Dr. Emily Fransee is a Croft Assistant Professor of Modern French History in Global Content in the Department of History and Croft Institute for International Studies 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.
Education
Ph.D. History, University of Chicago (2018)