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Wallace Teska is a Junior Research Fellow in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge, focusing on the legal ecology of the Ivorian-Guinean forest zone between 1800 and 1960. His research interrogates the intersections of legal and environmental history within the context of African colonialism, particularly in francophone West Africa. He has published on diverse topics including colonial Islamic law, religious conversion, migrant labor, and the afterlives of slavery in the region. Teska received his Ph.D. in African History from Stanford University in 2024 and was a Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellow. His scholarly work is supported by various prestigious organizations and he has been an active participant in significant academic projects, such as the Senegal Liberations Project, examining historical logbooks related to enslaved individuals in the nineteenth century. Teska has mentored students on a wide range of historical subjects and is interested in supervising research related to Indigenous and colonial law, environmental changes, and the legacies of slavery and abolition.
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