I am a historian of modern African and global history at the National Institute of Education in Singapore. I specialize in histories of education, development, and decolonization in the 20th century.

My research explores how schooling came to be imagined as part of larger projects of emancipation—from colonial rule, from material need, and from oppressive racial and imperial ideologies. I am currently at work on my first book manuscript, tentatively titled An Anticolonial Development: Public Schooling, Emancipation, and its Limits in 20th Century West Africa.