Corrie Decker

Corrie Decker specializes in the history of gender, childhood, sexuality, and development in East Africa. Her book, Mobilizing Zanzibari Women: The Struggle for Respectability and Self-Reliance in Colonial East Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), is a history of Muslim girls' education and women's professionalization in colonial Zanzibar. Decker co-authored The Idea of Development in Africa (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press), and she has written several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. Her current research investigates the history of maturation in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.