About
She holds an agrégation in history and is a lecturer. As a professor at the University of Lille 3 and the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, she teaches African history. She also researches the comparative history of colonization and the history of knowledge. She is the editor-in-chief of the journal *Outre-Mers*.
Latest publication
2023/2 No 24
Race and Bodies in Colonial Everyday Life
Monde(s)
- Edited by Clément Fabre,
- Christophe Granger
- and Isabelle Surun
Most viewed articles
Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference, by Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper
Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2011
- By Marc Aymes,
- Isabelle Surun,
- Stéphane Benoist,
- et al.
In Monde(s) (2012/2 No 2)
Introduction. Race and Bodily Difference in Colonial Situations
In Monde(s) (2023/2 No 24)
Writing Sovereignty in Invisible Ink?
Autochthonous Sovereignty and Territorial Appropriations in Nineteenth-Century Franco-African Treaties
- By Isabelle Surun,
- Translated from the French by Arby Gharibian
In Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (2014/2 69th Year)
The Discovery of Timbuktu: Deconstruction and Reconstruction of a Geographic Myth
In L’Espace géographique (2002/2 Vol. 31)
From the Text to the Field: Piecing Together Travelers’ Practices in Western Africa (1790–1880)
In Sociétés & Représentations (2006/1 No 21)
Co-authors
Articles
Care and the Body in Domestic Relations in Kenya and Southern Rhodesia (1920-1940)
In Monde(s) (2023/2 No 24)
Introduction. Race and Bodily Difference in Colonial Situations
In Monde(s) (2023/2 No 24)
Introduction. The historical trajectories of nineteenth-century African sovereignties
In Revue d’histoire du XIXe siècle (2019/2 No 59)
Writing Sovereignty in Invisible Ink?
Autochthonous Sovereignty and Territorial Appropriations in Nineteenth-Century Franco-African Treaties
- By Isabelle Surun,
- Translated from the French by Arby Gharibian
In Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (2014/2 69th Year)
Orphaned continents?
Introduction
- By Isabelle Surun
- and Hugues Tertrais
In Monde(s) (2013/1 No 3)
Debate
Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference, by Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper
Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2011
- By Marc Aymes,
- Isabelle Surun,
- Stéphane Benoist,
- et al.
In Monde(s) (2012/2 No 2)
Exploring Africa in the 19th Century: A Precolonial History in the Light of Postcolonial Studies
In Revue d’histoire du XIXe siècle (2006/1 No 32)
Issues
Race and Bodies in Colonial Everyday Life
Monde(s) (2023/2 No 24)- Edited by Clément Fabre,
- Christophe Granger
- and Isabelle Surun