Meet the Team

Conference Participants at the Centre de la Recherche Ouest Africaine (WARC), Dakar

Professor Tony Chafer

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Professor Chafer is the Director of the university's Centre for European and International Studies Research. His key research interests are in French relations with sub-Saharan Africa in the colonial and post-colonial periods. He has worked in both west and east Africa and recently completed a British Academy-funded three-year research project with Gordon Cumming on Anglo-French cooperation in Africa. He has published several recent articles on this topic, plus a book From Rivalry to Partnership? New Approaches to the Challenges of Africa (Ashgate 2011). His monograph, The End of Empire in French West Africa (2002), will shortly be published in French.

Full research profile in the Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR): Tony Chafer

Dr Natalya Vince 

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Dr Vince is the MA course leader. She is is researching modern Algerian and French history, with particular focus on oral history, gender studies, and the relationship between history, memory and the construction of identities in both Europe and Africa. Recent field research includes interviewing Algerian women who participated in the War of Independence (1954-1962) about their experiences in post-colonial Algeria and their memories of the conflict, and carrying out a case study with students at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (teacher training college) in Algiers on the teaching of history and the transmission of memory.  She is currently a lead member of a three-year British Academy sponsored UK-Africa Academic Partnership, investigating the participation of Senegalese soldiers in the French army during the Algerian War. 

Full research profile in the Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR): Natalya Vince

Article on the January 2012 hostage incident in Algeria: In Amenas – a history of silence, not a history of violence

Dr Tamsin Bradley

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Dr Bradley is an applied social anthropologist working in international development. She has published a number of books and articles most recently a volume documenting the life stories of Black Minority Ethnic women in the UK Women Violence and Tradition: Taking FGM and other practices to a Secular State. (2011, London: Zed Press).

Full research profile in the Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR): Tamsin Bradley