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Education: Ph.D., University
of California Los Angeles, 2001.
Research Interests: Southern Africa; Science, Technology and Medicine; Cultural Studies; Gender Studies; Public History; and Globalization
Recent Publications:
- Negotiating Tradition: African Healers, Medical Competition, and Cultural Exchange in South Africa, 1820-1948 (U. of Ohio Press, forthcoming 2008)
- "Indian-African Encounters:
Polyculturalism & African Therapeutics in Natal, South Africa,
1820-1948." Journal of Southern African
Studies. (32.2:June 2006)
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(with J. Parle) “Healers, Witchcraft, and Madness” in Zulu Identities: Being Zulu Past & Present ( U of KwaZulu-Natal Press: forthcoming 2007)
- "Competition, Race and Professionalization: African Healers and White Medical Practitioners in Natal , South Africa in the Early Twentieth Century" Social History of Medicine vol. 14. No 2. August 2001.
Current
Projects:
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(with D. Johnson) "Toils of Empire: Medicine, 'Malingering' and Indian Indentured Labor in Natal, South Africa 1860-1910"
- Research on the rise & destruction of Charlotte's Brooklyn neighborhood
- Brooklyn Oral History Project
Courses Taught:
- HIST 2100 Comparative Slaveries in African History
- HIST 2100 Ethnicity & Identity in Africa
- HIST 2210 Pre-colonial Africa
- HIST 2211 Modern Africa
- HIST 3000 Africa & Globalization
- HIST 3002 Health & Healing in Africa
- HIST 4002 Sex, Lies, & Colonialism in Africa
- HIST 6000 Oral History
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