Abosede George

Abosede George is the Tow Associate Professor of History at Barnard College[1] and Columbia University in New York.

[2] Her book, Making Modern Girls: A History of Girlhood, Labor, and Social Development was published in 2014 by Ohio University Press and received the Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize in 2015 from the Women’s Caucus of the African Studies Association, as well as Honorable Mention from the New York African Studies Association.

[4] George has published widely on subjects such as girlhood in African/colonial cities, urbanism and social reform in colonial Africa, among others.

She is the founder of The Ekopolitan Project, a digital forum dedicated to historical research on migrant communities in nineteenth- and twentieth century Lagos, West Africa.

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