Publications
Books
Buying Time: Debt and Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean, Ohio University Press (2018)
Articles and Book Chapters
“Deeds of Freed Slaves: Manumission and Economic and Social Mobility in Pre-Abolition Zanzibar,” in
Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition, eds. Robert W. Harms, Bernard K. Freamon and David W. Blight, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013), 162-179.
“Trafficking in Persianness: Richard Burton between Mimicry and Similitude in Indian Ocean and Persianate Worlds,”
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, vol. 30, no. 3 (2010), 491-511.
“Being Baysar: (In)flexible Identities in East Africa,”
The MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies 5 (Fall 2005): 34-42.
Reviews
Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller, eds.
Women and Slavery. Volume I:
Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval Atlantic. Volume II:
The Modern Atlantic (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007), in African Studies Review, 53:1 (April 2010): 166-167.
Popular Publications and Media
“
A Century of HIV,”
Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective 12:3 (December 2018).
With Jesse Kwiek and Kathy Lancaster, “
HIV/AIDS: Past, Present and Future”
History Talk Podcast, December 2018.
“
Searching for Wakanda: The African Roots of the Black Panther Story,”
Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, 15 February 2018. (Republished by Quartz Digital Media as “
Black Panther’s Wakanda Has Historical Roots in Nuclear-age Congo” 27 February 2018).
