The Pre-Modern North Africa working group is an interdisciplinary group of graduate students and faculty members interested in common threads in the history, anthropology, and archaeology of North Africa, from pre-history (beginning c. 300,000 BCE) until the French, Italian, and Spanish colonizations (beginning c. 19th century CE). 

Themes of particular interest include: indigeneity and ethnicity, colonization (ancient/modern), human-environment interaction, migration, identity formation, built landscapes, Romanization, Islamization/Arabization, and socio-cultural innovation, adaptation, and continuity.