Emily Fransee

Croft Assistant Professor of Modern French History in Global Context

• Faculty
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• Email:

  fransee@olemiss.edu

• Office Location:

  310 Bishop Hall

• Phone:

  662-915-7148

Dr. Emily Fransee is a Croft Assistant Professor of Modern French History in Global Content in the Department of History at the University of Mississippi.

Research Interests

• Political and cultural historian of colonialism, gender, and race in Europe, France, and the francophone world in the twentieth century.  

• In-progress book manuscript is a comparative history of women’s right to vote in France and its former colonies. Entitled Without Distinction: Gender and Suffrage in the Postwar French Empire, the book examines how people inside and outside of the colonial administration sought to challenge or maintain the limits of women’s citizenship. This highlights the enduring entanglement of democratic and imperial political systems as well as the importance of both gender and race for understanding European citizenships, elections, and forms of representation within a global framework. 

• New research project focuses on the historical and contemporary connections between science fiction and imperialism, showing how colonialism has inspired and inhabited the genre of science fiction and, conversely, how science fiction has helped to mold and give expression to a range of imperialist and anti-colonial ideologies. 

Biography

Dr. Fransee received her PhD in History at the University of Chicago in 2018 and became a full member of the History and Croft faculty at the University of Mississippi in 2021. Before joining the University, she taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Publications

Articles:
“I May Vote Like All Women”: Protest, Gender, and Suffrage in French Senegal, 1944–1945, French Colonial History 20 (2021): 119-144

“Mistress of a New World: Early Science Fiction in Europe’s ‘Age of Discovery,’” The Public Domain Review (2018)

Courses Taught

• INST 101 Introduction to International Studies
• INST 205 European Studies
• INST 324 Decolonization
• HST 121 Intro to European History since 1648
• HST 332 Europe since 1945
• HST 334 France since 1789
• HST 340 Postcolonial Europe
• HST 472 The Cold War
• HST 491 Problems in History- Europe
• HST 492 Problems in History- World
• HST 550 Historical Methods & Philosophy of Hist
• HST 698 Special Topics

• Office, Department or Center

  Department of History

• School

  College of Liberal Arts

• Campuses

  Oxford

• Areas of Expertise

  Colonialism, gender, and race in modern European and international history, focusing in particular on France and the francophone world.