He received his Ph.D. in History from Princeton University. His forthcoming book, An Uncertain Age: Making Manhood, Maturity, and the Elder State in Kenya, explores the importance of age and masculinity in the formation of the state in Kenya as well as everyday lives of young African men. He focuses on young men’s experiences of migrant wage labor, street life, criminality, and organized violence as well as the state’s efforts to encourage, control, and discipline these activities.