Curriculum Vitae Highlights
Education:
Ph.D Washington University in St. Louis
African History, May 2011
Dissertation: 'If We Govern Ourselves, Whose Son is to Govern Us?': Youth, Nationalism and the 1960s in Lesotho
Committee: Timothy H. Parsons (chair), Jean Allman, Lori Watt, Mary Ann Dzubach, Shanti Parikh, Nathan Jensen
BA Grinnell College
History with honors and a secondary education certificate,
Publications:
Book:
The Desire for Development: Foreign Assistance, Independence, and Dreams for the Nation in Lesotho (tentative title)
Forthcoming early 2018 from the University of Notre Dame Press
Journal Articles:
“Self-Help Development Projects and Conceptions of Independence in Lesotho, 1950s-1970s” International Journal
of African Historical Studies 50:1 (2017) 11-33
“Introduction: Localizing the History of Development” International Journal of African Historical Studies 50:1 (2017) 1-9
(co-authored with Leslie Hadfield)
Development, Politics, and Public Perceptions of Independence in Lesotho, 1960-1970, The Journal of African History
55:3 (Nov 2014), 401-421.
Homemakers, Communists and Refugees: Smuggling Anti-Apartheid Refugees in Rural Lesotho in the 1960s and 1970s
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender Studies 13 (2015), 183-209
Grants/Fellowships:
US Department of Education National Resource Center Grant, thought the African Studies Center at MSU,
Course Development, Summer 2017
Michigan State University Humanities and Arts Research Program (HARP) Grant, 2017
Participant, National History Center's Decolonization Seminar, Summer 2013
Faculty Research Grant, SUNY Cortland, 2012-13
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, 2008-09
R.W. Davis Travel Grant, Washington University in St. Louis, 2006, 2007, 2009
Pre-Dissertation Grant, International and Area Studies Department, Washington University in St. Louis, 2007
Teaching Experience:
Michigan State University, Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH), 2014-present
RCAH 192: Proseminar: Malcolm X in Lansing
RCAH 192: Urban Renewal in Lansing
RCAH 202: The Presence of the Past: Global Slavery
RCAH 203: Transcultural Relations: Sport, Leisure and Nationalism in 20th Century Africa
RCAH 380: 3rd Year Seminar: Decolonization
SUNY Cortland, 2011-2014
HIS 100: The World to 1500
HIS 101: The World Since 1500
HIS 290: Sophomore Seminar: Decolonization
HIS 321: African History, Origins to 1800
HIS 322: Modern Africa, 1800 to Present
HIS 429: Slavery in World History
HIS 429: Sport and Nationalism in 20th Century Africa
HIS 431: South Africa
Washington University in St. Louis
Instructor: History 1053: Sport and Nationalism in 20th Century Africa, Fall 2010
Teaching Assistant, Washington University in St. Louis, 2006-2010
Introduction to World History
Gender, Sexuality and Change in Africa
High School Teacher, Kwethluk, Alaska 2003-2005
High School Teacher, St. Rodrigue, Lesotho 2002