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EDUCATION
Ph.D. Department of History, New York University, New York, NY, 2015.
B.A. Department of History (honors), Hispanic Studies Minor, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie,
NY, 2006. Phi Beta Kappa.
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
PUBLICATIONS
In Preparation
Below the Archival Threshold: Oral Methods for Writing New Colonial and Post-
Imperial Histories.
Book Reviews
Review of Harry Gamble, Contesting French West Africa: Battles over Schools and the
Colonial Order (1900-1950) (University of Nebraska Press, 2017). French Politics,
Culture & Society. In preparation.
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Other Publications
In-Class Debates for Deeper Learning, Training Manual and Guidebook for TAs in
New York Universitys History Department, September 2015.
Imperial Pasts and Franco-African Futures: West African Catholic Education, 1946-
1975.
INVITED TALKS
upcoming Visual Analysis in the African History Classroom Teaching African History
Workshop, Columbia University, New York, NY. January 26.
2017 Nos anctres ne sont plus les gaulois [Our ancestors are no longer the Gauls]:
French Language and Education after Empire in West Africa, Alliance
Franaise, Providence, RI. November 12.
2017 Digital Tools and Archival Research Center for Jewish History. New York, NY.
October 19.
CAMPUS TALKS
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Conference Organized
Workshop Organized
2015 Teaching African History. Columbia University. New York, NY. January 30.
Panels Organized
upcoming Schools as Ideological Battle Grounds: UNESCO and Amadou Moctar MBow
in Senegal, Society for French Historical Studies. Pittsburgh, PA. March 8-10.
2017 The School Book War: Missionary Printing Presses and West African
Textbooks, African Studies Association. Chicago, IL. November 16-18.
2017 A Nation in Miniature: Lessons from Catholic Schools in 1960s and 1970s
Senegal and Benin. Education in Africa Conference. Providence, RI. March 10.
2015 The Priests Are Also Colonialists: French Catholic Missionary Schools in
Senegal, 1946-1960. African Studies Association. San Diego, CA. November
19-22.
2015 Between Church, State, and the Postcolony: Catholic Education in Senegal and
Benin. Greater New York African History Workshop, New Brunswick, NJ.
March 27.
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2015 Digital Tools: From the Archive to Publication. Roundtable panelist. American
Historical Association. New York, NY. January 2-5.
2014 A French School in Every Village: Postwar French Cultural Politics in West
Africa. Society for French Historical Studies. Montreal, QC, Canada. April 24-
27.
2014 Reforming Empire: Promoting Mass Education in Postwar French West Africa.
Symposium: New Perspectives on Postwar Empires in Africa, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. April 10-11.
2011 Debating French Christian Education in West Africa After World War II.
French Colonial Historical Society. Toronto, ON, Canada. June 2-4.
2011 Post-War Development and Social Politics in French West Africa: Re-examining
Colonial-Metropolitan Relations. Development Winter School of ETH Zurich,
Ascona, Switzerland. January 23-28.
Discussant
2015 Chair and Discussant. France and Africa in Global Perspective, African Studies
Association. San Diego, CA. November 19-22.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Comparative Education: International Trends and Local Perspectives (Fall 2015, Spring
2017, Spring 2018).
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Peer Review
The Journal of African History, 2016-present.
The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 2017-present.
To University
Secondary advisor, Senior Thesis, Language Debates in Cameroonian Education Reforms,
Liliana Hertling, Brown University. 2017-present.
Honors Thesis advised, The Education of Immigrant Youth in France, Katya Barrett, Brown
University. Winner of the Archambault Award for Outstanding Thesis, 2016-2017.
French to English translations for African asylum cases. Urban Justice Center, New York, NY.
2017-present
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
LANGUAGES
French, fluent.
Spanish, fluent.
Yoruba, intermediate.
Wolof, beginning.
REFERENCES
Frederick Cooper
Professor of History
New York University
King Juan Carlos Center
54 Washington Square South
Room 708
New York, NY 10012
Fred.cooper@nyu.edu
212.998.8606
Gregory Mann
Associate Professor of History
Columbia University
1180 Amsterdam Avenue
MC 2527
615 Fayerweather Hall
New York, NY 10027
g.mann@columbia.edu
212.854.3168
Jonathan Zimmerman
Professor of History of Education
Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania
3700 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
zimmj@gse.upenn.edu
215.898.5672
Kenneth Wong
Professor of Education
Brown University
340 Brook Street, Box 1938
Providence, RI 02912
Kenneth_Wong@brown.edu
401.863.1486
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Teaching Reference:
Nancy Jacobs
Professor of History
Box N, 202 Sharpe House
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Nancy_Jacobs@brown.edu
401.863.9342