Natalya Vince

Natalya Vince is a Senior Lecturer in North African and French Studies at the University of Portsmouth. The focus of her research is modern Algerian and French history. She is the co-editor of the edited collection France and the Mediterranean (with Emmanuel Godin, Peter Lang, 2011) and is currently preparing the manuscript of a monograph, provisionally entitled Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, Memory, and Gender in Algeria, 1954-2012 (under contract with Manchester University Press). She was recently an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Early Career Fellow, and is currently a lead member of a British Academy sponsored UK-Africa Academic Partnership, exploring oral history methodologies through investigating the participation of Senegalese soldiers in the French army during the Algerian War.