2022 Participants

Brooke Bocast is an assistant professor of Anthropology at Montana State University. She is the author of 'If Books Fail, Try Beauty': Educated Womanhood in the New East Africa (Oxford University Press, in press).

Jonathan Botes is a PhD student in history at the University of the Witswatersrand.

Lindsay Braun is an associate professor of African history at the University of Oregon. His work primarily concerns South Africa, and is the author of Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa 1850-1913 (Leiden: Brill, 2015) as well as a number of articles and chapters.

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 and the Journal of World History.   

Chris Conte is an associate professor of African and environmental history at Utah State University. He is the author of Highland Sanctuary: Environmental History in Tanzania's Usambara Mountains (Ohio UP, 2004). His recent work has appeared in History in Africa and Agricultural History.

Christopher P. Davey is the Charles E. Scheidt Visiting Assistant Professor at Clark University. He holds a PhD from the University of Bradford. His research is published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence and the Journal of African Military History. 

Yadhav Deerpaul is a PhD Student researching the environmental and technological histories of Indian Ocean's small islands. His research on the construction of railways in Mauritius and Réunion has been recently published in La Revue d'histoire des chemins de fer.  

Jeff Glenn is an assistant professor of Public Health at Brigham Young University. He holds a DrPH from Harvard and an MPA from the University of Southern California. His recent research has appeared in the International Journal of Public Leadership and the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 

Melissa Graboyes is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oregon, where she also directs the African Studies Program. She earned her PhD at Boston University and is the author of The Experiment Must Continue: Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa (Ohio UP, 2015) and a co-editor of the award-winning Africa Every Day: Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent (Ohio UP, 2019). She is currently completing a 5-year NSF funded project on the history of malaria elimination attempts in Africa.  

Leslie Hadfield is a 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, 2021). 

Erin Hazan is a PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand History Department, funded through the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Fellowship. She is currently conducting research into expressions of gender for women prisoners, imprisoned in the Transvaal during the twentieth century. 

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). 

Myles Osborne is an associate professor of History at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received his PhD from Harvard University and began his career working on East Africa. His more recent work includes looking at connections between Africa and the Caribbean during the twentieth century. He is the author of Ethnicity and Empire in Kenya: Loyalty and Martial Race among the Kamba, c. 1800 to the Present (Cambridge, 2014). 

Abigail Meert is an assistant professor of history of Africa and the Global South at Albion College. She holds a PhD from Emory University. Her work has appeared in the International Journal of African Historical Studies. 

Muey Saeteurn is an associate professor of African history at University of California, Merced. She holds a PhD from Washington University in Saint Louis and is the author of Cultivating Their Own: Agriculture in Western Kenya during the "Development" Era (University of Rochester, 2020).  

Jennifer Tappan is an associate professor of African history at Portland State University. She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and is the author of The Riddle of Malnutrition: The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda (Ohio University Press, 2017).   

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).