2019 Participant Biographies

Brooke Bocast is an assistant professor of anthropology at Montana State University. She holds a PhD from Temple University. Her research has appeared in City and Society.

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.

Kristen Carey is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Boston University. Her research has appeared in the Pardee Periodical.

Christopher Davey holds a PhD from the University of Bradford. His research has appeared in Peace, Conflict, and Development.

Lacy Ferrell is an assistant professor of history at Central Washington University. She holds a PhD from University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research has appeared in Children on the Move in Africa: Past and Present Experiences of Migration, ed. Elodie Razy and Marie Rodet (Woodbridge: James Currey, 2016).

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 Liberation and Development: Black Consciousness Community Programs in South Africa (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2016).

Dima Hurlbut is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Boston University. His research has appeared in the International Journal of African Historical Studies.

Cheikh Isselmou is a doctoral student in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona.

James McCann is a professor of history at Boston University. He holds a PhD from Michigan State University, and is the author of The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia: Deposing the Spirits (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015).

Bethany Rebisz is a doctoral researcher and sessional lecturer at the University of Reading.

Muey Saeteurn is an assistant professor of history at University of California, Merced. She holds a PhD from Washington University in Saint Louis. Her research has appeared in the Journal of African History.

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: Springer, 2014).