I am a historian of the twentieth-century United States, with a particular focus and expertise in African American history. While I am interested in the history of social movements, urban history, and a range of other subjects, I am especially interested in the history of the criminal punishment system in the United States: how it’s …
I am a historian of the twentieth- and twenty-first century United States whose research and teaching focus on the history of sport, African American history, and women’s history. My work is guided by examinations of the ways in which culture, labor, media, and social movements and trends interact with sports. Biography is among my major …
I am an historian of modern Africa, global feminism and decolonization. My first book, Street Archives and City Life: Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania, explores the creative lives of urban migrant youth to the city of Dar es Salaam during Tanzania’s socialist era, from 1967 through 1985. Drawing together a range of unconventional sources, or …
I am a historian of Islam, colonialism, slavery, race, and gender, with a focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century West Africa. I am currently working on my book manuscript, Activating Emancipation: Race, Slavery, and Islamic Respectability Among the Ḥrāṭīn in Colonial Mauritania (Contracted with Ohio University Press’s New African Histories Series). This book tells the unpreviously …
My work focuses on histories of health, the human body, material practices, and knowledge-making about the natural world in the early modern world, with a particular focus on the histories of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the African diaspora. My new book, Bloody Numbers: The Early Atlantic Slave and the Invention of the Modern Corporeality, …
I am a historian of Latin America and early modern Iberia, with an emphasis on the Andes. I study how Black people shaped early modern Iberian political life, using their ideas of community and methods of self-governance to rethink early modern concepts of belonging. In my research and teaching, I focus on inclusion and exclusion, …
I’m a historian of East Africa with a particular emphasis on the Great Lakes region. My research and teaching interests center on medical history, historical anthropology, and multidisciplinary methodologies for writing African history. My first book, Beyond the Royal Gaze: Clanship and Public Healing in Buganda, examined how the domains of politics and public healing …
My Research and Teaching Interests center on Africans and their descendants in the broader world. I teach courses on comparative slavery, race and nation in the Atlantic world, comparative world history, the history of Brazil, and the history of South Africa. To date, my research has concentrated on the social and cultural histories of Africans …
I am a historian of ordinary people and their everyday experiences in early America. I have a particular interest in the lives of those who encountered various forms of oppression, such as women, the impoverished, and people of color. My work so far has focused specifically on the history of Afro-New Englanders, who were subjected …