At the undergraduate level, I teach surveys and seminars on African history for all time periods, race and the environment, humanitarianism and development, and New York as an African City.

In 2022, I received the NYU College of Arts and Sciences Golden Dozen Teaching Award.  I am committed to the practice of community-based pedagogy. My courses are designed to introduce students to the unique archives, museums, and public-facing history projects based in New York City. Through my teaching, I have worked with the Black Gotham Experience, the Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the African Burial Ground.  Beyond NYU, I have organized pedagogical exchanges on the teaching of early African history.

At the graduate level, I teach seminars on African history, environmental history, and the history of science and technology.

NYU is a premier institution for doctoral study of the history of Africa, the African Diaspora, and the history of science, technology, and the environment.  I advise and serve on the committees of doctoral students working on projects across the African continent on a range of topics as well as students who work in Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America on projects that engage the history of science, the environment, the French empire, and/or oral history and ethnographic methodologies.

In AY 2022-2023, I am the NYU History Department Placement Officer for graduate students who are on the job and fellowship market. If you would like to be added to the email list for placement workshops, please contact Gabriella Sokol (gs2944 [at] nyu.edu).