Sonia Toudji
Associate Professor
Irby 416
(501) 450-3158
SPRING 2024 OFFICE HOURS
TR 11:00-12:00, 2:30-3:30
2301: Making of America |
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32919 | ONLINE 2nd Half Semester: 03/04-05/03/2024 | ||
4344: Topics in World History: Latin America: From Malinche to Castro |
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34898 | ONLINE 1st Half Semester: 01/11-03/01/2024 | ||
3310: Social Science Concepts in Arkansas History |
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34368 | TR | 9:25-10:40 | Irby 115 |
34369 | TR | 12:15- 1:30 | Irby 115 |
Sonia Toudji received her Licence (B.A.) in English Studies from the University of TiziOuzou, Algeria (2004) and her masters degree from Université du Maine, Le Mans France (2006) with a thesis that focused on school Integration and Affirmative Action at the University of Arkansas. She worked on a Doctorate in American Studies at Université du Maine and a Ph.D. in American History at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville in a joint program and graduated from both institutions in 2012. She has joined UCA in fall 2012 and has taught several courses in her fields of expertise including, Frontiers and Borderlands, Arkansas history and the South, and Native Americans and the Westward Expansion. Her research specializes in the early encounters, Native American and African identity in the frontiers, gender and intimacy, as well as slavery and captivity. Her publications include “‘The Happiest Consequences’: Sexual Unions and Frontier Survival of French and Quapaws at the Arkansas Post;” “Change and Continuity: French and Indian alliance in the Mississippi Valley after the Treaty of Paris 1763,” in Une Amérique Française 1760-1860; and “‘They Did All the Work Except Hunting;’ Women and Labor in Early Frontier Arkansas,” in Arkansas Women: Their Lives and Times.
Educational Background
Doctorat d’Etudes Anglophones-Université du Maine, Le Mans, France
Ph.D. in History, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville
Specialty Fields
Arkansas and Southern History, Frontier and American Indian, Early U.S., Latin America
Research Interests
Early Encounters; Gender & Intimacy; Native American & African Identity in the Frontiers, Slavery & Captivity