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Education
TEMPLE
UNIVERSITY, PHILADELPHIA, PA
Ph.D.
History, defended 31 August 2015
Dissertation:
Building the Colonial Border Imaginary:
German Colonialism, Race, and Space in East Africa, 1884-1895
Advisor:
Jay Lockenour
Dissertation
Committee: Benjamin Talton, Temple University; Kathleen Biddick, Temple
University; Michelle Moyd, Indiana University
Teaching
in Higher Education Certification, 2013
Passed
comprehensive exams November 2011
Fields:
Europe and the world, Modern Europe, Modern Africa
UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ, SANTA CRUZ, CA
B.A.
European History, with honors, June 2007
Publications
“Changes
in German Travel Writing about East Africa, 1884-1891,” Colloquia Germanica 46, no. 2 (2013) – published in 2015. (In
press).
Review
of Slavery and Emancipation in Islamic
East Africa: From Honor to Respectability, by Elisabeth McMahon. Stichproben – Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien 27
(2014): 113-116.
Fellowships
and Grants
German Historical Institute
Conference Travel Grant, 2015
Temple University Senior Doctoral
Fellowship, 2014-2015
Columbia University Library
Research Travel Grant, 2013-2014
Okamoto Award, Temple University
Department of History, 2013-2014
Travel Award, Temple University
College of Liberal Arts, 2013, 2014
Hertog Program in Grand Strategy
Research Grant, 2013
Temple University Department of
History Travel Grant, 2012, 2013
Sergeant Major William F. Berger
Prize Endowed Fellowship for War and Society
Temple University, 2009-2010
Four-year Temple University
Teaching Assistantship, 2009-2013
Teaching Experience
As Instructor of Record:
Department of Humanities
University of the Sciences
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Spring 2016
Course: Hitler and Nazi Germany
Department of History
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Summer 2012, Spring 2013, Fall
2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2016
Courses: History of Nazi Germany;
Intermediate Writing Seminar in European History; Revolutionary Europe;
European History through Film; Modern Europe; Turning Points in Human History:
Modern World; Gender and World Societies
As Writing Instructor:
Department of History
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Spring 2011
Met with students in Junior-level
writing seminars individually to work on their research papers.
As Teaching Assistant:
Department of History
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA, USA
2009-2012
Courses taught: War and Peace,
Superpower America, Confronting Empire, World War Two
Supervising professors: Richard
Immerman, Jay Lockenour, Harvey Neptune, Gregory J.W. Urwin, Vladislav Zubok
Conferences and
Workshops
PAPERS PRESENTED
2015
"Drawing
and Redrawing Internal Legal Borders in German East Africa, 1885-1895,"
African Studies Association Conference, San Diego, November 2015
"ASMEA
and Changes in African Studies since September 11th, 2001,"
9/11 and the Academy Conference, Emory and Henry College, Emory, VA, November
2015
"Hinterland":
A German Word Becomes International in East Africa," German Studies
Association Conference, Washington, DC, October 2015
2014
"Reconstructing the Swahili Coast in the Wake
of the Bushiri War," African Studies Association Conference,
Indianapolis, November 2014
"Changes in Form and Content
of Reports of German Travel to East Africa,
1884–1895,"
German Studies Association Conference, Kansas City, September 2014
"Debating
the Future of German Empire: The Bushiri War and Emin Pasha Expeditions,
1888-1890," German Historical Institute Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in
German History, Washington, DC, May 2014
Attendance
sponsored by the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC
"Performing
the Conquest of Africa: Theatricality in the German Emin Pasha and
Bushiri
War Expeditions, 1889-1891," Stage and Performance – Theatricality in
International History since 1500 conference, Berlin, Germany, April 2014
Attendance
sponsored by the German Research Council
2013
"Intensive
or Extensive Colonization: The Debate Over French and British Models of Rule in
German East Africa, 1890-1894," African Studies Association Conference,
Baltimore, November 2013
"Expeditionary
Colonialisms in East Africa: The Hermann Wissmann and Emin Pasha Expeditions of
1889," German Studies Association Conference, Denver, October 2013
"Writing
the Divide between East and Central Africa: German Accounts of the Bushiri
Rebellion and the Emin Pascha Expedition of 1888-1890," Bridging Histories
of East and Central Africa Conference, Bayreuth, Germany, June 2013
Attendance
sponsored by Institute of African Studies, University of Bayreuth and Centre
for Area Studies, University of Leipzig
2012
"Making East Africa African:
The German Colonial Geography of the Swahili Coast," African Studies
Association Conference, Philadelphia, December 2012
"Race and Slavery"
Roundtable, African Scholar for a Day featuring Jonathon Glassman,
Philadelphia, November 2012
“Muslim and
Traditional Space in German East Africa,” German Studies Association
Conference, Milwaukee, October 2012
“Dreams of Yugoslavia in Africa: Sékou Touré’s and Julius Nyerere’s Regional Plans to Prevent ‘Balkanization,” James A. Barnes Club Graduate History Conference, Temple University, March 2012
2011
“Honkytonk Badonkadonk: The
Cultural Significance of Hip-Hop Music in White
(Mostly) American Culture,” James
A. Barnes Club Graduate History Conference, Temple University, March 2011
CONFERENCE ORGANIZER
James A. Barnes Club Graduate
Student Conference, Temple University, March 2012
COMMENTER
James A. Barnes Club Graduate
History Conference, Temple University, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015.
Academic Service
Temple University Graduate Student
Association, Co-President 2012-2013, Business Manager 2011, Treasurer 2010-2011
James A. Barnes Club, Temple
University Department of History Graduate Student Organization, Treasurer
2009-2010
Professional Memberships
African Studies Association,
American Historical Association, German Studies Association, Tanzanian Studies Association
Languages
German (fluent), French (good
reading knowledge), Spanish (reading knowledge)
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