Daniel Williford is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a historian of technology with a focus on twentieth-century North Africa and the Middle East. His work examines the links between colonial modernization projects, the construction of racialized technical hierarchies, local forms of political contestation and labor, and the remaking of urban environments in the region. His current book project, Concrete Futures: Technology and Decolonization in Modern Morocco, narrates the history of expert efforts to govern Moroccan cities through material, organizational and financial technologies that structured who could intervene in the urban environment and how. Daniel has also published work on the history of disaster, infrastructures and the environment, and the politics of expertise and decolonization.