Teaching

At Smith College, I have taught a wide range of courses designed to introduce students to the study of Africa’s past and present. Key to each of my courses is an interrogation of the complexities and challenges–theoretical as well as methodological–in writing African histories.

Recent Courses Taught:

“The Historian’s Craft” (introduction to major); “Early African History to 1800” (survey); “Africa and the Making of the Modern World” (survey); “Modern Africa” (survey); “Independent Africa: A Social and Cultural History” (survey); “The Making of Colonial West Africa: Race, Power, and Society” (survey); “Decolonization, Nation, and Political Imagination in Africa” (colloquium); “Decolonization: A People’s History” (colloquium); “Discourses of Development” (colloquium); “Femininities, Masculinities, and Sexualities in Africa” (colloquium); “Global Africa” (colloquium); “Historians Read the News: Race, Democracy, and Reproductive Justice” (colloquium); “Historical Pedagogy” (practicum); “Sport in Modern Africa” (colloquium); “Women in African Colonial Histories” (colloquium); “Debating the African Past” (research seminar); “Themes in African Studies” (lecture); “Twentieth-Century Revolutions” (research seminar)