ASC: Emily Burrill

Emily Burrill, Associate Professor of History, UVA, and member of the Karsh Institute's Nau History and Principles of Democracy Lab. A scholar of twentieth-century West African history and gender and sexuality in the French empire, she is the author of States of Marriage: Gender, Justice, and Rights in Colonial Mali (2015, Heggoy Prize winner). Her current book explores the gendered implications of citizenship for West Africans in the French Union and postcolonial West Africa.