Education & Professional History
Clark Atlanta University, BA; Cornell University, MPS; Emory University, MA, PhD
As an associate professor of African history (and of the African diaspora) at Carleton College, I explore the cultural and social factors that have shaped the history of Africans and their descendants in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds. I reflect on how historical actors imagine the past to shape the present and future in my research and teaching. And as a scholar of Africana Studies (focusing on the global experience of African peoples and their cultural productions), I find many parallels in the ways that people narrate the past, constuct identity, and, like artists, act with an awareness of an audience.
At Carleton since 2010.
Current Courses
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Fall 2020
AFST 100: Gender and Sex in African History
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AFST 400: Integrative Exercise
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HIST 281: War in Modern Africa
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Winter 2021
AFST 398: Africana Studies Capstone
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AFST 400: Integrative Exercise
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HIST 398: Advanced Historical Writing
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HIST 400: Integrative Exercise
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Spring 2021
AFST 400: Integrative Exercise
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HIST 183: History of Early West Africa
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HIST 383: Africa's Colonial Legacies
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Fall 2021
AFST 100: Gender and Sex in African History
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HIST 181: West Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade
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Winter 2022
HIST 184: Colonial West Africa
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Spring 2022
HIST 282: History, Culture, and Commerce Program: Zanzibar’s Indian Ocean Links
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HIST 284: History, Culture and Commerce Program: Heritage in Africa and Arabia
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HIST 285: History, Culture and Commerce Program: Critical Historical Research