Associate Professor Saliha Belmessous
Licence, Université Lyon III-Jean Moulin; MA Université Lyon III and Université de Montréal; Ph.D. Histoire et Civilisations, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris).
I research and teach the global history of empires. I am interested in the political and legal history of colonisation; the imperial experiences of colonised peoples; and the dynamics of cross-cultural encounters -- these are all issues that have an impact upon contemporary problems. My current research reassesses the legal and political worlds in which European and non-European societies interacted and challenges recent evaluations of the history of international law. I am examining, more ...
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- Research Activities
- Engagement
- British Academy Global Professorship Programme, 2023-2027. Topic: Legal Encounters at the Origins of International Law.
- Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, 2015-2022. Topic: The engagement of colonised peoples with empire (Algeria, 1830-1962)
- Future Fellowship, Australian Research Council, 2011-2015. Topic: Indigenous land claims in historical context
- Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2006-2008. Topic: Assimilation and Empire
- British Academy Global Professorship, University of Oxford, 2023-2027
- Visiting Professorship, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, Lent 2023
- Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, 2015-2019
- 2014 UNSW Dean's Award for Best Monograph for Assimilation and Empire: Uniformity in French and British Colonies, 1541-1954 (Oxford University Press)
- Visiting Professorship, Université Paris 8, April 2014
- 2013 New South Wales Premier's General History Prize for Assimilation and Empire: Uniformity in French and British Colonies, 1541-1954 (Oxford University Press)
- Future Fellowship, Australian Research Council, 2011-2015
- National and State Libraries Australasian Honorary Fellowship, 2011
- US Studies Centre Research Grant, 2010
- University of Sydney Bridging Fellowship, 2009
- Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2006-2008
- Georges Lurcy Fellowship, 1995
- Lavoisier Program of Excellence Fellowship, 1994
- Fulbright Fellowship, 1994
Open access publications
'What is a colonial treaty? Questioning the visible and the invisible in European and non-European legal negotiations', Comparative Legal History, 2022, https://www.tandfonline.com/share/6QKSKYQWIQNT7IXUAEAA?target=10.1080/2049677X.2022.2131525
‘Politics and Gender Bias in the Production of Historical Knowledge: Reassessing Muslim Loyalism during the Algerian War of Independence’, Hespéris-Tamuda, 2021.
‘Commemorating French Colonialism in Australia: On the Lapérouse Monument in Sydney’, History Australia, 2020.
'Emancipation within Empire: An Algerian Alternative during the Decolonisation Era’, History Workshop Journal, 2019.
'Greatness and Decadence in French America', Renaissance Studies, 2012.
‘Assimilation and Racialism in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Colonial Policy’, The American Historical Review, 2005.
‘Être français en Nouvelle-France: Identité française et identité coloniale aux dix- septième et dix-huitième siècles’ (trans. Being French in New France: French Identity and Colonial Identity in the 17th and 18th century), French Historical Studies, 2004.
Member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts (2019-2021)
Member of the European Science Foundation (ESF) College of Expert Reviewers (2019-2021)
External Reviewer for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Assessor for the European Research Council