Jennifer Onyedum

 Professor Onyedum specializes in modern African history, particularly the Maghribi countries. Her research and teaching interests focus on decolonization, political legitimacy, and international organizations. She is currently on leave (fall 2012) working on completion of her first book manuscript, Claiming Sovereignty of Algeria: Health Care, Humanitarianism, and International Organizations, 1945-1962, which reexamines one of the most violent liberation struggles and shows how nationalist leaders and colonial officials used post World War II neutral and universal discourses about health and humanitarianism against one another to claim sovereignty of the country.

Professor Onyedum has received several fellowships including an Andrew W. Mellon fellowship in Humanistic Studies and awards from the Social Science Research Council, the American Institute for Maghrib Studies, and the National History Center. Before joining the History Department at City College, she taught African History at Lehman College.

 B.A., Brown University

M.A., PhD, Princeton University

 Modern Africa

Revolution and Violence in Algeria

Humanitarianism and Conflict in Africa

Medicine, Health, and Healing in Africa

Precolonial Africa

 Decolonization, Humanitarianism and Human Rights, Public Health, International Organizations

 Claiming Sovereignty of Algeria: Health Care, Humanitarianism, and International Organizations, 1945-1962, (book manuscript in progress)

"Humanize the Conflict: Algerian health care organizations and propaganda campaigns, 1954-1962,” (forthcoming, November 2012), International Journal of Middle East Studies.

Book Review: Ali Boumendjel: Une affaire française, une histoire algérienne, by Malika Rahal, H-France Review H-France Review Vol. 11 (September 2010), No. 204