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.
Publications
Courses Taught
- HIST 1210 Intro to European History Since 1648
- HIST 3320 Europe Since 1945
- HIST 3340 France Since 1789
- HIST 3400 Postcolonial Europe
- HIST 4720 The Cold War
- HIST 4910 Problems in History - Europe
- HIST 4920 Problems in History - World
- HIST 5500 Historical Methods & Philosophy of History
- INST 1010 Introduction to International Studies
- INST 2050 European Studies
- INST 3240 Decolonization
Education
Ph.D. History, University of Chicago (2018)