Andrew M. Daily

Assistant Professor of Modern French and Global History

Office: 105 Mitchell
Telephone: 901.678.2868
Fax: 901.678.2720
E-mail: amdaily@memphis.edu
Education: Ph.D., European History, Rutgers University, 2011

Fields of interest

Modern Europe; Modern France; European colonial empires; intellectual and cultural history; 20th century global history.

My dissertation at Rutgers University, “Staying French: Martiniquans and Guadeloupeans Between Empire and Independence, 1944-1973,” was overseen by Prof. Bonnie Smith, Prof. Joan W. Scott, Prof. Matt Matsuda and Prof. Renée Larrier. My research explored the end of European empire on two islands that elected to remain part of France: Martinique and Guadeloupe. Exploring how Antillean political leaders, intellectuals, students and activists navigated the fraught currents of a decolonizing France, I argue that Antilleans’ efforts to locate themselves in the Caribbean, in France and in the broader postwar world constituted an innovative and unique politico-cultural project that looked beyond the nation to formulate new conceptions of sovereignty, identity and belonging. I am currently at work on a book, tentatively titled “France and the Antillean Revolution,” which argues for the importance of Antillean intellectual production and political activism to postcolonial France.

Courses taught

Modern Britain; Modern France; Modern European Intellectual and Cultural History; World Civilizations II; The World Since 1945; Philosophy of History; Modern European Historiography; History of the Caribbean.

Recent conference presentations

• “Antillean Student Activism in Postwar Paris,” Invited Talk, “The Radical Atlantic in the Long 1960s: New Histories,” Wellesley College, 11 April 2011.
• “Psychology, Colonialism and the Concrete: Edouard Glissant and ACOMA,” Society for French Historical Studies, Tempe, Az., March 2010.
• “A Permanent Anti-Colonialism: Martiniquan Communists Theorize Decolonization,” French Colonial History Society, San Francisco, Ca., May 2009.
• “Imperial Rights, Imperial Rites: the Pantheonization of Félix Eboué and Victor Schoelcher,” Society for French Historical Studies, St. Louis, Mo., March 2009.