Hello! I am a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and historian of modern Africa and race, gender, and sexuality during the Second World War. As an army veteran, I am particularly interested in the role soldiers play in structures of power, as cultural agents, and their (re)construction of these.

First Class of the Liberian Frontier Force U.S. Army-led Officer’s Training School at Rifle Instruction. Barclay Training Center, Monrovia, Liberia, 1942.
Photo courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.