Celine is a full-time PhD candidate at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, currently working under the supervision of Dr Joanna Lewis. She holds a first-class BA in Middle Eastern Studies (with Arabic) from the University of Manchester and an MSc in History of International Relations from ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳. In 2018, she was awarded ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳’s Medlicott Prize for her master's thesis, ‘French Algerian Hip-Hop: Colonialism, the Civil War and the Homeland.’
Celine's doctoral thesis aims to build a contemporary history of Algerian immigrants in France through the lens of hip-hop. In particular, it examines the influences of colonialism, cultural identity, poverty, violence and Islam in the lives of second and third-generation Algerian immigrants.
Provisional thesis title
“Génération Ça Va Pas”: An Examination of French Algerian Hip-Hop and its Representations of the Algerian Immigrant Experience in France (2005-today).