Associate Professor Saliha Belmessous
Associate Professor

Associate Professor Saliha Belmessous

Licence, Université Lyon III-Jean Moulin; MA Université Lyon III and Université de Montréal; Ph.D. Histoire et Civilisations, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris).

Arts,Design & Architecture
School of Humanities & Languages

I research and teach the global history of empires. I am interested in the political and legal history of colonisation; the imperial experiences of colonised peoples; and the dynamics of cross-cultural encounters -- these are all issues that have an impact upon contemporary problems. My current research reassesses the legal and political worlds in which European and non-European societies interacted and challenges recent evaluations of the history of international law. I am examining, more particularly, the ways in which diplomatic negotiations between European and non-European polities were a matrix for a hybrid law of nations.
Phone
9385 2362
E-mail
s.belmessous@unsw.edu.au
Location
333 Morven Brown
  • Books | 2023
    2023, The Cambridge History of International Law. Volume III: International Law in Africa, the Americas and Oceania, Belmessous S; Hickford M; Van Hulle I, (eds.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
    Books | 2015
    Belmessous S, 2015, Empire by Treaty: Negotiating European Expansion, 1600-1900, Belmessous S, (ed.), Oxford University Press, New York, https://global.oup.com/academic/product/empire-by-treaty-9780199391783?cc=au&lang=en&
    Books | 2013
    Belmessous S, 2013, Assimilation and Empire: Uniformity in French and British Colonies, 1541-1954, Original, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199579167.do
    Books | 2013
    Belmessous S, 2013, Assimilation and Empire, Oxford University Press, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199579167.001.0001
    Books | 2012
    Belmessous S, 2012, Native Claims: Indigenous Law against Empire, 1500-1920, Belmessous S, (ed.), Paperback edition in 2014, Oxford University Press, New York, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794850.001.0001
    Books | 1999
    Belmessous S, 1999, D'un préjugé culturel à un préjugé racial: la politique indigène de la France au Canada, Original, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, Lille
  • Book Chapters | 2023
    Belmessous S, 2023, 'International Law in the Americas to 1800', in Belmessous S; Hickford M; Van Hulle I (ed.), The Cambridge History of International Law. Volume III: International Law in Africa, the Americas and Oceania, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Belmessous S, 2022, 'L’Empire au nom de l’assimilation', in Singaravélou P (ed.), Colonisations. Notre histoire, Le Seuil, Paris
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Belmessous S, 2022, 'Rights and indigenous claims in settler colonies', in Edelstein D; Pitts J (ed.), The Cambridge History of Rights. Volume 4: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Belmessous S, 2022, 'Rights in the Seventeenth-Century French Empire', in Fitzmaurice A; Hammersley R (ed.), The Cambridge History of Rights. Volume 2: Rights in the Early-Modern Period, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Belmessous S, 2020, 'La négociation diplomatique comme matrice d’un droit hybride au XVIIIe siècle', in Schnakenbourg E; Ternat F (ed.), Une diplomatie des lointains: la France face à la mondialisation des rivalités internationales, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes, pp. 69 - 88, http://www.pur-editions.fr/detail.php?idOuv=5040
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Belmessous S, 2018, 'The Treaty of Waitangi in Historical Context', in Hickford M; Jones C (ed.), Indigenous Peoples and the State: International Perspectives on the Treaty of Waitangi, edn. 1, Routledge, London, pp. 77 - 93, https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351240369/chapters/10.4324/9781351240376-11
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Belmessous S, 2015, 'The Paradox of an Empire by Treaty', in Belmessous S (ed.), Empire by Treaty: Negotiating European Expansion, 1600-1900, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 1 - 18, http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199391783.do
    Book Chapters | 2015
    Belmessous S, 2015, 'The Tradition of Treaty-Making in Australian History', in Belmessous S (ed.), Empire by Treaty: Negotiating European Expansion, 1600-1900, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 186 - 213, http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199391783.do
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Belmessous S, 2012, 'The problem of indigenous claim making in colonial history', in Belmessous S (ed.), Native Claims: Indigenous Law against Empire, 1500-1920, edn. Original, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 3 - 18, https://global.oup.com/academic/product/native-claims-9780199794850?cc=au&lang=en&
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Belmessous S, 2012, 'Wabanaki versus French and English claims in north-eastern North America c. 1715', in Belmessous S (ed.), Native Claims: Indigenous Law against Empire, 1500-1920, edn. Original, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 107 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794850.003.0005
  • Journal articles | 2021
    Belmessous S, 2021, 'Politics and Gender Bias in the Production of Historical Knowledge: Reassessing Muslim Loyalism during the Algerian War of Independence', Hespéris-Tamuda, vol. 56, pp. 211 - 232, http://www.hesperis-tamuda.com/2021fasicule2/11.pdf
    Journal articles | 2020
    Belmessous S, 2020, 'Boundaries of the International: Law and Empire.', AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, vol. 125, pp. 195 - 196, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhz1261
    Journal articles | 2020
    Belmessous S, 2020, 'Commemorating French Colonialism in Australia: On the Lapérouse Monument in Sydney', History Australia, vol. 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2020.1796499
    Journal articles | 2019
    Belmessous S, 2019, 'Emancipation within Empire: an Algerian Alternative during the Era of Decolonization', History Workshop Journal, vol. 88, pp. 153 - 179, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbz030
    Journal articles | 2018
    Belmessous S, 2018, 'Indigenous and European laws of nations in North America to 1763', Trajectories, vol. 29, pp. 2 - 5, http://chs.asa-comparative-historical.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Trajectories-Winter-2018.pdf
    Journal articles | 2015
    Belmessous S, 2015, 'Nobility Lost: French and Canadian Martial Cultures, Indians, and the End of New France.', JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY, vol. 102, pp. 222 - 223, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav183
    Journal articles | 2012
    Belmessous S, 2012, 'Greatness and Decadence in French America', Renaissance Studies, vol. 26, pp. 559 - 579, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-4658.2012.00820.x
    Journal articles | 2009
    Belmessous S, 2009, 'Living with Ambiguity: Integrating an African Elite in French and Portuguese Africa, 1930-61', JOURNAL OF IMPERIAL AND COMMONWEALTH HISTORY, vol. 37, pp. 495 - 497, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03086530903157763
    Journal articles | 2006
    Belmessous S, 2006, 'Le monument Lapérouse à Sydney ou l'histoire d'un mythe colonial franco-australien', Outre-Mers. Revue d'Histoire: explorations, colonisations, indépendences, vol. 94, pp. 51 - 68, http://www.persee.fr/doc/outre_1631-0438_2006_num_93_350_4189
    Journal articles | 2005
    2005, 'Assimilation and Racialism in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Colonial Policy', The American Historical Review, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/ahr/110.2.322
    Journal articles | 2005
    Belmessous S, 2005, 'Assimilation and Racialism in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Colonial Policy', American Historical Review, vol. 110, pp. 322 - 349, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/531317
    Journal articles | 2004
    Belmessous S, 2004, 'Etre français en Nouvelle-France: Identité française et identité coloniale aux dix-septième et dix-huitième siècles (trans. Being French in New France: French and colonial identity in the 17th and 18th century)', French Historical Studies, vol. 27, pp. 507 - 540, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/171199
    Journal articles | 2003
    Belmessous S, 2003, 'John Gascoigne, The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiii + 233 pp. ISBN 0-521-80343-8 (hardback).', Itinerario, vol. 27, pp. 304 - 307, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115300020969
    Journal articles | 2000
    Belmessous S, 2000, 'La politique indigène de la France au Canada ou les limites du métissage en histoire coloniale', Bulletin du CENA - EHESS, pp. 91 - 103

Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, 2015-2022. Topic: The engagement of colonised peoples with empire (Algeria, 1830-1962)
Future Fellowship, Australian Research Council, 2011-2015. Topic: Indigenous land claims in historical context
Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2006-2008. Topic: Assimilation and Empire

  • Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, 2015-2019
  • 2014 UNSW Dean's Award for Best Monograph for Assimilation and Empire: Uniformity in French and British Colonies, 1541-1954 (Oxford University Press)
  • Visiting Professorship, Université Paris 8, April 2014
  • 2013 New South Wales Premier's General History Prize for Assimilation and Empire: Uniformity in French and British Colonies, 1541-1954 (Oxford University Press)
  • Future Fellowship, Australian Research Council, 2011-2015.
  • National and State Libraries Australasian Honorary Fellowship, 2011.
  • US Studies Centre Research Grant, 2010.
  • University of Sydney Bridging Fellowship, 2009.
  • Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2006-2008.
  • Georges Lurcy Fellowship, 1995.
  • Lavoisier Program of Excellence Fellowship, 1994.
  • Fulbright Fellowship, 1994.

Member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts (2019-2021)

Member of the European Science Foundation (ESF) College of Expert Reviewers (2019-2021)

External Reviewer for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

Assessor for the European Research Council
 

Teaching:

  • ARTS 1270 Global History
  • ARTS 2272 The European World, 1500-1800
  • ARTS 3270 Reflecting on Histories and Historians: Capstone
  • ARTS 3290 Visions and Voices of Empire

Areas of HDR supervision:

  • colonial history
  • comparative history of European empires
  • comparative indigenous histories
  • history of ideas and history of political thought
  • Native American history
  • European history
  • American history
  • global history