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Larissa Kopytoff is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of South Florida. Her work bridges African history, European imperial history, and legal history, with a focus on citizenship, colonial law, and trans-imperial mobility in French colonial Senegal. She teaches courses in African history, global history, legal history, and historical methods.
- Ph.D., New York University
- M.A., University of Pennsylvania
Her research explores the legal and political dimensions of citizenship in colonial and postcolonial Africa, emphasizing the French empire’s administrative frameworks and their implications for identity formation. She has also examined comparative slavery, emancipation, and the role of law in shaping imperial hierarchies.
Notable honors include teaching awards from New York University and the University of South Florida, alongside research fellowships from the Fulbright-Hays Program, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Society for Legal History’s Hurst Institute and Wallace Johnson Program.
