Danielle Beaujon, PhD
Assistant Professor
History (Modern Europe, France, North Africa, Colonialism, Policing)
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BSB 4066
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About
Danielle Beaujon received her PhD with distinction from New York University's joint program in History and French Studies. Danielle is a historian with broad research interests in policing, race, and power in a global context.
Danielle’s first monograph, Criminalizing the Casbahs: Policing North Africans in Marseille and Algiers, 1918-1954, was released with Cornell University Press in 2025. The book examines the intimate and oppositional relationship of police officers and North Africans in a connected Franco-Mediterranean world. Based on archival research in these two port cities, she argues that the racialized policing of North Africans in Marseille and Algiers built not just on visual codes of race, but on the way that police practice mapped ideas of race onto the space of the city.
Danielle's research has received support from the Institute for Advanced Studies Aix-Marseille (Iméra), the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, the American Institute for Maghreb Studies, the Robert Holmes Award for African Scholarship, the Michel Beaujor Research Fellowship, the Remarque Institute-École Normale Supérieure Fellowship, and the US Department of Education's Foreign Language and Areas Studies Fellowship.
Her article "Policing Colonial Migrants" was awarded the Coordinating Council for Women in History's Nupur Chaudhuri Prize, recognizing the best article by a first-time author.
Her article “The Algerian Enemy Within: Policing the Black Market in Marseille and Algiers, 1939-1950,” published with French Historical Studies, won the 2025 Malcolm Bowie Prize for the best article published by an early-career researcher in French Studies and the Urban History Association's 2025 Arnold Hirsch Award for best article in a scholarly journal.
Selected Publications
Monographs:
Criminalizing the Casbahs: Policing North Africans in Marseille and Algiers, 1918–1954. Cornell University Press, 2025.
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
“The Algerian Enemy Within: Policing the Black Market in Marseille and Algiers, 1939–1950.” French Historical Studies 47, no. 2 (May 2024): 289-318.
“The Chaouch of Marseille: Metropolitan Intermediaries and Colonial Control, 1928-1945.” French Politics, Culture & Society 41, no. 1 (Spring 2023): 1–21.
“‘Purely Artistic’: Police Power and Popular Culture in Colonial Algerian Theater.” Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 46, no. 2 (Summer 2020): 89-109.
“Policing Colonial Migrants: The Brigade Nord-Africaine in Paris, 1923-1944,” French Historical Studies 42, no. 4 (October 2019): 655-680.”