2021-2024 Organizing Committee

Leslie Hadfield is a professor of African history at Brigham Young University. She holds a PhD from Michigan State University. Hadfield is the author of a number of articles, including a recent publication in the African Studies Review. She is also the author of A Bold Profession: African Nurses in Rural Apartheid South Africa (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021; HSRC Press, forthcoming) and Liberation and Development: Black Consciousness Community Programs in South Africa (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2016). 

Daren Ray is an assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University. He holds a PhD from the University of Virginia. His research has appeared in the Muslim World Journal.

David Bresnahan is an assistant professor of history at the University of Utah. He holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research has appeared in the Journal of East African Studies and the Journal of World History.