Name: Omar Sarr
Year in program: First Year
Primary supervisor: Walter Hawthorne
Major field: History
Link to your personal page or profile: https://michiganstate.academia.edu/OmarSarr
I am a PhD student at Michigan State University with an MA in History from Ohio University and a BA in History from the University of The Gambia. I am broadly interested in African agricultural history, focusing on the eighteenth-century period. My research is centered on The Gambia River region, and I am working under the supervision of Professor Walter Hawthorne. I am fluent in Wolof, Mandinka, and Fula