Ian Coller

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Professor, History
School of Humanities
Ph.D., University of Melbourne, 2006, History
Phone: History Department: 949-824-6521
Email: icoller@uci.edu
University of California, Irvine
Mail Code: 3275
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
Modern France, French Revolution & Empire, Modern Europe (c.1700-1900), Muslim Mediterranean
Publications
Ian Coller & Gillian Weiss (ed) “Framing Muslims in the Making of France, 1300–1800,” French Historical Studies 47, 4 (2024)
“Policing Muslims under the Directory: Republican Universalism and the Edicts of Pluviôse 1799” French Historical Studies 47, 4 (2024): 591-609
“Zamor: Race, intimité et politique en Révolution” in Karine Rance and Eric Saunier (eds) Race et Révolution française (Hémisphères, 2024) 81-102
“Arab France from Revolution to Empire” in Matthias Middell ed. French Globalization Projects (Brill: 2024) 189-202.
“The French Revolution Comes to the Indian Ocean: Deportation, Slavery, and Empire in Anjouan” in Eric Tagliocozzo and David Powers (eds), Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies (Cornell University Press, 2023) 95-107.
“The Jacobin and the Mameluke: Islam, Race and Political Culture at the End of Empire,” in Thomas Dodman and Aurélien Lignereux (eds) From the Napoleonic Empire to the Age of Empire: Empire after the Emperor (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023) 67-87.
“Possibles Citoyens : Étrangers originaires du monde musulman et hospitalité révolutionnaire sous la « Terreur »” La Révolution Française 22 (2022) http://journals.openedition.org/lrf/6416
Muslims and Citizens: Islam, Politics and the French Revolution (Yale University Press, 2020)
“What can a Muslim citizen tell us about the French Revolution?” French History and Civilization 9 (2020) pp. 45-50
Ian Coller (ed). The Cultural History of Western Empires 4: Empires of the Enlightenment 1650-1800 (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Arab France: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe 1798-1831 (University of California Press, 2010)
(with Natacha Coquery & Richard Flamein) “Ce que les cultures matérielles peuvent apporter à l’historiographie de la Révolution française,” Annales historiques de la Révolution Française 383 (2016): 1-20

“African Liberalism in the Age of Empire? Hassuna D’Ghies and Liberal Constitutionalism in North Africa” Modern Intellectual History 12 (2015):1–25

“Rousseau’s Turban: Entangled Encounters of Europe and Islam in the Age of Enlightenment ” Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques 40 (2014): 56-77

“Citizen Chawich: Arabs, Islam and Rights in the French Revolution” French History and Civilization 5 (2014): 42-52
“Ottomans on the Move: Hassuna D’Ghies and the “New Ottomanism” of the 1830s” in Constantina Zanou & Maurizio Isabella (eds) Mediterranean Diaspora: Politics and Ideas in the Long 19th Century (Bloomsbury, 2016), 52-75.

“Barbary and Revolution: France and North Africa in the Revolutionary Era” in Patricia Lorcin & Todd Shepard (ed.) French Mediterraneans: Transnational and Imperial Histories (University of Nebraska Press, 2016), 97–116.

“The French Revolution and the Islamic World of the Middle East and North Africa” in Alan Forrest and Matthias Middell (eds) The Routledge Companion to the French Revolution in World History (Routledge, 2015), 117-134.

“The Republic of Marseille and the Making of Imperial France” in Philip Whalen and Patrick Young (eds) Place and Locality in Modern France (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), 3-14.

“The Revolutionary Mediterranean” in Peter McPhee (ed.) A Companion to the French Revolution (Blackwell Wiley, 2013), 419-434.

“Egypt in the French Revolution” in Lynn Hunt, Suzanne Desan & William Nelson (eds) The French Revolution in Global Perspective (Cornell University Press, 2013) 115-131.
“Empires from the Viewpoint of the Colonised” in John MacKenzie (ed.) Encyclopedia of Empire (Wiley, 2016)
Last updated
03/10/2025