Emily Marker joined the faculty in the Department of History at Rutgers-Camden in January 2017. Her research and teaching interests are in postcolonial Europe, francophone Africa, race, religion, youth, and global history. She is currently working on her first monograph, tentatively titled, Black France, White Europe: Decolonizing and Europeanizing Education in the Postwar Era. This study explores how public and private programs to promote solidarity between French and African youth collided with transnational efforts to make young people in Western Europe feel European after World War II. Based on several years of archival research in France, Senegal, Italy and Belgium, Black France, White Europe locates these competing generational projects at the center of the entangled history of African decolonization and early European integration.
In addition to her research and teaching, Dr. Marker works on initiatives for social justice and equity in the academy. A co-founder of the Race and Pedagogy Working Group at the University of Chicago, she continues to organize workshops, facilitations, and community classes on power, privilege, and inclusive teaching. She is currently a member of the Chancellor’s Committee for Institutional Equity and Diversity at Rutgers-Camden, Rutgers’ Center for African Studies, and the Governing Council of the Western Society for French History.
~PUBLICATIONS~
~ UNDERGRADUATE COURSES~
Western Civilization II
Racism and Antiracism in Europe since 1945
~ GRADUATE COURSES~
The Craft of History
The Global Nineteenth Century
Empire & Decolonization