Research interests: Modern Northeast Africa (Somalia and Ethiopia); nationalism and popular politics; state formation; borderlands;...

Sarah Balakrishnan is a doctoral candidate in History at Harvard University, specializing in Colonial West Africa, the British Empire, and black...

Kirin entered the History program in Fall of 2017. She studies female(*) terrorists in the former British empire, working transnationally across fields of...

Research interests: Modern Southern Africa, Informal Economy, Capitalism, history of taxation and African economic development.

Research interests: Somali customary law (xeer), Italian colonialism, early 20th century Somalia Italiana, legal pluralism, Shari'a, and oral history....

A native of Agbor, Delta State, Nigeria, Anwuli was...