The 2024 edition of the Malcolm Bowie Prize has been awarded to Danielle Beaujon, holder of the Albert Hirschman: The passions of Identity between Europe and the Mediterranean – Sciences Po Aix/Iméra chair 2024-2025.

Photo portrait de Danielle Beaujon, titulaire de la Chaire Sciences Po Aix / Iméra – Albert Hirschman : Les passions identitaires entre Europe et Méditerranée.

The Algerian Enemy Within: Policing the Black Market in Marseille and Algiers, 1939–1950 

Danielle Beaujon has been awarded a prize for her article “The Algerian Enemy Within: Policing the Black Market in Marseille and Algiers, 1939-1950”, published in the journal French Historical Studies on May 1st, 2024.

Citation: Beaujon, D. (2024). The Algerian enemy within. French Historical Studies, 47 (2), 289‑318.

About the Malcolm Bowie Prize

The Malcolm Bowie Prize is awarded each year by the Society for French Studies, for the best article published in the preceding year by an early-career researcher in the broader discipline of French Studies.

The Society for French Studies (SFS) is the oldest scholarly association for French Studies in the UK and Ireland. It aims to promote teaching and research in French Studies within higher education.

About Danielle Beaujon

Danielle Beaujon is an Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Justice and History at the University of Illinois Chicago with a double major in History and French Studies. As a historian, her current research focuses on policing, race, and power in a global context, examining the intimate and adversarial relationship between police and North Africans in a connected Franco-Mediterranean world.