About Me

I am a full-time Lecturer in History & Literature and Assistant Editor at the International Journal of African Historical Studies where I have the privilege of helping authors improve their research and writing for publication. Prior to joining the Hist&Lit team in fall 2022, I taught college writing courses for six years, including topical first-year writing seminars, advanced interdisciplinary writing, and advanced writing in the sciences. As a transnational historian trained in African Studies, my work blends history and ethnography and I enjoy drawing on this background to help students explore the possibilities of interdisciplinary research and writing. My research, editorial work, and teaching are all shaped by my commitment to the challenging yet critical work of decolonizing knowledge production in the academe and beyond. As an educator, I am especially passionate about helping students become self-reflective learners and researchers, able to transfer their Hist&Lit skills in critical thinking, analysis, information literacy, writing, and argumentation to other areas of their professional and civic lives. This fall I will be teaching a new Oral History research seminar as a new Foundations Course in the Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship and look forward to working with juniors and seniors working across Hist&Lit fields to help them identify and execute their research and writing goals. In Spring 2024 I will be offering an exciting new course on histories of student activism in global perspective that will give students the opportunity to develop skills of digital storytelling. 

My work has been published in Gender & History, the South African Historical Journal, and at Africasacountry.com. You can read examples of my work here and here. I am currently working on a few different projects in Afro-Portuguese history; motherhood, the humanities, and academic job insecurity and; anti-war activism, nonviolence, and family history.