The Pre-Modern North Africa working group is an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary group of graduate students and faculty members interested in common thematic threads in the history, anthropology, archaeology, and historiography of North Africa, from prehistory (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.