About

ABOUT

My research centers on migration histories, historical methodologies, and intercultural encounters from the medieval to modern eras in Africa. I am currently working on a book manuscript which studies the oral and ritual histories of a Jewish community in western Ghana and how these narratives were tethered to the history of Jewish presence (physical and dialectic) throughout Northwest Africa. The project specifically contributes to our understanding of historical silences, legacies, and preservation and to uncovering the history of human migration and cultural interaction under duress.

The research was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Social Science Research Council, West African Research Association, the U.S. Dept. of Education’s Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles, among many others.

I am also interested in quotidian and isochronous methods of anti-colonial resistance among Ghanaian women and African migrants in Western Ghana, which will be the basis of my next project.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. History, University of California, Los Angeles

MA, History, University of California, Los Angeles

MA, African Studies, Indiana University

BA, History, University of Oklahoma

TEACHING

Winter 2025

HIST 219 – African Women as History Makers: from the Archive to the Zinkpo

HIST 232 – This is not a Drake Story: (Mis)Characterizations and (Mis)Caricaturizations of Black Judaism

Fall 2024

HIST 105 – Africa: Special Topics in African History, 1500-1900

HIST 301P – South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid