Anndal Narayanan

• Modern France
• Empire and decolonization
• 20th century war and society
• Terrorism and counterinsurgency

• Ph.D. in Modern European History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2016
• M.A. in Modern European History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2013
• B.A. in History and French, Goucher College, 2010

• American Historical Association
• Veterans Studies Association
• Society for French Historical Studies
• Society for Military History
• French Colonial History Society
• Western Society for French History

• “‘Ready to fight’: veterans of the Algerian War take the battle to France, 1958-1974,” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 42 (Spring 2014). http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.0642292.0042.013
• “‘Monsieur le Ministre, we’re waiting for our veterans’ card’: the Struggle for Recognition of French Combatants of the Algerian War, 1956-1974,” Perspectives on Europe 42 no. 2 (Fall 2012): 117-121.

Virginia Tech Center for the Humanities Research Associate, 2022-2023

Summer Seminar in Military History Fellowship, 2022

Doris G. Quinn Foundation Fellowship for dissertation completion, 2015

Fulbright Fellowship, France, 2013-2014

            “They tell of their return from the Algerian War”

            “The American historian on the trail of veterans of Algeria”

Council for European Studies Pre-dissertation Fellowship, 2012

“Liberté, Fraternité, Uncertainty: Interpreting the French Election.” Panel sponsored by the Alexander Hamilton Society and Duke Francophone Society, Duke University, Durham, NC, April 24, 2017. Invited speaker on the history of the National Front.

Modern Military History; The Age of Revolution and Napoleon; World War 1; World War 2; The Global History of Terrorism; History of the Modern Middle East; The Holocaust, Cold War, Modern France, French Empire in Africa