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Dr. Sharon Vance-Eliany, an associate professor in the History and Geography Department, received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005. Her research interests include Middle Eastern and North African history, Jewish history, minority majority relations, gender relations, the role of internal inequality and the influence of external powers in the region in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her current research is on antisemitism in colonial Algeria and France in the 19th century. She has presented research on this topic at the Historical Materialism conference in London and at Hebrew University and has received research funding from the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and from Northern Kentucky University.