Elizabeth M. Perego is an historian of contemporary Algeria and its global and regional connections. She earned her Ph.D. in Middle Eastern, African, and gender history from the Ohio State University and has authored articles that have appeared in the Journal of North African Studies and the International Journal of Middle East Studies, among other publications. Her scholarship examines the intersection of politics, culture, and gender in Algeria well as the modern Maghreb more broadly. She is presently completing a book project entitled, Satire, Subversion, State: Political Humor and Popular Contention in Algeria, 1930s to the Present, which explores comedy as a site of identity and social memory formation and political expression at times of heightened repression. In 2020, she served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University's Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia (Department of Near Eastern Studies). She joined Appalachian State University's Department of History in January 2021 as a specialist in Middle Eastern and North African History after holding a tenure-stream position at Shepherd University (West Virginia) from 2017 to 2019.
