08/06/2021

The French Colonial Historical Society is pleased to announce that M'hamed Oualdi is the 2021 winner of the Heggoy Prize. You can read the book prize committee's citation for A Slave Between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa here.

The French Colonial Historical Society awards the Heggoy prize in honor of founding member, Alf Andrew Heggoy, annually in recognition of the best volume published in the preceding year dealing with the French colonial experience from 1815 to the present.

Books from any academic discipline will be considered, providing that they approach the French colonial experience from a historical perspective.

▸ French Colonial Historical Society website

▸ M'hamed Oualdi, A Slave Between Empires. A Transimperial History of North Africa, Columbia University Press, Feb. 2020.