Larissa Kopytoff is an Instructor at the University of South Florida. She earned her Ph.D. in African History from New York University in 2018, after earning her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. Her current work explores the political and legal history of French citizenship in colonial Senegal. More broadly, her research interests include citizenship and nationality in colonial and postcolonial Africa; colonial law and administration, including the intersections of legal status with racial and religious identities; and mobility within and across imperial boundaries, with an emphasis on the French empire. She teaches courses in African history, global history, the history of empires, comparative slavery and emancipation, and historical methods, and she has won teaching awards at both New York University and USF. In 2019, Larissa was a Fellow at the University of Wisconsin's J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History, and she has presented her research at conferences in Africa, Europe, and North America. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Society for Legal History, the Fulbright-Hays DDRA Program, and most recently by an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Project Development Grant.