Introduction

Emmanuelle Saada is associate professor of French and Romance Philology in the Department of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University. She received her academic training in France, first at the École Normale Supérieure in sociology and history and later at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), where she received her PhD in 2001. Her first book, Les enfants de la colonie: les métis de l’Empire français entre sujétion et citoyenneté, was published in 2007 by La Découverte. She is currently working on a book on the historiography of European colonialisms. She has also published numerous articles on colonial law, culture and politics as well as epistemological reflections on the French social sciences. Her teaching focuses on the history and sociology of immigration and colonization.