My teaching covers undergraduate and graduate courses on modern European, African, and world history from around 1800, plus classes in methodology and theory. I also supervise dissertations in modern African and colonial history. Here’s a selection of papers I’ve taught:
University of Oxford
Convener:
- Graduate Conference in European History (GRACEH), Oxford consortium (with Katherine Lebow)
- Northeast Africa Forum (with Jason Mosley, Mwangi Mwaura and Biruk Terrefe)
- Graduate Workshop in Modern European History (with Nicholas Stargardt)
Courses:
- Transformations and Transitions in African History since c. 1800
- The Rise and Crisis of European Socialisms, 1881–1921
- European and World History: Society, Nation and Empire, 1815–1914
- European and World History: The Global Twentieth Century, 1930–2003
- European and World History: Europe Divided, 1914–1989
- Approaches to History (Anthropology, Sociology, Gender, Race, Environment)
- Disciplines of History (with Matthew Kempshall, Tehila Sasson, Cecilia Tarruell, Robert Yee)
University of Bremen
- Inequalities in Global History (with Cornelius Torp)
- Research as a Process (methodology course)
- History of the Maasai in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- Cities of Tomorrow: The Global History of Urban Planning
- Around the World in 12 Cities: An Introduction to Global Urban History
- Afterlives of Empire: Debating Europe and the Colonial Past
Freie Universität Berlin
- History of Kenya: Societies in Transition
- Health and Disease in Modern History
- Theory in Historiographical Practice (with Alexander C. T. Geppert)
- 1900 and 2000: A Comparison
- Weimar Culture
