Publications
Books:
The Idea of Development in Africa: A History, co-authored with Elisabeth McMahon (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Mobilizing Zanzibari Women: The Struggle for Respectability and Self-Reliance in Colonial East Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Articles and Book Chapters:
“Gender, Sexuality, and the Body,” in A Cultural History of Youth, Volume 5: Age of Empire, edited by David M. Pomfret (Bloomsbury Press, forthcoming 2021)
“A ‘Tomboy’ and a ‘Lady’: Religion, Modernity, and Youth Culture in Twentieth-Century Zanzibar,” in The Oxford Handbook on the History of Youth Culture, edited by James Marten (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2021)
“Sexuality in Colonial Africa: Current Trends and New Directions,” in The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism, edited by Dagmar Herzog and Chelsea Shields (Routledge, forthcoming 2021)
“A Feminist Methodology of Age-Grading and History in Africa,” AHR Roundtable: Chronological Age: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis, American Historical Review Vol. 125, no. 2 (2020)
“The Search for Juvenile Delinquency in Colonial Zanzibar, East Africa,” in William Bush and David Tanenhaus, eds., Ages of Anxiety: Historical and Transnational Perspectives on Juvenile Justice (New York University Press, 2018)
“Education: Colonial: Sub-Saharan Africa,” Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, general editor Suad Joseph (Brill, 2015)
“The Elusive Power of Colonial Prey: Sexualizing the Schoolgirl in the Zanzibar Protectorate,” Africa Today Vol. 61, no. 4 (2015), Special Issue on Love & Sex in Islamic Africa, guest ed. by Elisabeth McMahon and Corrie Decker
“Introduction: Love & Sex in Islamic Africa,” Africa Today Vol. 61, no. 4 (2015), Special Issue on Love & Sex in Islamic Africa, ed. by Elisabeth McMahon and Corrie Decker
“Schoolgirls and Women Teachers: Colonial Education and the Shifting Boundaries between Girls and Women in Zanzibar,” in Gendered Lives in the Western Indian Ocean: Islam, Marriage, and Sexuality on the Swahili Coast, ed. by Erin Stiles and Katrina Daly Thompson (Ohio University Press, 2015)
“Biology, Islam, and the Science of Sex Education in Colonial Zanzibar,” Past & Present Vol. 222, No. 1 (February 2014)
“Reading, Writing, and Respectability: How Schoolgirls Developed Modern Literacies in Colonial Zanzibar,” International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 43, No. 1 (Spring 2010)
“Fathers, Daughters, and Institutions: Coming of Age in Mombasa’s Colonial Schools” in Girlhood: A Global History, ed. by Jennifer Helgren and Colleen Vasconcellos (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2010)
“Wives or Workers: Negotiating the Social Contract between Female Teachers and the Colonial State in Zanzibar,” co-authored with Elisabeth McMahon, Journal of Women’s History, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Summer 2009)
