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<\/a>\u201c\u2019Who is Marjorie Mensah?\u2019 The Educated Woman and the Formation of a Modern West African Nation\u201d<\/p>\nDr. Prais is the assistant director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University.\u00a0 She received her PhD in history and women\u2019s studies from the University of Michigan. Her research interests include citizenship and social movements and colonial and gender identity formation in twentieth-century West Africa. She has received research funding from Columbia\u2019s Committee on Global Thought, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the University of Michigan. Recent publications include \u201c\u2018Casting the Badge of Inferiority Beneath Black Peoples\u2019 Feet\u2019: Archiving and Reading the African Past, Present and Future in World History\u201d with M. Diouf, Global Intellectual History<\/em>, eds. Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori (Columbia University Press, 2013). She is currently working on a book manuscript, entitled, Between Empire and the World: West Africans and the Politics of Race and Culture in Interwar London and Accra<\/em>. For more information on Dr. Prais visit http:\/\/www.ias.columbia.edu\/about-institute-africa-studies\/staff<\/a><\/p>\n