Graduate Student, African and African American Studies
Thesis Title: “‘A World of Their Own’: Education for Exemplary Womanhood in South Africa, 1869 to Recent Times.”
Emmanuel Akyeampong
Caroline Elkins
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
About
I am a Ph.D. candidate in African Studies, training as a social historian of modern southern Africa. My research interests center on comparative and transnational history, with a focus on American-South African connections; history of colonial and post-colonial African social institutions and public culture; history of the family; and gender, sexuality, and colonialism. I am currently completing my dissertation, “‘A World of Their Own’: Education for Exemplary Womanhood in South Africa, 1869 to Recent Times,” which examines the endurance and social significance of an influential American-founded high school for African women. With support from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, I spent the 2008-2009 academic year conducting archival and oral research for this project in KwaZulu-Natal. At Harvard, I have served as Head Teaching Fellow for Caroline Elkins' core course in modern African history, and as Tutor for History Department research seminars on international society and on African-Asian connections. I received an A.B. in History from the University of Chicago in 2005 and my A.M. in History from Harvard in 2007.
Contact Information
Department of African and African American Studies
Harvard University
12 Quincy Street, Floor 2
Cambridge, MA 02138
