Marius Kothor, Ph.D.
@MariusKothor
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Historian of women in 20th C. Togo| Assistant Professor of WGS @ Harvard| Yale Ph.D. | Former Refugee| Against Borders|
Joined July 2011
Some 20 yrs ago, I came to United States at the age of nine straight out of a refugee camp in Benin. I'd been a refugee since I was two-years-old and I spoke no English and had no formal education. Today, I am now officially a Yale-trained Ph.D. with a prize-winning dissertation.
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My favorite class question: "what do your parents do?"
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I love when I meet Africans from elite backgrounds and they try to figure my class background and I happily tell them I grew poor. I came to the U.S. as a refugee and grew up in the projects. There is absolutely no 'status' here; just blood, sweat, and tears. Down with elitism.
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I really hope this is just rage bait. Otherwise, this is financial abuse masquerading as economic empowerment.
Employer says her domestic staff are not allowed to send money home from the day she hires them. Thoughts?
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The link to the article I discuss is here:
academic.oup.com
Abstract. As a Togolese refugee who grew up in exile, I have an intimate relationship with Togo’s political history that shapes the ways I conduct research
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I was delighted to be a guest on the latest episode of the @AmHistReview podcast! I joined a wonderful group of scholars to talk about our contributions to the special issue of History Unclassified called "Mistakes I've Made." Check it out here:
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What if historians could own up to their mistakes? Or learn to see their mistakes not as weaknesses to be hidden but as a necessary part of the process of growth and discovery? That is what a recent...
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Exciting! a conference on colonialism, decolonization, and their legacies in my beautiful home city of Lomé!!
cc: @MariusKothor
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🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 The Association of Historians and Archaeologists of Togo invites submissions for its upcoming conference on Colonialism, Resistance, and Legacy, to be held at the University of Lomé from 21 to 23 April 2026. Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2025.
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I promise to share once I've finalized the list. It's been hard to narrow down my favorites: only 14 weeks in the semester!
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I'll be teaching a course on "Women in African History" next semester & I plan to begin each class with a song by an African woman artist that corresponds with the week's readings. I'm creating the playlist right now and it's already way too long! Exciting.
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Book is out! 💃🏿💛💙 Guys, I wrote a WHOLE book! Oh my God! 🙈😊 You can order it via @RutgersUPress here https://t.co/y4uPcY2Php
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New Haven friends, I'm coming back to Yale next next week to present my work and I'd love to see you there!
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excited to share that my AHR article is now available online – and open access! https://t.co/AZBCQt0kJA
two rounds of revisions and nine reader reports later, my article “A Revolution of Letters: Text, Sight and Spectacle in Socialist Somalia” was just accepted for publication by the American Historical Review
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Honored to announce my first London solo exhibition “The Ones Before Her Were Covered in Gold” with @gallery1957 — opening Oct 14, 2025. Through embroidery, sculpture & archival research, I reimagine Ghanaian histories in full color & gold. On view until Dec 20. ☂️
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She reminds me of the millionaire textile merchants I write about in my work. She's definetly giving Nana Benz.
“Bus Aunty” Bemi Orojuogun glows in a recent Burberry campaign 😍
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Yoruba and Fongbe
Two languages you wish you could speak very well?
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We did what refugees are never supposed to do: we wrote a book that names and criticises the humanitarian agencies that are meant to be our “saviours” For years, they wrote about us. Reports, statistics, projects. Now we have written about them—about UNHCR, IOM, and the EU. And
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Thrilled to share that my article on historical memory in Togo has been published in the American Historical review! @AmHistReview So happy to see my work featured alongside the works of such brilliant scholars in the History Unclassified special issue!!
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