Oakes Faculty Fellows
The Oakes College faculty represents a wealth of expertise from the natural sciences to the humanities, and we are proud to have some of the top scholars in the world among our faculty. Our students major in nearly every discipline at UCSC—from economics and computer science, to theater arts and Latin American and Latino studies—and they are well supported by the depth and breadth of the Oakes College faculty and the extensive knowledge of our advising team.
TBA is Oakes's faculty chair!
The Chair of the Faculty is an Academic Senate member, other than the Provost, who is elected by the college Faculty to serve a two year term, and will serve as a member of the Executive Committee.
- Title
- Professor
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- History Department
- Affiliations Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas, Institute for Social Transformation, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- Phone
- Office Location
- Stevenson College Academic Building, 214 Stevenson Academic
- Office Hours Spring 2024: Thursday at 11:00AM-12:00PM in person, Monday at 3:00-4:00PM via Zoom, or by appointment
- Mail Stop Stevenson Academic Services
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, European Studies, Africa and African Studies, African Diaspora, Colonialism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Urban studies
- Courses HIS 2B - The World Since 1500, HIS 181 - Modern Britain and the British Empire, HIS 181A / ANTH110O - Postcolonial Britain and France, HIS 181B - Africa and Britain in an Imperial World, HIS 196H - Sex and the City: History of Sexuality in Urban Areas around the Globe, HIS 200 - Methods and Theories of History (Graduate Course), HIS 202 - Practicing World History (Graduate Course), HIS 203 - Global Decolonization (Graduate Course), HIS 251B - Readings in Modern European History: Empire (Graduate Course)
Research Interests
Black British History; Modern Britain and the British Empire; Black European Studies; Modern European cultural, social, and intellectual history; Black Atlantic; women's and gender history; history of sexuality; and world history
Biography, Education and Training
B.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
M.A., University of Colorado, Boulder
Ph.D., Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Selected Publications
- The Global 1930s: The International Decade. Co-authored with Susan Kingsley Kent. London: Routledge, 2017.
- Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the 20th Century. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015.
- The Women's War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria. Co-authored with Misty L. Bastian and Susan Kingsley Kent. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
