David Prochaska

My work focuses on colonialism and visual culture, especially French colonialism in Algeria, and colonial visual culture more broadly. Among other works, I am the author, editor or co-editor of Postcards: Ephemeral Histories of Modernity (2010); Genealogies of Orientalism: History, Theory, Politics (2008); Beyond East and West: Seven Transnational Artists (2004); Renoir in Algeria (2003); and Making Algeria French: Colonialism in Bone, 1870-1920 (1990, 2004).

After studying history at Stanford and Berkeley, I taught at the University of Illinois, where I received a number of teaching awards. My work has been supported by fellowships from the National Humanities Center, Princeton Shelby Cullom Davis Center, and the University of Illinois. My research conducted in 10 countries has been funded by the American Council of Learned Societies, American Philosophical Society, as well as the University of Illinois.

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http://publish.illinois.edu/david-prochaska/