Andrew M. Daily

Instructor

Office: 104 Mitchell
Telephone: 901.678.2519
Fax: 901.678.2720
E-mail: amdaily@memphis.edu
Education: Ph.D., European History, Rutgers University, 2011

Fields of interest

Global and World history; Modern European and French history, particularly the 20th century; European colonial, imperial and postcolonial history; comparative histories of race; the history of the Caribbean; modern intellectual and cultural 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.

Courses taught

World and Western Civilization surveys (University of Memphis and Rutgers University); History of the Caribbean (University of Memphis and Rutgers University); Global History since 1945 (University of Memphis); Modern European Intellectual and Cultural History (University of Memphis); The Global 1960s (Rutgers University); The City in Modern Africa (Cooper Union)

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.