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Emily Burrill

Adjunct Associate Professor
eburrill@email.unc.edu


Research Interests

  • Gender History
  • African History
  • Former French Empire; Colonialism and Post-colonialism

Some Notable Publications

  • "Historicizing Social Justice and the Longue Durée of Forced Marriage in Africa," in Marriage by Force?: Contestation Over Consent and Coercion in Africa, ed. Annie Bunting, et al. (Ohio University Press, 2016)
  • States of Marriage: Gender, Justice, and Rights in Colonial Mali (Ohio University Press, 2015)
  • Co-editor, Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa (Ohio University Press, 2010)
  • "'Wives of Circumstance': Slave Emancipation, Vulnerability, and Gender in Late Nineteenth Century Senegal," Slavery and Abolition 29 (1): 49-64
  • "Disputing Wife Abuse: Tribunal Narratives of the Corporeal Punishment of Wives in Colonial Sikasso, 1930s," Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines 47 (3-4): 603-622

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*Though the History Department uses the name Pauli Murray Hall for our building, on official maps you will find it as Hamilton Hall. Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton’s intellectually dishonest historical and archival work promoted white supremacy. In contrast, Pauli Murray marshaled unassailable evidence and analysis in the service of racial and gender equality. In July 2020, all of the departments housed in the building agreed to adopt the name Pauli Murray Hall in place of Hamilton Hall. An official request with the Chancellor is pending. For more information, please see here.
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