History

CGII funding is contributing to a project addressing Swahili women’s roles from 600-1600 CE on the East African coast in the realms of agricultural production, cuisine, cultural transmission, craft production, and leadership.

My archaeological research in western Zambia studies daily life and interactional histories in ‘in-between’ places between emergent state systems in southern Africa from the 8th to the 18th centuries CE.

My project explores the ways Indigenous and Afro-Andean activists worked within, or were in conflict with, revolutionary class-based organizations in the Northern Andean region encompassing the countries of Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador during the 1920s and 1930s.

My project examines the experience of “Afro-Turks” in the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican periods. This project will frame these experiences within the context of race, migration, displacement, and the formation of nation-states in the wake of WWI.

America's Disappearing Chinatowns: A Case for Preservation is a project that examines the history, architecture, and proliferation of Chinatowns in the American urban landscape, chronicling their development in the U.S.

This study explores the relationship between Britain’s abolition of slavery in its Caribbean colonies (1838) and its instigation of the First Opium War with China (1839).

Brookes (Revisited) is the first design exhibition to accurately visualize the iconic 1788 drawing “Stowage of the British Slave Ship Brookes under the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788,” created by abolitionists and politicians using architectural techniques.

The book project, “Capitals in the Margins: South Asia Since Partition” seeks to answer why, despite the shared experience of colonial British rule and a shared investment in anticolonial nationalist movements, South Asia remains the least integrated region in the world.

How did British colonial efforts to expand “commodity frontiers” come to shape environmental changes on one hand and contestations over belonging, citizenship and territory on the other in South Asia?

My project explores Martin Luther King Jr’s highly publicized visit to both East and West Berlin. King arrived in September 1964, only a few months after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and just before he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.