History Professor Jennifer Sessions awarded a 2015-16 fellowship at the Institut d'Etudes Avancees in Paris

Monday, April 20, 2015

Jennifer Sessions
Jennifer Sessions

University of Iowa History Professor Jennifer Sessions has been awarded a 2015-16 fellowship at the prestigious Institut d'Etudes Avancées (Institut for Advanced Studies) in Paris.

Sessions is an associate professor in the Department of History, part of the UI College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. She will spend her time in Paris working on her book, “The Margueritte Affair: Colonialism on Trial in Fin-de-Siècle France and Algeria.”

The work is based on the extensive documentation and public debate generated by a small uprising in the Algerian colonial village of Margueritte in 1901 and the trial of the accused insurgents that followed. Sessions' book will be one of the first histories of everyday life in rural colonial Algeria and of French Algeria’s place in global debates about settler colonialism in the late nineteenth century.


The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.