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Bianca Murillo is a historian of modern Africa, with research and teaching interests in global economies, decolonization, and race and gender studies. While her work focuses on twentieth-century Ghana, her research on international business and capitalism is comparative and transnational. She is the author of Market Encounters: Consumer Cultures in Twentieth-Century Ghana (2017) and her writing has appeared in the journals Gender & History, Enterprise & Society, and Africa. Her current book project entitled Financing Africa’s Future, is a history of debt, foreign investment, and fraud in 1960s-1970s Ghana. Recent writings featuring this research appear in Africa is a Country and History Workshop. Her research has been supported by the NEH, ACLS, the Institute of Citizens & Scholars (formally the Woodrow Wilson Foundation), and Fulbright.
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