Assistant Professor
Education
- Ph.D., University of South Florida
- M.A., University of South Florida
- B.A., University of Central Florida
Academic and Research Interests
British Empire, Africa and the Caribbean, imperialism and decolonization, history of medicine and global health.
My research focuses on how health and medicine were used as “tools of empire” by the British Empire, as well as how people across the African diaspora challenged efforts to control their bodies and labor. I am currently working on a book project about the history of epidemics in Barbados from the early modern period to the twentieth century.
I am also the director of The Bahamas Oral History Project, which documents the history of education and nation-building in The Bahamas and the unique relationship between The Bahamas and CSB SJU.
Finally, I am the co-director of the Great River Covenants Project, a multi-institution collaboration to research the history and legacies of racially restrictive covenants in Central Minnesota.
Teaches
- HIST 142B: Europe since 1750
- HIST 180: Sex, Race, and Medicine
- HIST 278: Sex, Murder, and Empire: Britain
- HIST 279E: Global Health, Culture, and Inequality
- HIST 295F: Avengers: The Haitian Revolution
- HIST 305: Medicine, Empire, and Global Health
- HIST 328: Missionaries and Empire in Africa
- HIST 329: Guns, Gold, and Slaves: Africa and the British Empire
- HONR 360A: Community Histories
Publications
“Insecurities of Empire: Struggles over Health Reform in Interwar Barbados,” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 18:3 (Winter 2017)
“‘Making His Way to the Heart of India’: British Missionaries, Indian Nationalism, and Religious Belonging in Post World War I India.” British Scholar 3:1 (September 2010)
Recent Grants
“National Endowment for the Humanities Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education Grant, “Racial Covenants and Humanities Education in Central Minnesota.” 2024
Folger Institute Fellowship, “Epidemics and Systems of Racialization in Barbados, 1647-1854,” 2024