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.