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Samuel Fury Childs Daly is Associate Professor of History and The College at the University of Chicago. His research examines law, warfare, and military regimes in post-independence Africa, particularly how military dictatorships utilize law and how warfare transforms legal systems.
His first book, A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War (Cambridge, 2020), connects the Nigerian Civil War to patterns of fraud and violent crime in postwar Nigeria, winning multiple awards including the Law and Society Association J. Willard Hurst Book Prize and African Studies Association Fage & Oliver Prize. His forthcoming book Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire explores militarism as a 20th-century ideological force in former British colonies.
Current research includes a global history of military desertion and a study of military imposters. His articles appear in leading journals including Past & Present, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and Law & History Review. Daly earned his PhD from Columbia University, MPhil from Cambridge, and MA from SOAS, University of London.
His major awards include the Hurst Book Prize (2020), Fage & Oliver Prize (2020), and Stein Book Award Honorable Mention (2020) for his seminal work on Biafra.
