Television interviews – Al Jazeera ‘Inside Story’, France 24, ITV ‘Good Morning Britain’, ORF (Austria), 3SAT (Germany), Sky News, TRT World.
Radio interviews – LBC.
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Director of Dissertations
My passion for Africa began during a study abroad year at the University of Zimbabwe. I have since become a historian of modern Africa, with my area of specialty being the history of Southern as well as East Africa, in particular Zimbabwe and Tanzania in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I have always had a decolonising approach to my research, teaching, and to my citizenship at my workplace. Currently, I am shifting my research agenda - not least taking accountability for my own positionality as a white European historian of African lives - to race and white privilege. My research and my publications are rooted in extensive fieldwork which includes undertaking oral history interviews as well as archival studies in Africa.
Current supervision
Previous supervision
Postgraduate research teaching/skills
I welcome PhD students in Modern African History. I encourage especially those intending to research Southern or East Africa who are interested in gender or conflict.
Undergraduate
Foundation Year – Contribution to Presenting and Representing
Part One Option - The Rwanda Genocide of 1994
Part Two Option - The Colonial Experience, Africa 1879 to 1980
Part Three Topic - Africa from European Settlement to Nelson Mandela (South Africa and Zimbabwe)
Part Three Subject - Gender in Africa
Part Three Dissertation Supervision
Postgraduate MA (postgraduate taught)
Option: Violence and Conflict in Twentieth Century Africa
Theory and Themes: Postcolonial History
Independent Study Supervision
Dissertation Supervision
Television interviews – Al Jazeera ‘Inside Story’, France 24, ITV ‘Good Morning Britain’, ORF (Austria), 3SAT (Germany), Sky News, TRT World.
Radio interviews – LBC.
The Conversation articles