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Abosede George
Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies
Abosede George, assistant professor of history and Africana studies, joined the faculty of Barnard in 2007. Before coming to Barnard, she taught at Trinity College and at Stanford University.
Professor George's doctoral research, entitled "Gender and Juvenile Justice: Girl Hawkers in Lagos, Nigeria (1925-1950)," was supported by the Michelle Clayman Institute for Research on Gender and the Weter Foundation. She has also received an Obie Shultz Fellowship from the Institute for International Studies.
Professor George's research interests include social reform movements in Africa, African cultural and intellectual production, urban history, women's studies, and popular culture.
She is currently working on a book-length project about the history of juvenile justice in twentieth-century Lagos, Nigeria.
Selected Publications
"Feminist Activism and Class Politics: The Example of the Lagos Girl Hawker Project," Women's Studies Quarterly 35 (2007)
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EDUCATION:
B.A., Rutgers College
M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University
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SPECIALIZATION:
African history
Social reform in Africa
Urban history
Women's studies