Nathalie Cole is a professor of anthropology and chair of the Department of Comparative Human Development, and Co-Chair of the Committee on African Studies, at the University of Chicago. Her research examines how personal change across the life course shapes, and is shaped by, broader political, economic and cultural transformations: the unruly terrain where person and history meet. As a result of these interests, she has worked on topics ranging from the historical memory of colonial violence to gender and migration.  She is the author of Forget Colonialism? Sacrifice and the Art of  Memory in Madagascar (2001) and Sex and Salvation: Imagining the Future in Madagascar (Chicago 2010) in addition to numerous co-edited volumes on topics including youth and globalization, love and sexuality, and family based migration.