Bianca A. Murillo

I am historian of modern Africa, with research and teaching interests in global economies, decolonization, and race and gender studies. While my work focuses on twentieth century Ghana, my research on international business and capitalism is comparative and transnational. I am a teacher-scholar with experience at both private and public universities in United States and have developed history curriculum for university pipeline programs and public high schools. I am the author of Market Encounters: Consumer Cultures in Twentieth-Century Ghana (2017) and my articles have appeared in the journals Gender & History, Enterprise & Society, and Africa. My current book project entitled Financing Africa’s Future, is a history of debt, foreign investment, and fraud in Ghana’s post-independence era. Recent writings featuring this research appear in Africa is a Country and History Workshop. 

My research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, the Institute of Citizens & Scholars (formally the Woodrow Wilson Foundation), Fulbright-Hays Program, and the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship Program (U.S. Department of Education). I am an elected board member of the Business History Conference (Association) and have served as an elected committee member, and committee chair for the American Historical Association (Washington, D.C.)