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Benjamin Claude Brower received his Ph.D. from
Cornell University in 2005 where he specialized in the
intellectual and social history of Modern France and
Algeria. He joined Texas A&M in 2005 where he teaches
courses on the modern Mediterranean world. He is currently
working on two book projects. The first, A Desert Named
Peace: French Empire and Violence in the Algerian Sahara,
1840-1900, examines colonial violence. His second project,
entitled Policing Piety: The Hajj in Colonial Algeria,
1830-1945, will explore the policies of the French colonial
state regulating Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy
Places and the strategies Algerians used to fulfill their
religious obligations. His broader research interests
include questions of religion and politics, immigration and
emigration, memory, and historical trauma. |
