Silvia Marsans-Sakly is an Associate Professor of the Practice in History and Islamic World at Fairfield University. She focuses on the modern history of the Maghreb, particularly Tunisia, with research interests in post-colonial memory, state-society relations, and East-West cartographies of power and memory.
A returned Peace Corps volunteer stationed in Tunisia, Dr. Marsans-Sakly earned her Ph.D. in Middle Eastern and Modern European History from New York University. Her publications include peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and the forthcoming monograph History, Power, and Memory in Tunisia, 1864-2011 (IB Tauris). Her next project explores the intersections between Cuba, the Arab world, and the Maghreb. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) and Fulbright and received Fairfield University’s Distinguished Teaching Award.