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Education
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 2016 – Present
- Doctoral candidate in History (In progress)
- Major Field: African History; Minor Fields: Modern South Asian History, Modern European History
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, 2014-2016
- Masters of Arts in History, awarded May 2016
- Fields: Global, Sub-Saharan Africa
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, 2012-2014
- Bachelors of Arts, awarded May 2014
- Major: History; Minor: Community Leadership and Civic Engagement
- Graduated summa cum laude
Rock Valley College, Rockford, IL, 2010-2012
- Associates of Arts, awarded May 2012
- Graduated with highest honors
Book Reviews
Review of Keetie Roelen, Richard Morgan, Yisak Tafere, Eds. Putting Children First: New Frontiers in the Fight Against Child Poverty in Africa. Stuttgart: ibidem, 2019. In H-Africa (H-Net Review)
Review of Nina Berman. Germans on the Kenyan Coast: Land, Charity, and Romance. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2017. In African Studies Quarterly (Forthcoming).
Review of G. Ugo Nwokeji. The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra: An African Society in the Atlantic World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. In the Igbo Studies Review 3 (2015): 215-217.
Research and Presentations
“Settler Children and a Reconsideration of White Prestige in Early Colonial Kenya,” Syracuse University 14th Annual Graduate Conference of the Department of History March 24th, 2023
“Whose Children? Competing Conceptions of Childhood in Colonial Kenya,” Syracuse University History Department Workshop, November 18th, 2022
“Laboring Children: The Contested uses of Child Labor in Colonial Kenya”
African Studies Association 64th Annual Meeting
November 20th, 2021.
“Children’s law in the Early Decades of Colonial Rule in Kenya,” Syracuse University HGSO Research Expo, October 21st, 2022.
“Childhood and the Politics of Language Education in Colonial Kenya”
Conference presentation at the Fourth Annual Stony Brook Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference.
September 11th, 2020.
“Disputed Educations: The Fight over Kikuyu Youth Studying at Makerere University during the Mau Mau Uprising.”
Conference Presentation at the 41st Annual Susman History Graduate Student Conference
April 5th, 2019
“The Desire for Uninhabited Lands: The Ethnic Cleansing of the Nandi during the 1905-06 Nandi Expedition.”
Conference Presentation at the 34th Annual Ohio Valley History Conference
October 20, 2018
“Misremembered Violence: Why the 1905-1906 Nandi Punitive Expedition Should be Remembered as an Ethnic Cleansing.”
Conference Presentation at the Syracuse University History Graduate Student Conference
March 23, 2018
“Forgotten Actors: Rethinking the Role of Kikuyu Women and Girls in the 1928-1931 Kenyan Female Circumcision Controversy.”
Conference Presentation at the Syracuse University History Graduate Student Conference
March 24, 2017
“Public or Private? Situating Constructions of the Body in the Kenyan Female Circumcision Controversy.”
Symposium Presentation at the Marquette University History and English Graduate Student Speaking Series
April 8, 2016
“A Female Nationalist Space: How Kikuyu Women Used the 1928-1931 Kenyan Female Circumcision Controversy to grow the Kikuyu Nationalist Movement.”
Conference Presentation at the University of Illinois Women’s and Gender History Symposium
March 12, 2016
“Shoot to Kill: The Intersection of Evolutionary Justifications of African Inferiority and the Use of the Weapons of New Imperialism.”
Conference Presentation at the Marquette University Humanities Conference
April 25, 2015
“Helpful or Harmful? The United Nations and the Angolan Civil War, 1975-2002.”
Conference Presentation at the Northern Illinois University History Graduate Student Conference
November 7, 2014
“Fighting Against Racial Construction of Workers: Mother Jones and the Global Context of the “Ludlow Massacre” of 1914.”
Poster Presentation at the Northern Illinois Undergraduate Research and Artistry Day
April 22nd, 2014
“Access for All: Higher Education Accessibility for Europeans with Disabilities.”
Poster Presentation at The 2014 National Conference of Undergradaute Research
April 3rd, 2014
“Continuing Movement: The Effects of the CRPD on Higher Education for Persons with Disabilities in Europe and Beyond.”
Presentation at DeKalb Area Non-Profit Research and NGOLD Student Research Symposium
December 5th, 2013
Teaching Experience
Instructor of Record at Saint Mary’s University, Minnesota
H251 – Histories of Religion: Islam, Fall 2022
Instructor of Record at Syracuse University
IRP 413 – Global Diplomacy Practicum: Model United Nations (As Replacement Instructor), Fall 2022
HST 122 – World History since 1750, Summer 2022
HST 200 – History of the Early Modern and Modern Indian Ocean World, Spring 2021
HST 214 – African History Since 1800, Spring 2019
Teaching Assistant at Syracuse University
World History since 1750, Springs 2018 and 2022
World History to 1750, Falls of 2017, 2018, 2020, and 2021
Teaching Assistant at Marquette University
History of Africa, Spring 2016
Growth of Western Civilization to 1715, Spring 2015 – Fall 2015
Growth of Western Civilization since 1715, Fall 2014
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant at Northern Illinois University
Introduction to Public Service, Spring 2014
Public Humanities Experience
Given Podcast Talks and Interviews
Evoking History Podcast – Africanist Round Table
October, 2020
Evoking History Podcast – Competing Conceptions of Childhood in Colonial Kenya
June, 2020
Humanities New York Reading and Discussion Series Program Facilitator
In Cold Blood: True Crime, an American Genre, Spring 2019
Serving, Fall 2018
Pulitzer “Campfire” Readings: Reaching for the American Dream, Spring 2018
American Politics and Community Today, Fall 2017
National History Day Judge
Central New York Region, 2018-2019, 2022-2023
Greater Milwaukee Region, 2015-2016
Honors and Awards
Syracuse University Nelson Blake Prize , 2019
Syracuse University 2017-18 Hotchkiss Prize, 2018
Syracuse University Alan K. Smith Award, 2017
North American Conference on British Studies International M.A. Essay Prize, 2016
Marquette University Prucha-Theoharis Outstanding Graduate Student Award (History MA), 2016
Syracuse University, University Fellowship, 2016
Phi Alpha Theta Golden Key Award, 2014
Rhodes Scholarship District X Finalist, 2013
Oscar Matasar History Scholarship and Award, 2013
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