Catalina “Kiki” Mackaman-Lofland earned her Ph.D. in History from Ohio State University in May 2024. Her research examines the role of academic knowledge production in the humanities and social sciences and higher education in modern European colonialism in North Africa. Her dissertation, "Algeria's French University: Colonial Higher Education and North African Studies at the Faculté des lettres d'Alger, 1930-1965," addresses these themes in the context of French Algeria by examining the social and intellectual history of the humanities college (Faculté des lettres) of the University of Algiers. Her research has been supported by the Bourse Chateaubriand, the American Institute for Maghrib Studies, and Ohio State University's Presidential Fellowship.