About
I earned both my Ph.D. (2020) and M.A. (2017) in history from Boston University, where I was a Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellow in Igbo. I received my B.A. (2014) from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon.
My research focuses on religious encounters in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly religious conversion and the expansion of American mission churches, and has been supported by an external fellowship from the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah (2018-2019). My scholarship has appeared in the International Journal of African Historical Studies and the Journal of Mormon History, and has been taught in history and religion courses at institutions such as the University of Utah and Whitman College.
I am a book review editor for H-Africa (2019- ), and the former managing editor of the African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review (2017-2020), and the co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Workshop on African History. Education
Ph.D. (History), Boston University (2020)
M.A. (History), Boston University (2017)
B.A. (History), Lewis and Clark College (2014) Work Shared in CORE
Articles
- “Where Do We Go from Here? Writing Children into African History,” African Studies Quarterly 16, no. 1
- “LDS Materials for the Study of Sub-Saharan Africa at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University,” Working Papers in African Studies, no. 273 (2020): 1-4.
- “Gobert Edet and the Entry of the RLDS Church into Southeastern Nigeria, 1962-1966,” Journal of Mormon History 45, no. 4 (2019): 81-104.
- “LDS Materials for the Study of Postcolonial Sub-Saharan Africa,” International Journal of African Historical Studies 52, no. 2 (2019): 301-310.
- “Materials for the Study of Postcolonial Africa in the LDS Church History Library: Oral Histories,” Working Papers in African Studies, no. 270 (2018): 1-19.
- “Materials for the Study of Postcolonial Africa in the LDS Church History Library: Manuscripts,” Working Papers in African Studies, no. 272 (2019): 1-18.
- “The History of Christianity in Nigeria: A Bibliography of Secondary Literature,” Working Papers in African Studies, no. 269 (2017): 1-46.
- “LDS Materials for the Study of Postcolonial Sub-Saharan Africa,” International Journal of African Historical Studies 52, no. 2 (2019): 301-310.
- “The LDS Church and the Problem of Race: Mormonism in Nigeria, 1946-1978,” International Journal of African Historical Studies 51, no. 1 (2018): 1-16
Book reviews
- Review of Taylor G. Petrey, Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism (Durham, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2020), Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 58, no. 4
- Review of P. Jane Hafen and Brenden W. Rensink (eds.), Essays on American Indian and Mormon History (Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2019), Nova Religio 24, no. 2
- Review of James H. Sweet, Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), Entremons: UPF Journal of World History 11
- Review of Timothy R. Landry, Vodún: Secrecy and the Search for Divine Power (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), African Studies Quarterly 19, no. 3
- Review of Lovemore Togarasei (ed.), Aspects of Pentecostal Christianity in Zimbabwe (New York, NY: Springer, 2018), Nova Religio 23, no. 4
- Review of Ebenezer Obadare, Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria (London, UK: Zed Books, 2018), Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 41, nos. 3-4
- Review of Charlotte Walker-Said, Faith, Power and Family: Christianity and Social Change in French Cameroon (Woodbridge, UK: James Currey, 2018), International Journal of African Historical Studies 52, no. 3
- Review of Douglas Thomas and Temilola Alanamu (eds.), African Religions: Beliefs and Practices Through History (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2019), Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 56, no. 11
- Review of Devaka Premawardhana, Faith in Flux: Pentecostalism and Mobility in Rural Mozambique (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), African Studies Quarterly 18, no. 3 (May 2019): 91-93.
- Review of Steven Pierce, Moral Economies of Corruption: State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies 41, no. 1 (2018): 179-182
- Review of Andreana C. Prichard, Sisters in Spirit: Christianity, Affect, and Community Building in East Africa, 1860-1970 (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2017), H-Empire, H-Net Reviews (December 2018)
- Review of Jason Bruner, Living Salvation in the East African Revival in Uganda (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2017), H-Empire, H-Net Reviews (February 2018)
- Review of J.D.Y. Peel, Christianity, Islam and Orisa Religion (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015), International Journal of African Historical Studies 50, no. 2 (2017): 358-360
- Review of Samuel Irving Britt, The Children of Salvation: Ritual Struggle in a Liberian Aladura Church (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2012), Journal of Religion in Africa 46, nos. 2-3 (2016): 327-329
- Review of Benedetta Rossi, From Slavery to Aid: Politics, Labour, and Ecology in the Nigerien Sahel, 1800-2000 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015), African Studies Quarterly 16, no. 2 (March 2016): 134-136
- Review of Shobana Shankar, Who Shall Enter Paradise? Christian Origins in Muslim Northern Nigeria, ca. 1890-1975 (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2014), African Studies Quarterly 15, no. 3 (June 2015): 87-88
Memberships
Nigerian Studies Association
African Studies Association
Lagos Studies Association
West African Research Association
Mormon History Association
American Historical Association
