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Biography
Abosede George joined the faculty of Barnard in 2007. She specializes in women's history, urban history, the history of childhood in Africa, the study of gender and sexuality in African History, and the history of development work in Africa. She is currently working on a book about the politics of girl-saving and transformations in girlhood in 20th-century colonial Lagos, Nigeria.
She maintains faculty affiliations with the Africana Studies Program at Barnard, the Institute for African Studies at Columbia (IAS), the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW), and the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference (CCASD). She received her B.A. from Rutgers University (1999) and her Ph.D. from Stanford (2006).
Academic Focus:
African history
Social reform in Africa
Urban history
Women's studies
Selected Publications
“Within Salvation: Girl Hawkers and the Colonial State in Development Era Lagos,” Journal of Social History Spring 2011
"Feminist Activism and Class Politics: The Example of the Lagos Girl Hawker Project," Women's Studies Quarterly 35 (2007)
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