I am historian of twentieth-century social movements with a specialization in Black internationalism, transnational movements, and radical organizing throughout North America, Africa, and the broader Black world. I am interested in conceptual and political histories of anti-apartheid, decolonization, African diaspora, Blackness and Black consciousness, anti-colonialism, and abolition.

I earned my doctorate in History and African American Studies from Yale University in 2022 where I was awarded the Sylvia Ardyn Boone prize for best dissertation in African and African American art and culture. I was formerly a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Black Studies at Northwestern University, a dissertation fellow in UCSB’s Department of Black Studies, and a History Workshop fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.  I hold master’s degrees in International and World History from Columbia University and the London School of Economics, where I wrote my thesis on the international student anti-apartheid movement. I also earned a master’s degree in Education from Fordham University in New York City, where I worked as a special education teacher for the U.S. Department of Education at a middle school in the South Bronx. I received my AB in Classics and International Studies from Dartmouth College in 2011.

My research has been supported by the Black Studies Department at Northwestern University, the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University, the Black Metropolis Research Center, the Newcombe Foundation at the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, the UCSB Department of Black Studies, the U.S. Fulbright Program, the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Foundation, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) as well as the History Department, the African American Studies Department, the MacMillan Center, and International Security Studies at Yale University.

Since 2020, I have been a host of the New Books in African American Studies podcast channel on the New Books Network.

Peer-reviewed articles

Textbooks

  • “Student Activism against Apartheid in the United States” invited submission in Finding the Struggle: Radical Movements in Neoliberal United States, 1970-2001. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2020.

Podcasts features

New Books Network podcast interviews hosted by me:

 

  • HIST 169B African American History since 1865 (undergraduate lecture course)
  • HIST 169R African American and African Diaspora (undergraduate research seminar)
  • HIST 9 Global Anti-Apartheid (undergraduate lecture course)
  • HIST 171D US and the World after 1945: US Foreign Policy & African Decolonization (undergraduate lecture course)

New Courses (25-26)

  • HIST 201AM 20th C African American and African Diaspora (graduate seminar)
  • 2024 – 2025 Black Star Assistant Professorship, UCSB Department of Black Studies
  • 2024  The Op-Ed Project Public Voices Fellowship, UCSB
  • 2023  Black Metropolis Research Center Fellowship, University of Chicago
  • 2022  Postdoctoral Fellowship in African American Studies, Northwestern University
  • 2021   Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship, Institute for Citizens and Scholars
  • 2020  Black Studies Dissertation Fellowship, University of California Santa Barbara
  • 2019   History Workshop Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
  • 2018   Fulbright U.S. Student Fellowship (Johannesburg, South Africa)
  • 2017   Digital Humanities Teaching Fellowship, Yale University
  • 2016   Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship 
  • 2014   Leadership for Educational Equity Fellowship                                              
  • 2009  Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship