Biography
Ahmed Mitiche is a historical and cultural anthropologist and PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. His work examines the intersections of religion, secularism, and politics in the modern Middle East and North Africa, with a specialization in Islamic intellectual traditions under colonial rule.
His current research explores how Algerian Muslim scholars conceptualized and contested French settler-colonialism from the founding of the Association of Algerian Muslim Scholars in 1931 through the conclusion of the Algerian Revolution in 1962. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic and archival methods alongside close textual analysis, he examines both the material practices and theological grammars through which these actors resisted colonial governance, tracing its structural implications across social life, epistemology, and subjectivity.
His research has been supported by the Fulbright Program, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the American Institute for Maghrib Studies. He is currently a Dissertation Fellow at Columbia's Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life.
