André Adam (academic)

André Clément Henri Adam (30 July 1911, in Saint-Lô – 2 July 1991, in Veulettes-sur-Mer) was a French colonial researcher and professor specialized in the social sciences, letters, Arabic, and North Africa. He wrote extensively on Casablanca, Morocco, publishing a two volume study of the city's transformation with contact with the west entitled Casablanca: essai sur la transformation de la société marocaine au contact de l'Occident, and a general history of the city up to 1914 entitled Histoire de Casablanca: des origines à 1914.

Education
He studied literature at l’École normale supérieure (1933), earned a diploma from l’École libre des sciences politiques (1935), and earned an Agrégation de Lettres (1936). He also held a certification in Standard Arabic from L’Institut des hautes-études marocaines (1942), and a doctorat d’État in letters and human sciences from Paris-Sorbonne University with high honors (1968).

Career
He was appointed to work for the Direction générale des affaires indigènes du Maroc of the French Protectorate in Morocco (1943-1945) and was made an honorary reserve captain. He served in various civil roles as a professor agrégé in Rabat 1937, Fes 1941, and at L’Institut des hautes études marocaines in Rabat (1946-1949). He served as the director of L’École marocaine d’administration 1955–1960, also in Rabat. He taught as a professor of sociology at the Faculty of Letters at Aix-Marseille University until 1970. He was named professor emeritus at Paris Descartes University (1980).

His publications on Casablanca, Casablanca: essai sur la transformation de la société marocaine au contact de l'Occident and Histoire de Casablanca: des origines à 1914, are heavily cited by authors writing later about the city, such as Abdallah Laroui, Jean-Louis Cohen, and Susan Gilson Miller.

Publications

 * Casablanca : essai sur la transformation de la société marocaine au contact de l'Occident. Paris : C.N.R.S., 1968
 * Histoire de Casablanca : des origines à 1914. Gap : Ophrys, 1968

Awards

 * Legion of Honour
 * Ordre national du Mérite 
 * Officier de l’Académie 1949
 * Order of Ouissam Alaouite 1962