I have broad teaching experience in African, Atlantic, and World History as well as interdisciplinary Africana studies. In all of these classes I try to expose students to Afrocentric knowledge and perspectives that will help them fill their brains so that they can formulate their own opinions and convictions from these influences.

Over the past six years, I have cultivated a teaching philosophy and course materials that enhance diversity and inclusion in the classroom. My pedagogy focuses on decolonizing historic narratives in ways that privilege Afrocentric perspectives and other views from the Global South, calling into question the universality of Western epistemologies.

At Ball State, I regularly teach:    

Comparative Slavery 

Africa since 1500

African American Studies Theory and Research Methods

Studies in Non-Western Civilizations

The West in the World

I also teach various topics in African history, which in the past have included:

Cultural Histories of West Africa and the Atlantic World

Gender and Sexuality in African History      

Africans and Human Rights in Modern History