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BELS Fellow
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Dimitri Diagne is a PhD candidate in History at UC Berkeley. He studies how struggles between French administrators, African politicians, and agrarian communities shaped colonial rule in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French West Africa. His research uses changing regimes of agricultural land use in the Delta of the Senegal River as a window into broader questions about property and production under empire, with a particular interest in how Africans used arguments about productivity and labor to assert land rights before colonial authorities. He holds a B.S. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from Yale University.
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