About Me

I am a sixth-year PhD candidate in African history at Yale, engaging in histories of liberation movements and decolonization in Southern Africa. My dissertation tracks the fraught solidarities forged by South African ANC exiles and other anti-apartheid figures in Tanzania from 1961 to 1992. Combining social and political history, oral history and multi-sited archival research, I seek to understand the granular, everyday experiences of solidarity-building in exile. My past academic work took me to Johannesburg, where I researched queer activist Simon Nkoli. My research has been generously funded by Fulbright-IIE, the American Historical Association, and the Gilder Lehrman Center.