Interests:Southern Africa 1750-1950, East Africa 1850-1960, Comparative Colonialism, Environmental History, History of Science and Technology (esp. geography)
Interests:Research focuses on intersection of gender, development, environment, and globalization, with a specific focus on the social and socio-environmental consequences of a large-scale World Bank funded dam development project in Lesotho, Southern Africa.
Interests:Culture and Development, Culturally Sustainable Development, Identity and Community, Political Legitimation, Multiple Forms of Modernity, Primary Field Work: West Africa, Secondary Field Work: Indonesia
Affiliated Departments:Black Studies, Dance, IRES, Music
Programs, Research and Outreach:Dance, Music History and Culture, Musicology and Ethnomusicology
Interests:Dance, West Africa, cultural studies, post-colonial independence history, political economy, oral history, African diaspora, new internationalism
Office Hours:Winter, 2024: Wednesdays, 2-4, and by appointment. Zoom by appointment only.
Affiliated Departments:African Studies, Black Studies, IRES, Latin American Studies, Portuguese, Spanish
Teaching Level:Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate
Interests:20th-21st Century Caribbean Literature, Latin American Literature, African Literature, Lusophone Literatures, Global South Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Race and Blackness, Critical Theory