Raphaëlle Branche
French historian and teacher
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Raphaëlle Branche (born July 14, 1972) is a French historian, professor of modern history at Paris Nanterre University.[1] She is an expert on torture in the Algerian War, and more broadly on colonial violence and colonial wars. She is a professor of contemporary history in the University of Paris and has been since the 2019 academic year.
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Born14 July 1972
OccupationHistorian
Raphaëlle Branche | |
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Raphaëlle Branche in 2014 | |
| Born | 14 July 1972 |
| Occupation | Historian |
Life
In 2001 Branche published her doctoral thesis, La torture et l'armée pendant la Guerre d'Algérie.[2] In 2014 Branche became professor at the University of Rouen. In 2019 she became professor at Paris Nanterre University.[1]
Works
- La torture et l'armée pendant la Guerre d'Algérie: 1954-1962. Paris: Gallimard, 2001.
- La Guerre d'Algérie : une histoire apaisée?. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2005.
- (ed. with Sylvie Thénault) La France en guerre, 1954-1962: expériences métropolitaines de la guerre d'indépendance algérienne. Paris: Autremont, 2008.
- (ed. with Fabrice Virgili) Rape in wartime. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- (ed. with Xavier Bougarel and Cloé Drieu) Combatants of Muslim origin in European armies in the twentieth century: far from jihad. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
- Papa, qu’as-tu fait en Algérie?. La Découverte. 2020.