I am a specialist of modern African history, with a particular emphasis on West Africa during colonial rule. My research explores Senegal’s complex interactions with France during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and focuses in particular on the entangled histories of childhood and education. My current book project explores the history of childhood in Senegal from the 1840s to the 1930s, examining how the French colonial state and its allies sought to regulate, reform, and bring order to childhood and how African children responded to these interventions. This research grew out of my earlier work on the political implications of colonial education in Senegal from the 1850s to 1914, which explored how French schools and African responses to them reshaped ideas about political participation, leadership, family relationships, and social hierarchy.