I am a historian of the Sahel and West Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries.
My work explores the circulations of people and ideas connecting West Africa to the Atlantic and Saharan worlds; social histories of Islam in Mali and the Sahel; Malian women’s histories; and pan-Africanism.
I am the James Weldon Johnson Assistant Professor of History at New York University, where I’m also Affiliated Faculty at the Institute of French Studies. In addition, I serve on the editorial board of the Journal of West African History, and as co-director of the Projet Archives des Femmes. I received my PhD in African History from UCLA.
In 2024-25, I’m a Newhouse Foundation Fellow and scholar-in-residence at the Schomburg Center.
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