Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Historian teaching African Studies, History, and mostly African history. Historian of cross-border relations and belonging in the Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Guinea borderlands. Teacher of African History and Geography.
Teaching African History and Geography.
PhD with expertise in African History, World History, Comparative Colonial History, and the History of the Islamic World. Awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship for the 2016-17 academic year and a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2019-20 academic year. My dissertation, defended with distinction, focused on the relationship between Pulaar-speakers (Fulbe) across the Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, and Guinea borders, and situates Fulbe people as part of transnational social, economic, religious, and political networks, as well as through their integration into these nation-states. It explored the ways in which Fulbe people have integrated themselves or lived outside of colonial and post-colonial states.