Yasmine Najm is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Utrecht (UUNL), working within the ERC Consolidator Grant project COOPERATION, led by Prof. Ozan Ozavci.

Her postdoctoral project focuses on the Sanitary Council of Tangier and examines how health governance, diplomacy, and imperial competition intersected in the 19th-century Mediterranean space. Her fields of interest span press history, imperial statehood in the “long 19th century,” and the governance of space across the French empire, with a methodological grounding in digital humanities, including corpus analysis and spatial text mining.

She holds a Ph.D. in Global Studies from Leipzig University (2026) and a doctoral research certificate from the École Normale Supérieure – PSL within the Franco-German Doctoral Training Program in Cultural Transfers. Her dissertation, entitled “Printing the National Empire: French Official Journals and Imperial Respatialization in the Metropole and Indochina, 1799–1909,” is under contract with De Gruyter’s Dialectics of the Global Series. 

Since March 2024, she has been a Contributing Researcher for The Revue des Colonies: A Digital Scholarly Edition and Translation at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her publications include “The French Globalization Project in French Indochina: From the Nationalization of the Missionary Project to the Establishment of a Colonial Project in the Courrier de Saïgon,” published in French Globalization Projects (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2024). She has presented her work at the French Colonial Historical Society, the Society for French Historical Studies, the European Network in Universal and Global History, ENS-PSL, and the Archives nationales d’outre-mer in Aix-en-Provence. She holds an M.A. in Global Studies from Leipzig University and an M.Sc. (with distinction) in Global Economic History from the London School of Economics and Political Science.