Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant, Co-Investigator(1 of 3) – “China in Tanzania, Tanzania in China: Beyond High Politics”
Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Standard Research Grant, Sole Principal Investigator – “Black Diasporic Politics and Style in 1960s and 1970s Tanzania: A Transnational History”
Fonds Québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC), Nouveaux chercheurs Fellowship, Sole Principal Investigator – “Gender, Public Space and the Politics of Urban Identity in Postwar Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1945-1980”
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award – “Urban Popular Culture, the Tanzanian State and the Politics of ‘National Culture”
SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship – “Urban Popular Culture, the Tanzanian State and the Politics of ‘National Culture”
Books
Cultured States: Youth, Gender and Modern Style in 1960s Dar es Salaam. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.
• Winner of the 2012 Bethwell A. Ogot Prize, awarded by the African Studies Association for the best book in Eastern African Studies.
• Finalist for the 2012 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, awarded by the Canadian Historical Association for the best book in non-Canadian history.
AHR Review of Cultured States: https://www.academia.edu/15103329/AHR_Review_of_Cultured_States_
Articles and Book Chapters
"Cold War or Class War?: 'Eating Money,' FRELIMO, and the Moral Economy of African Political Exile." Cold War History (special issue on "Shades of Red: Chinese and Soviet Engagement in Africa during the Cold War"), Forthcoming 2024.
"Two African Historiographies in a Decolonising Moment: Dependency Theory, the 'Dar School,' and Institutional Politics at the University of Dar es Salaam." Itinerario (special issue on "Becoming Independent: Institutions and Epistemologies of Knowledge Production in the Age of Decolonisation"). Forthcoming, 2024.
“Learning from Dar es Salaam: Harvard’s ‘Project Tanganyika’ and a Nodal Perspective on Decolonization’s Itineraries.” Humanity (special issue on “Decolonization and Global History") 14.1 (2023): 102-20.
"Romancing the Frontline: A View from Dar es Salaam on Intimacy and Political Attachment." The Global Sixties (special issue on "The Global Sixties in the Global South") 15.1-2 (2023), pp. 1-19.
"Leveraging Alternatives: Early FRELIMO, the Soviet Union, and the Infrastructure of African Political Exile.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (special issue on “An African-Soviet Modern”) 41.1 (2021), 11-26.
“Tensions of an Oeuvre: Historical Materialism and Cultural History in the Work of Frederick Cooper.” History in Africa 46 (2019), 1-10.
“Liberation in Transit: Eduardo Mondlane and Che Guevara in Dar es Salaam.” The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties: Between Protest and Nation Building, ed. Chen Jian, Martin Klimke, Masha Kirasirova, Mary Nolan, Marilyn Young, and Joanna Waley-Cohen. London: Routledge, 2017.
“Movement Youth in a Global Sixties Hub: The Everyday Lives of Transnational Activists in Postcolonial Dar es Salaam.” In A Global Age: Transnational Histories of Youth in the Twentieth Century, eds. Richard Ivan Jobs and David M. Pomfret. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series (series editor: Akira Iriye), 2015. pp. 188-201.
“Consuming ‘Soul’ in 1960s Tanzania.” In New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness, ed. Karen Dubinsky et. al. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2009.
“In the‘Age of Minis’: Women, Work and Masculinity Downtown.” In Dar es Salaam: Histories from an Emerging African Metropolis, ed. James R. Brennan, Andrew Burton, and Yusuf Lawi. Dar es Salaam and Nairobi: Mkuki na Nyota and the British Institute in Eastern Africa, 2007.
“Contesting Postcolonial National Culture: The Short Life of a Tanzanian Ban on ‘Soul.’” Moving Worlds 5.1 (2005): 120-32.
“Of Students, ‘’Nizers,’ and a Struggle over Youth: Tanzania’s 1966 National Service Crisis.” Africa Today 51.3 (2005): 83-107.
“’Anti-Mini Militants Meet Modern Misses’: Urban Style, Gender, and the Politics of ‘National Culture’ in 1960s Dar es Salaam,Tanzania,” in Fashioning Africa: Power and the Politics of Dress, ed. Jean Allman (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004). [revised and reprinted version of the Gender and History article.]
“’Anti-Mini Militants Meet Modern Misses’: Urban Style, Gender, and the Politics of ‘National Culture’ in 1960s Dar es Salaam,Tanzania.” Gender and History 14.3 (November 2002): 584-607.
