Dr. Marker’s research and teaching interests are in imperial and postcolonial Europe, francophone Africa, race, religion, youth, and global history. Her first book, Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era (Cornell, 2022), explores how public and private programs to promote solidarity between French and African youth collided with transnational efforts to make young people in Western Europe feel European after World War II. Based on several years of archival research in France, Senegal, Italy and Belgium, Black France, White Europe locates these competing generational projects at the center of the entangled history of decolonization and European integration. She is currently working on a personal family history about her paternal grandparents, both Holocaust survivors from Vienna. The project, tentatively titled, Lessons From My Grandparents: Reflections on the Future of Reparations in Transnational Europe, mobilizes her own positionality as both a descendant-beneficiary of Holocaust reparations and as a postcolonial scholar to critically reconsider the logics of contemporary Europe’s transnational reparations regime.

Dr. Marker is the current president of the Camden Chapter of Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Immediate Past President of the Western Society for French History. At Rutgers, she was recently a faculty fellow at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis (2023-24) and is also a member of the graduate faculty in history in New Brunswick, the executive committee of Rutgers’ Center for African Studies, and the faculty advisory board of Rutgers’ Center for European Studies. In 2024, she joined the editorial board of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth and the faculty advisory board of the American Friends of the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance (DÖW).