Historian and professor at Union College in upstate NY
Books: “Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa” (Indiana UP, 2021); “Islamization from below: The Making of Muslim Communities in Rural French Sudan” (Yale UP, 2011). 
My research areas: African Sahel (especially Burkina Faso, Mali & Senegal), 
French empire, Cold War in Africa, revolutions, biography, Islam, labor migration, environmental history. #histodons #Africa #Envhist #Islam #Sahel #Mali #BurkinaFaso