Emily Callaci

I am an historian of modern Africa, global feminism and decolonization. My first book, Street Archives and City Life: Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania, explores the creative lives of urban migrant youth to the city of Dar es Salaam during Tanzania’s socialist era, from 1967 through 1985. Drawing together a range of unconventional sources, or “street archives,” my book reveals a world of cultural innovation, literary production, and the elaboration of a distinctly urban subjectivity among migrants and refugees in Dar es Salaam.

My second book Wages for Housework: The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a Promise is an intellectual and social history of the global Wages for Housework movement from the 1970s.

I am currently working on a third book, provisionally called Planning the African Family, which explores the intersection of decolonization and search for health and reproductive justice in sub-Saharan Africa in the 1960s-1980s.

I serve as co-editor of the American Historical Review series History Unclassified.

Education
Ph.D., Northwestern University
M.A., Northwestern University
B.A., Kenyon College