Corrie Decker specializes in the history of gender, childhood, sexuality, and development in East Africa. Her first book, Mobilizing Zanzibari Women: The Struggle for Respectability and Self-Reliance in Colonial East Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), investigates the history of Muslim girls’ education and women’s professionalization in the Zanzibar Islands. She co-authored, with Elisabeth McMahon, The Idea of Development in Africa: A History (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Her work also appears in the American Historical Review, Past & Present, the Journal of Women’s History, Africa Today, and other journals and edited volumes. Decker is currently writing a book on the history of rites of passage and the institutionalization of chronological age titled “The Age of Sex: Custom, Law, and Ritual in East Africa."