Jinny Prais

Jinny Prais is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) and the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. She teaches *African Civilizations*, *Locating Africa in the Twentieth-Century World*, and *Citizenship and Social Movements in Africa*. Her research focuses on African intellectual history, diaspora networks, urban culture, and gendered political subjectivity in twentieth-century West Africa.

Her publications include “Representing an African City: The Nightclubs, Dance Halls, and Red-Light District of Interwar Accra,” in *The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities: Infrastructures and Spaces of Belonging* (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), and, with Mamadou Diouf, “‘Casting the Badge of Inferiority Beneath Black Peoples’ Feet’: Archiving and Reading the African Past, Present, and Future in World History,” in *Global Intellectual History*, edited by Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori (Columbia University Press, 2015). She is currently completing a book manuscript, *Between Empire and the World: West Africans and the Politics of Race and Culture in Interwar London and Accra*.