Danielle Beaujon

Enseignante-Chercheuse, Professeure des universités, Aix-Marseille Université
Accueillie à l'IREMAM dans le cadre programme Safe Place For Science

Mmsh, IREMAM : bureau A256
Contact : danielle.beaujon[at]univ-amu.fr

Recherche

Discipline : Histoire, Criminologie
Terrain : Algérie, France
Membre du pôle Histoire des mondes arabes et musulmans

Thèmes de recherche

- Histoire de la police coloniale
- Histoire de l’administration coloniale en Algérie
- Histoire de la migration Nord-Africaine en France

Parcours professionnel

Depuis 2023 : Assistant Professor, Departments of Criminology, Law & Justice and History, Univeristy of Illinois Chicago.
2021 - 2023 : Postdoctorante dans le programme “Bridge to Faculty”, University of Illinois Chicago.
2021 : Docteure en histoire et études françaises. 
Sujet de thèse : Controlling the Casbah: Policing North Africans in Marseille & Algiers, 1920-1950 (Sous la direction de Herrick Chapman).

Coordination de projets

À l’IREMAM, responsable du projet « Violence et projet colonial : la violence incarnée dans un monde (post)colonial » (2026-2029).

Publications

Ouvrages

Criminalizing the Casbahs: Policing North Africans in Marseille and Algiers, 1918-1954. (Cornell University Press, June 2025). 
- Cet ouvrage a reçu le 2026 prix L. Carl Brown de l’American Institute for Maghrib Studies.
- Il a également reçu une mention honorable pour le 2026 Lynn Hollen Lees Prize de l’Urban History Association.

Chapitres d’ouvrages

À paraître. “A Tale of Three Mohameds: North African Police Agents and the Logics of Empire” in Between State and Society: Mediating Power in African Governance, Youssef Mniali ed. (Central European University & Amsterdam University Press)

“The Peddlers and the Police: Colonial Control and Resistance in Algiers” in The Imperial Entanglements of Policing, Julian Go & Stuart Schrader, eds. (Duke University Press, November 2026).

Articles dans des revues à comité de lecture

À paraître. “Unruly Soldiers, Imperfect Intermediaries: Tirailleurs Sénégalais in 20th Century Algiers”, Settler Colonial Studies.

“‘Encore Les Arabes’: Fait Divers and the Creation of the ‘Arab Criminal’”, L’Esprit Créateur 66, no. 2 (Summer 2026): 38-51. 

“Policing the “Poisonous Herb”: Pleasure, Politics, and Kif in Colonial Algiers”, The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs (Spring 2026). 

“(Re)Building Algiers: Racial Segregation in the “Republican” Empire”, In Capture, Connect, Shift, Sabine Mohamed and Jatin Dua. Cultural Anthropology (February 2026): 42-65.

“The Algerian Enemy Within: Policing the Black Market in Marseille and Algiers, 1939–1950”, French Historical Studies 47, no. 2 (May 2024): 289-318.
- Cet article a été récompensé par le Arold Hirsch Award de l’Urban History Association et le Malcolm Bowie Prize du Society for French Studies.
                        
“The Chaouch of Marseille: Metropolitan Intermediaries and Colonial Control, 1928-1945”, French Politics, Culture & Society 41, no. 1 (Spring 2023): 1–21.

“‘Purely Artistic’: Police Power and Popular Culture in Colonial Algerian Theater”, Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 46, no. 2 (Summer 2020): 89-109.

"Policing Colonial Migrants: The Brigade Nord-Africaine in Paris, 1923-1944" French Historical Studies 42, no. 4 (October 2019): 655-680.
- Cet article a été récompensé par le Nupur Chaudhuri Prize du Coordinating Council for Women in History

Recensions

Making Space: Neighbors, Officials, and North African Migrants in the Suburbs of Paris and Lyon by Melissa Byrnes. Journal of Modern History 98, no. 1 (March 2026): 229-231. 

Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934–1950, by Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Aomar Boum, eds. H-War, H-Net Reviews (March 2025). 

“Creating the “Suspect”: New Works on Policing France”, Contemporary European History (February 2025): 1-11.

Empire on the Seine: The Policing of North Africans in Paris, 1925-1975, by Amit Prakash, History: Review of New Books 51, no. 3 (June 2023): 57-59.

“When Algeria Was Europe?” Review of The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community by Megan Brown. Toqueville 21 (February 2023).