Rate My Professor Emmanuelle Saada

Saada is the author of Les enfants de la colonie: les métis de l'Empire français entre sujétion et citoyenneté (La Découverte, 2007), which received the Auguste Pavie Prize and was a finalist for the Jean Zay Prize, and its English translation Empire’s Children: Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies (University of Chicago Press, 2012), awarded the Herbert Feis Award for the best book in international history by the American Historical Association, the Chercheur sédentaire Prize of the Fondation des Sciences Humaines, and the Louis Marin Prize of the Société française d’histoire du droit. Her scholarship has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the Ford Foundation. She has published numerous articles on colonial law, culture, politics, and reflections on the French social sciences, including contributions to Civilizing Emotions: Concepts in Nineteenth Century Asia and Europe (Oxford University Press, 2015). Currently, Saada is completing a historiographical book on French and European colonization conceived as a history of the present and a project on law and violence in Algeria and France during the nineteenth century. She serves on the editorial board of Romanic Review and was honored with the insignia of the Order of Arts and Letters by France.