Dr Anna Nasser
Deakin Visiting Fellow
Anna Nasser is a historian of modern Europe and European empires. Specialised in women’s history as well as in global and imperial history, she holds a PhD in Global History and Governance from the Scuola Superiore Meridionale – University of Naples Federico II, in a co-direction with the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales of Paris. For the academic year 2025-2026, she is the Deakin Fellow at the European Studies Centre and at the Maison Française d’Oxford.
Her current research focuses on the role of women’s organisations in the process of the decolonisation in the French empire, in particular in France and French West Africa as well as other colonial settings. Her research interests are related to French colonial and imperial history, history of social rights, women’s and feminist transnational history and decolonisation in a comparative perspective.