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Welcome! I am a doctoral candidate in the history department at Syracuse University studying modern African history. I have taught a range of courses in the history department from discussion sections as a teaching assistant to my own courses on African history, Indian Ocean World history, and world history.

My research examines children and childhood in colonial Kenya. In particular, I look at debates over the idea of childhood from the late nineteenth century through the early 1960s. As a “living laboratory” Kenya served as an arena where Kenyan parents and children, colonial officials, and a range of international actors debated different frameworks of childhood. As this occurred throughout the colonial era, competing conceptions of childhood emerged and were a frequent point of conflict between various groups. I trace these events from the early years of colonization through controversies of coming-of-age, education, and labor into the final years of British rule. Through this, I show how Kenya served as a key space for the working through of larger global questions over rapidly changing considerations of children and childhood during the twentieth century.

On this website you will find more information about my research as well as my teaching. For more information on my research, please click on the research tab above. You will find a variety of material on my teaching within the teaching portfolio tab, including my teaching statement (teaching philosophy), sample syllabi, example assignments and graded material, and student evaluations. You will also find my contact information, a biographical sketch of me, and a copy of my current CV. You can navigate the website with the tool bar above.