Samia Henni
Assistant Professor of History and Architecture, Cornell University
Samia Henni is an Assistant Professor at Cornell University. She is the author of the award-winning Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Northern Algeria (2017), the editor of War Zones (2018), and the curator of Discreet Violence: Architecture and the French War in Algeria (2017-19). She is working on a book provisionally titled Colonial Toxicity: The French Army in the Sahara. Her teaching and research examine the history and theory of the built environments in relation to colonialism, displacement, gender, Islam, and wars from the first European colonization to the present.
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