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Join the Department of History in The Leopold Room on Tuesday, October 10th from 4:00pm - 5:30pm.

The EU's precursor named Algeria, then part of the French empire, as falling within its legislative regime. How did Algeria’s years as a “part of” Europe come about and why did that status last after independence? Algeria’s long and uneven relationship with unified Europe demonstrates that the Europe of Brussels today was not the only possible outcome for postwar European unification projects. Its connection to integrated Europe forces a reconsideration of the EEC’s history and, by extension, a reevaluation of the meaning of integrated Europe itself.

Megan Brown is Associate Professor of Modern European History at Swarthmore College, with a focus on 20th-century France, European integration, and empire. She is the author of The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community (Harvard, 2022). Her teaching and research interests include post-World War II politics, decolonization, the history of France and Algeria, and questions of citizenship. She received her PhD from the Graduate Center, CUNY.