EDUCATION
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Ph.D. History, December 2015
Dissertation: Building the Colonial Border Imaginary: German Colonialism, Race, and Space in East Africa, 1884-1895. Advisor: Jay Lockenour. Dissertation Committee: Benjamin Talton, Temple University; Kathleen Biddick, Temple University; Michelle Moyd, Indiana University
Teaching in Higher Education Certification, 2013
University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
B.A. European History, with honors, June 2007
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Washington State University, Pullman, WA
2016-present Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Department of History
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2012-2016 Adjunct Faculty, Department of History
University of the Sciences, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Adjunct Faculty, Department of History
PUBLICATIONS
Book Manuscript
Geographies of Empire: German Colonialism, Race, and Space in East Africa, 1884-1905. In progress.
Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters
2018 “Emin Pasha and the German Imagination of the Heart of Darkness,” in After the Imperialist Imagination: 25 Years of Research on Global Germany and Its Legacies, eds. Sara Pugach, David Pizzo, and Adam Blackler (New York: Peter Lang).
“Re-Inventing the Heart of Darkness for the 21st Century: African Studies and the War on Terror since 9/11,” in 9/11 and the Academy: Responses in the Liberal Arts and the 21st-Century World, ed. Mark Finney and Matt Shannon (Boulder: University of Colorado Press).
2017 “Men of Science and of Action: The Celebrity of Explorers and German National Identity, 1870-1895,” Central European History 50, no. 3 (September 2017).
2016 “Changes in German Travel Writing about East Africa, 1884-1891,” Colloquia Germanica 46, no. 2 (2016): 266-283.
“Colonialism as the State of Exception: German Colonialism and Schmittian Sovereignty.” In progress.
Book Reviews
2014 Review of Slavery and Emancipation in Islamic East Africa: From Honor to Respectability, by Elisabeth McMahon. Stichproben – Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien 27 (2014): 113-116.
Public Writing
2017 Blog series about Raphael Gross, Carl Schmitt and the Jews, George L. Mosse Program in History Blog, University of Wisconsin Madison. https://mosseprogram.wisc.edu/category/carl-schmitt-and-the-jews/.
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
2016-2017 Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant, American Historical Association
Research Grant, Central European History Society
2015-2016 Dr. Arthur N. Cook Award, Temple University
Travel Grant, German Historical Institute
2014-2015 Senior Doctoral Fellowship, Temple University
2013-2014 Library Research Travel Grant, Columbia University
Okamoto Award, Temple University Department of History
Travel Award, Temple University College of Liberal Arts
2012-2013 Research Grant, Hertog Program in Grand Strategy
Department of History Travel Grant, Temple University
2009-2010 Sergeant Major William F. Berger Prize Endowed Fellowship for War and Society, Temple University
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Conferences Organized
2015 The Scholar as Activist, the Activist as Scholar, Center for the Humanities at Temple, March 24, 2015
2012 James A. Barnes Club Graduate Student Conference, Temple University, March 16-17, 2012
Panels organized
2017 “Diplomacy and Imperialism in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany,” American Historical Association Conference, Denver, CO, January 5-8, 2017
Papers presented
2017 “Friedrich Ratzel and Human Geography in German East Africa,” German Studies Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 5-8, 2017
“Appropriating the Hinterland: The Indian Ocean World and German Colonial Geographies,” Spatialisation under the Global Condition Conference, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, September 29-October 2, 2017
“Protestant Culture versus African Superstition: Racial Thinking in Anglo-German Relations during the Maji Maji War, 1905-1907,” American Historical Association Conference, Denver, CO, January 5-8, 2017
2016 “Mapping Imperial Geographies in East Africa: Digital Mapping in African History,” Creating Spatial Historical Knowledge: New Approaches, Opportunities and Epistemological Implications of Mapping History Digitally, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, October 21, 2016
“Swahili Geographies and the Invention of Hinterland,” Greater New York African History Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, April 8, 2016
“The Charismatic Explorer and German (Pre-)Colonialism, 1870-1895,” Philadelphia Area Modern Germany Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, March 26, 2016
2015 “Drawing and Redrawing Internal Legal Borders in German East Africa, 1885-1895,” African Studies Association Conference, San Diego, CA, November 19-22, 2015
“ASMEA and Changes in African Studies since September 11th, 2001,” 9/11 and the Academy Conference, Emory and Henry College, Emory, VA, November 6-7, 2015
“Hinterland”: A German Word Becomes International in East Africa,” German Studies Association Conference, Washington, DC, October 1-4, 2015
2014 “Reconstructing the Swahili Coast in the Wake of the Bushiri War,” African Studies Association Conference, Indianapolis, November 20-23, 2014
“Changes in Form and Content of Reports of German Travel to East Africa, 1884–1895,” German Studies Association Conference, Kansas City, MO, September 18-21, 2014
“Debating the Future of German Empire: The Bushiri War and Emin Pasha Expeditions, 1888-1890,” German Historical Institute Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in German History, Washington, DC, May 7-10, 2014. Attendance sponsored by the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC
“Performing the Conquest of Africa: Theatricality in the German Emin Pasha and Bushiri War Expeditions, 1889-1891,” Stage and Performance – Theatricality in International History since 1500 conference, Berlin, Germany, April 28-30, 2014. Attendance sponsored by the German Research Council
2013 “Intensive or Extensive Colonization: The Debate Over French and British Models of Rule in German East Africa, 1890-1894,” African Studies Association Conference, Baltimore, MD, November 21-24, 2013
“Expeditionary Colonialisms in East Africa: The Hermann Wissmann and Emin Pasha Expeditions of 1889,” German Studies Association Conference, Denver, CO, October 3-6, 2013
“Writing the Divide between East and Central Africa: German Accounts of the Bushiri Rebellion and the Emin Pascha Expedition of 1888-1890,” Bridging Histories of East and Central Africa Conference, Bayreuth, Germany, June 7-8, 2013. Attendance sponsored by Institute of African Studies, University of Bayreuth and Centre for Area Studies, University of Leipzig
2012 “Making East Africa African: The German Colonial Geography of the Swahili Coast,” African Studies Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November 29-December 1, 2012
“Race and Slavery” Roundtable, African Scholar for a Day featuring Jonathon Glassman, Philadelphia, PA, November 28, 2012
“Muslim and Traditional Space in German East Africa,” German Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee, WI, October 4-7, 2012
Commentator
2011-2015 James A. Barnes Club Graduate History Conference, Temple University
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
100/1000-level courses
Roots of Contemporary Issues, Washington State University
Hitler and Nazi Germany, University of the Sciences
History of Nazi Germany, Temple University
Modern Europe, Temple University
Gender and World Societies, Temple University
Turning Points in Human History: Modern World, Temple University
200/2000-level courses
European History through Film, Temple University
300/3000-level courses
Intermediate Writing Seminar in European History, Temple University
Revolutionary Europe, Temple University
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Temple University Graduate Student Association, Co-President 2012-2013, Business Manager 2011, Treasurer 2010-2011
James A. Barnes Club, Temple University Department of History Graduate Student Organization, Treasurer 2009-2010
Reader, European History Advanced Placement Test, 2016
LANGUAGES
German (fluent)
French (good reading knowledge)
Spanish (can read with dictionary)
Swahili (basic)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Historical Association
Central European History Association
German Studies Association
Tanzanian Studies Association
