Department of History

Roots: African Dimensions of the History and Cultures of the Americas, Graduate Seminar
West Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade
Writing Seminar for History Majors
Spiritual Crossings in the Atlantic World, Graduate Seminar

"The Shrine of Nananom Mpow and Fante Unity in the 18th Century," International Journal of African Historical Studies, forthcoming
"Abolition of the Slave Trade: Repercussions in Africa," Islas: Official Publication of the Afro-Cuban Alliance, 2, no. 8 (2007): 35-38
"Selected Contributions to Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage (Toyin Falola and Amanda Warnock, eds.) Greenwood Milestones in African American History. Greenwood Press, 2007.
Review of Turner, Jack. Spice: The History of a Temptation. New York: Knopf, 2004, for Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction, XXIX.3 (2005): 140-42.

NEH Summer Seminar Grant, "Roots: African Dimensions of the History and Cultures of the Americas (Through the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade)," Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2009
New Course Development Grant, African Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh, 2008
Third Term Research Stipend, Faculty Grants Committee, University of Pittsburgh, 2007
African Studies Program Faculty Mini-Grant, University of Pittsburgh, 2006
Faculty Research Grant, College of Graduate Studies & Research, Minnesota State University, 2006
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant, Ghana, 2000-2001