Majula Swareh

Majula Swareh joined the program in Fall 2025. Her research centers on the social histories of war and memory in The Gambia, with a particular focus on colonial soldiering during the First and Second World Wars. She is especially interested in public memory and sites of memory related to Gambian participation in the wars, examining how remembrance is shaped, contested, and archived. Her work further engages broader questions of archival practice, public history, epistemic justice, and the histories of tragedy, war, and massacre.

She also works on the histories of artist collectives in the Senegambia region and African film more broadly, with particular attention to aesthetics, visual archiving, and poetics of cultural production.

Majula holds an MA in African Cultural Studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a BA in Anthropology and History from The George Washington University.