Faculty Detail

Education

Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, 2011

M.A., Washington University in St. Louis, 2008 

B. A., Grinnell College, 2001

Teaching

HIS 100: The World to 1500 

HIS 101: The World Since 1500

HIS 290: Historical Methods

HIS 321: Africa, Human Origins to 1800

HIS 322: Modern Africa, 1800 to Present

HIS 429: Slavery in World History

HIS 429: Sport, Nationalism and Citizenship in 20th Century Africa

HIS 431: South Africa

Publications

"There is No One-Plan-Fits-All in Education." In Saving Our Schools: The Case for Public Education: Saying No to "No Child Left Behind, edited by Ken Goodman, et al. Berkeley, CA: RDR Books, 2004.

"No Ordinary Conference: A History of the Midwest Conference." Written with George Drake. 2008.

Service

Africana Studies and History Department Webmasters, 2013-present

Reader for Scholarship Applications for Study Abroad, 2012-present

History Department Curriculum Committee, 2012-present

Conference Committee, Race, Reason and Resistance, Oct 2012

International Studies Advisory Committee, 2012-present

History Department, Paper Awards Committee, 2011-present

Africana Studies Committee, 2011-present

Cultural and Intellectual Climate Committee, 2012-present

Grants

National History Center, Decolonization Seminar, Summer 2013

Faculty Research Program, SUNY Cortland (2012-13)

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship (2008-09)

R. W. Davis Travel Grant, Washington University History Department (2006, 07, 09)

Pre-Dissertation Grant, Washington University International and Area Studies (2007)

Humanities Digital Workshop, Washington University, Summer Fellowship (2008)