Kathleen Keller

Professor Kathleen Keller of Gustavus Adolphus College is a historian specializing in 20th century France and French West Africa, with particular focus on colonial identities, surveillance systems, and postcolonial transformations. As Program Director in African Studies, she bridges historical research with contemporary social analysis.

• B.A. in History and French from University of Notre Dame
• Ph.D. in History from Rutgers University

Her scholarly work includes:

• Colonial Suspects (2018) - Analysis of French colonial policing in West Africa
• A Magnificent Fraud - Ongoing book project about Senegalese identity reinvention in France

Current research supported by a American Philosophical Society grant for archival work in France. Teaches courses covering:

• African history
• European history
• Women's studies
• World history
• Imperialism