About
Broadly defined, my scholarly interests cluster thematically around gender, religion, and empire. Geographically my interests are in southern Africa, western Europe, and are transnational/Global. Temporally, I can be found mostly in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
My dissertation and first monograph research focused on the history of several generations of African families associated with the Brethren in Christ Church of Zimbabwe.
Of late, I have developed a strong complementary interest in the Great War in Global perspective and also with respect to the experiences of Africans and the African Diaspora.
I educate students who aspire to become secondary-school history teachers, and teach them both their graduate-level Global History courses as well as history-teaching methods. Education
Ph.D., History; Columbia University
M.A., History; The University at Albany
Secondary Education certification program, State University of New York at New Paltz
Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria VA (first year of M.Div. completed)
The University of Hamburg (D.A.A.D. fellow; Modern History)
B.A., History; cum laude; Carleton College Publications
The Gender of Piety: Faith, Family, and Colonial Rule in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe. Ohio University Press, 2015. Projects
History for the Twenty-First Century (H21) – Africans and the African Diaspora in the Great War
