Werdegang
Education
May 2018
Princeton University, PhD in History
Dissertation: “An Uncommon Standard: A Social and Intellectual History of Swahili, 1864-1925”
September 2013
Princeton University, MA in History
Fields: Pre-Colonial Africa; Modern Africa; Islam and the Indian Ocean
May 2008
Yale University, BA in History
Academic career
Fall 2018 – Present
Mississippi State University, Assistant Professor
2017-2018
Princeton University, Pre-doctoral Lecturer, Writing Program
Honors and awards
January 2020-June 2022
Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers,
Berlin, Germany
2019
Strategic Research Initiative Seed Funding,
Mississippi State University College of Arts & Sciences
2019
Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant for Research in European, African, or Asian History,
American Historical Association
2018
Graduate Teaching Award, Princeton University
2017-2018
Quin Morton Teaching Fellowship, Princeton Writing Program
2016-2017
Graduate Fellow, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
Dissertation writing grant
2016-2017
Graduate Research Fellow, Princeton Center for the Study of Religion
Dissertation writing grant
May 2012
Research Grant
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
Archival research
June 2012 and September 2013-February 2014
Zanzibar National Archives
May-June 2019
Tanzania National Archives
June-July 2019
British National Archives
June-July 2019
SOAS Special Collections
July 2012; February-July 2014; July 2019
Bodleian Libraries, Commonwealth and African Collections
University of Oxford,
Courses taught
Modern Africa (undergraduate survey)
African Civilizations (undergraduate survey)
Imperialism and Colonialism in Africa (graduate seminar)
Africa in the History of Science (graduate seminar)
Imperialism, Independence, and Post-Colonial Nation Building (graduate seminar)
Histories of Time (graduate seminar)
Comparative Slavery (graduate seminar)
Justice After Empire (freshman seminar)