2020 Participant Biographies

Chase Arnold is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley.

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

John Clune is an associate professor of history at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado. He holds a PhD from the University of Kansas, and is the author of The Abongo Abroad: Military-Sponsored Travel in Ghana, the United States, and the World, 1959-1992 (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2017).

Christopher Davey holds a PhD from the University of Bradford. His research has appeared in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 

Dima Hurlbut holds a PhD from Boston University. His research has appeared in the Journal of Mormon History and International Journal of African Historical Studies. 

Leslie Hadfield is an associate professor of African history at Brigham Young University. She holds a PhD from Michigan State University, and is the author of African Nurses Working in Rural South Africa, 1960s-1990s (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, forthcoming).

Doug Leonard is an assistant professor of history at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado. He holds a PhD from Duke University, and is the author of Anthropology, Colonial Policy and the Decline of French Empire in Africa (London, UK: Bloomsbury, 2020).

Abigail Meert is an assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University. She holds a PhD from Emory University. 

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 and History in Africa. He is also the author of Ethnicity, Identity, and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean East Africa (Ohio UP, 2023).

Thaddeus Sunseri is a professor of history at Colorado State University. He holds a PhD is from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and is the author of Wielding the Ax: Scientific Forestry and Social Conflict in Tanzania c. 1820-2000 (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2013).

Caitlin Tyler-Richards is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Peter Vale is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley.

Stephanie Wolfe is an associate professor of political science at Weber State University. She holds a PhD from the University of Kent, and is the author of The Politics of Reparations and Apologies (New York, NY: Springer, 2014).