Safia Aidid

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

Sarah Balakrishnan

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

Kirin Gupta

Winthrop House Adviser

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

Tsitsi Mangosho

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

tsitsimangosho@g.harvard.edu

Iman Mohamed

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

Ifeosa Nkem-Onyekpe

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

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