 11: 90

2010. Graham Huggan and Ian Law (eds.), Racism, Postcolonialism, Europe (Liverpool University Press, 2009), Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies, 1: 2, 13-14

2009. Richard Keller, Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa (Chicago University Press, 2007), Modern and Contemporary France, 17: 2, 233-234

2009. Claude Liauzu, Histoire de l'anticolonialisme en France du XVIe siècle à nos jours (Armand Colin, 2007), H-France Review, 9: 42

2008. Raphaëlle Branche, La guerre d'Algérie: une histoire apaisée? (Editions du Seuil, 2005) and Sylvie Thénault, Histoire de la guerre d'indépendance algérienne (Flammarion, 2005), Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 63: 3, 658-660

2007. Annie Bleton-Ruget and Philippe Poirrier (eds.), Le temps des sciences humaines. Gaston Roupnel et les années trente (Editions Le Manuscrit-MSH de Dijon, 2006), H-France Review, 7: 130

2007. Jonathan Dewald, Lost Worlds: The Emergence of French Social History, 1815-1970 (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006), Modern and Contemporary France, 15: 3, 365-366

2007. Nabila Oulebsir, Les usages du patrimoine. Monuments, musées et politique coloniale en Algérie (1830-1930) (Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'homme, 2004), European Review of History/Revue européenne d'histoire, 14: 1, 133-134

2005. Stéphane Gerson, The Pride of Place: Local Memories and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century France (Cornell University Press, 2003), European Review of History/Revue européenne d'histoire, 12: 1, 168-169

Additional Information

Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database

John Strachan has 4 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk

Associated Keywords: Alcohol and illicit drug use, Citizenship, Colonialism, Comparative literature, Cultural theory, Discourse analysis, Environmental history, European identity, Food, Foucault, France, Historiography, History, History of medicine, Identity, Identity politics, Imperialism, Literary criticism, Memorialisation, Memory, Modernity, Nineteenth century, Political culture , Political history 18th - 20th centuries, Postcolonial theory, Psychoanalytic thought, Regional identity, Revolution, Semiotics

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