Present Appointment

Queen Mary University of London

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Politics and International Relations, September 2022-present

Fellow, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, September 2022-August 2025

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Previous Appointments

Reviews Editor, Africa (Cambridge University Press), the International Africa Institute, hosted by SOAS, July 2021-August 2024

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London School of Economics

Visiting Fellow, Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa, August 2019-March 2022

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University College London

Lecturer (Teaching), History Department; Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, September 2017-August 2022

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University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Africana Studies, July 2016-June 2017

Lecturer, The Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies and the Department of History, June 2015-July 2016

Summer Regional Program Director, The Lauder Institute, Summers 2015-2016

Postdoctoral Researcher, The Lauder Institute and Department of History, June 2013-June 2015

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Education

Stanford University

PhD in  History — June 2013

MA in  History — June 2010​

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