Samia Henni is Assistant Professor of History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism at Cornell University. She is the author of Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Northern Algeria (EN, 2017; FR, 2019), the editor of War Zones: gta papers 2 (2018), and the curator of Discreet Violence: Architecture and the French War in Algeria (2017–19). Her teaching and research interests include the history and theory of the built environments in relation to colonialism, displacement, gender, Islamophobia, resources extraction, and wars from the first European colonization to the present.