Biography Abosede George, assistant professor (Barnard), specializes in African history, women’s history, urban history of Africa, and the history of childhood in Africa. She received her Ph.D. from StanfordUniversity (2006). Her article “Feminist Activism and Class Politics: The Example of the Lagos Girl Hawker Project” is forthcoming Women’s Studies Quarterly 35 (2007). She is currently working on a book project about the history of juvenile justice in 20th-century Lagos, Nigeria.
