Biography
I am a Ph.D. Candidate in African history. My dissertation research explores the interconnected histories of intimacy and health in precolonial Uganda. My broader research interests include early African history, gender, sexuality, affect, and health and healing in sub-Saharan Africa. My work on gender, intimacy, identity, and health in Uganda and Ghana has appeared in the Journal of West African History, History in Africa, and the edited volume Strings Attached: AIDS and the Rise of Transnational Connections in Africa (London: Oxford University Press, 2014).
Education
M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A., San Francisco State University
B.A., San Francisco State University
Field
- African History
MA Title
- “Intimate Bonds, Healthy Communities: Blood-Covenants as Technologies of Community Building Between the Great Lakes, c. 500 BCE-1500 CE”
Working Dissertation Title
- “Therapeutic Intimacy, Affective Medicine: Forging Bonds of Affection, Knowledge, and Power in Uganda’s Distant Past”
Selected Awards
- Graduate TA Capstone Teaching Award, History Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring 2022.
- Doris G. Quinn Dissertation Writing Fellowship, 2020-2021.
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA), 2018-19.
- Academic Year Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS), 2014-15.
- Summer Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS), City Language Center-Kampala, Uganda, summer 2014 and 2015.
Professional Affiliations
- African Studies Association
Courses Taught as TA
- History Lab Coordinator – Fall 2022-Spring 2024
- History 130 – Introduction to World History with Paul Grant (Fall 2021)
- History 277 – Introduction to Africa with Neil Kodesh (Fall 2017; Summer 2020)
- STS 201 – When Science Meets Society with Daniel Williford (Spring 2022)