Faculty and Staff
David Prochaska
Associate Professor of History
Professor Prochaska specializes in history and postcolonial studies, especially colonial visual culture. He has published Beyond East and West: Seven Transnational Artists (University of Washington Press, 2004), the catalogue for an exhibition he co-curated that will travel through 2005; and Making Algeria French: Colonialism in Bone, 1870-1920 (Cambridge University Press, 1990, paperback 2004). Another book (co-edited with Terry Burke) on orientalism and history is forthcoming. His articles include "History as Literature, Literature as History: Cagayous of Algiers," American Historical Review, 101 (1996), and more recently “The Other Algeria” in Roger Benjamin, Renoir and Algeria, exhibition catalogue (Yale University Press, 2003); and for a special issue on terrorism and history “That Was Then, This Is Now: The Battle of Algiers and After,” Radical History Review, no. 85: 133-49 (2003). He majored in history at Stanford and received his doctorate from Berkeley.