Fields of Expertise:
Sub-Saharan African history; East African history; history of colonial and tropical medicine
Recent publications:
The Riddle of Malnutrition: The Long Arc of Biomedical and Public Health Interventions in Uganda
“Blood Work and Rumors of Blood: Nutritional Research and Insurrection in Buganda, 1938-1952,” International Journal of African Historical Studies special edition on “Incorporating Medical Research into the History of Medicine in East Africa” 47:3 (2014): 473-494.
“The True Fiasco: The Treatment and Prevention of Severe Acute Malnutrition in Uganda, 1950-1974,” in Global Health in Africa: Historical Perspectives on Culture, Epidemiology, and Disease Control, Tamara Giles-Vernick and James L.A. Webb, Jr., eds. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013), 92-113.
Courses taught:
- HST 300, Historical Imagination
- BST/INTL 211A & UNST 233A, Introduction to African Studies/Global Perspectives
- HST 312U, Africa to 1800
- HST 313U, Africa since 1800
- HST 412/512, Topics in African History and Culture: Health and Healing in Sub-Saharan Africa
- HST 412/512, Topics in African History and Culture: Women and Gender in Sub-Saharan Africa