Samuel Fury Childs Daly

Samuel Fury Childs Daly is a historian of law and warfare. He is an associate professor of history and the college at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire (Duke University Press, 2024) and A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and is currently writing two books: a global history of military desertion and a history of military imposters called “Why We Play Soldiers.”