PhD Candidate
Africa & Late Modern Europe
I am a historian of South Africa and the Soviet Union/Russia, with particular interests in comparative empire and decolonization; ideologies of racial and ethnic difference; global socialism and capitalism; area studies; and the international circulation of people, ideas, and arms.
I am completing a dissertation that is a political and intellectual history of connections between South Africa and the Soviet Union before, during, and after the simultaneous collapse of apartheid and socialism. My focus is a decades-long transnational conversation about the political meanings of race, nation, and ethnicity.
Publications
"The Peace Deal: The Formation of the Ingonyama Trust and the IFP Decision to Join South Africa's 1994 Elections," forthcoming with the South African Historical Journal, May 2021
"Secret details of the land deal that brought the IFP into the 94 poll," Mail & Guardian, 7 August 2019
Awards, Fellowships & Scholarships
2019 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship
2018 Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Dissertation Research Grant
2018 Reinhard Bendix Memorial Fellowship, UC Berkeley
2018 John L. Simpson Fellowship in International and Comparative Studies, UC Berkeley
2018 Center for African Studies Rocca Fellowship, UC Berkeley
2017 UC Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award
2016 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Russian
2013-14 History, Classics, and Archaeology Masters Scholarship, University of Edinburgh
2013-14 Sheila Cannell Postgraduate Scholarship, University of Edinburgh
2013 Marjorie Harris Weiss Award, Brown University
2013 Anne Crosby Emery Fellowship, Brown University
