Affiliated Faculty

- Title
- Associate Professor
- History Graduate Program Director
- Co-director, Center for Cultural Studies
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- History Department
- Affiliations Research Center for the Americas, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- Phone 831-459-4060 (office)
- Office Location
- Stevenson College Academic Building, 214 Stevenson Academic
- Office Hours Winter 2020: By appointment (via Zoom)
- Mail Stop Stevenson Academic Services
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, European Studies, Africa and African Studies, African Diaspora, Colonialism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Urban studies
- Courses HIS 2B - The World Since 1500, HIS 101C - Oceans in World History, HIS 101E - The Global 1930s, HIS 181 - Modern Britain and the British Empire, HIS 181A / ANTH110O - Postcolonial Britain and France, HIS 181B - Africa and Britain in an Imperial World, HIS 196H - Sex and the City: History of Sexuality in Urban Areas around the Globe, HIS 202 - Practicing World History (Graduate Course), HIS 203 - Global Decolonization (Graduate Course), HIS 251B - Readings in Modern European History: Empire (Graduate Course)
Research Interests
Modern Britain and the British Empire; Black European Studies; Modern European cultural, social, and intellectual history; Black Atlantic; women's and gender history; history of sexuality; and world history
Biography, Education and Training
B.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
M.A., University of Colorado, Boulder
Ph.D., Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Selected Publications
- The Global 1930s: The International Decade. Co-authored with Susan Kingsley Kent. London: Routledge, 2017.
- Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the 20th Century. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015.
- The Women's War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria. Co-authored with Misty L. Bastian and Susan Kingsley Kent. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- “Black Intellectuals in the Imperial Metropolis and the Debate over Race and Empire in Sanders of the River.” Brave New World: Imperial and Democratic Nation-building in Britain between the Wars. Laura Beers and Geraint Thomas, eds. London: Institute of Historical Research, 2012.
- “An Empire of Development: Africa and the Caribbean in God’s Chillun.” Special Issue on “The Documentary Film Movement and the Spaces of British Identity.” Twentieth Century British History 23, 1 (March 2012).
- “Colonial Subjects: Black Intellectuals and the Development of Colonial Studies in Britain.” Journal of British Studies 49, 2 (April 2010): 388-418.