Bio:

I am a scholar of African Studies, post-colonial urbanism and post-conflict transition, based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Here I am Assistant Professor in the Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies and jointly appointed in the Department of City and Regional Planning. My research focuses on cities in East and Central Africa and extends to other post-conflict contexts and their diasporic mappings. 

At UNC, I teach on global development, urbanism in the Global South, and comparative urbanism in cities in North America and in the African Diaspora.

I hold a PhD. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. I also hold Masters degrees in social anthropology and public health from the University of Oxford and LSHTM, and a Bachelors degree from Harvard University.

My research and scholarship have been supported by the Wenner Gren Foundation, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC, the Institute of International Studies and the Center for African Studies at UC Berkeley, and the Rhodes Trust.