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Benedito Machava is a historian specializing in colonial and post-colonial Africa. He was raised and educated in Mozambique and received his PhD from Michigan University in 2018. His research focuses on liberation struggles, decolonization, nation building, and African socialism. His current book manuscript, "Morality Revolution: Reeducation Camps and the Carceral Regime in Socialist Mozambique, 1974-1990," examines the intersection of public morality, carcerality, and citizenship in post-independence Mozambique. His research has been supported by fellowships from the Social Science Research Council and the Guggenheim Foundation. Currently at Yale, he was previously a Cotsen-Link Postdoctoral Fellow at the Society of Fellows at Princeton University (2018-2020) and a History Lecturer at the University Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo, Mozambique. His selected publications include articles in journals such as the "Journal of African History" and "Journal of Southern African Studies."
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