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Berny SEBE

Birmingham University

Berny Sèbe is senior lecturer in colonial and postcolonial studies at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom). He holds a doctorate in imperial and Commonwealth history from the University of Oxford. His career to date has  been dedicated to the comparative study of European colonial empires since the nineteenth century, and in particular their influence on the contemporary world and its cultures. His key publications include Heroic Imperialists in Africa: the Promotion of British and French colonial heroes (1870-1939) (2013 and 2015) and Echoes of Empire: Identity, Memory and Colonial Legacies (co-ed., 2015) and Decolonising Imperial Heroes: Cultural Legacies of the British and French Empires (co-ed., 2016). He is currently working with Alexander Morrison (New College, Oxford) the volume Empires of Emptiness: Fortresses of the Steppe and the Sahara which examines strategies of colonial control and administration in arid spaces, around the case studies of the Russian conquest of Central Asia and French expansion into the Sahara desert. Berny Sèbe is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Geographical Society and of the Higher Education Academy.