About Adrienne Tyrey

I am a doctoral candidate in History at Michigan State University. I specialize in the education system of the French Protectorate of Morocco as it relates to Amazigh (Berber) history. I will defend my dissertation, entitled “Divide and School: Berber Education in Morocco from the Protectorate to the Present,” in the spring of 2018. My Master’s research focused on colonial and post-colonial interactions and mobility between France and North Africa. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, I received a Bachelor’s degree in History, French, and Anthropology from the University of Tulsa. In 2009, I spent six months studying in Toulouse, France. I spent the summer of 2013 studying Arabic in Rabat, Morocco on a FLAS fellowship.
I spent a research year abroad on a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowship in 2015. This award enabled me to conduct oral and archival research for nine months in Morocco and three in France. In Morocco, I worked with the Institut royale de la culture Amazighe du Maroc (IRCAM), the Bibliothèque Nationale du Royaume du Maroc (BNRM), and the Archives du Maroc. In France, I consulted the collections of the Archives diplomatiques de Nantes and the Archives nationales d’outre-mer in Aix-en-Provence. My dissertation research examines the Amazigh (Berber) ethnolinguistic revival movement through the lens of language education policy in French Protectorate Moroccan public schools. I returned to Aix-en-Provence in the summer of 2017 to consult the archives of the Maison méditerranéanne des sciences de l’homme.

In academic year 2017-2018, I am the Assistant Editor of the H-Net Book Channel.
For the past five years, I have served on the organizing committee of the Migration Without Boundaries Graduate Conference at MSU. The conference website can be found here, and is on twitter @MSU_Migration.

In academic year 2016-2017, I served as an RCAH Graduate Fellow and in the Interdisciplinary Inquiry in Teaching Fellowship of James Madison College. I was awarded the Somers Award for Excellence in Teaching for my work in the Center for Integrative Studies.
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During the summer of 2017, I led a study abroad group in Brussels, Belgium, on the topic “The European Union, Globalization, and Social Change.” Students took courses in Integrative Arts and Humanities, Integrative Social Sciences, and Anthropology, while experiencing Belgian culture and diversity.

Morocco

Photo of the Sahara Desert south of Merzouga
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