Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik 

Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik is a historian of 20th century world history and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Middle East Studies Center who begins teaching at Suffolk University as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2021. She received a Master’s in History from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris in June 2014, and a PhD in History at the U. of Penn in May 2020. She has published in Monde(s), World Art, and the International Journal of Middle East Studies. She is at work on her first book tentatively entitled The Maghreb Generation: Revolutionary Pan-Africanism in Postcolonial Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, as well as on a historical graphic novel based on the travel diaries of French explorers Odette du Puigaudeau and Marion Sénones in Mauritania.