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Map highlighting historical figures and locations around the world known for their contributions to history, culture, and politics. Color-coded markers indicate different categories of figures across continents.
  • A black and white photo of a woman wearing a beret and a shawl, superimposed over a blue-tinted background of a building and trees.

    Siti Binti Saad (c. 1880–1950)

    her story
  • A black and white portrait of a smiling woman with short, styled hair, overlaid on a sepia-toned background of an urban building with graffiti.

    Laudelina de Campos Melo (1904–1991)

    coming soon...
  • A digitally edited black and white portrait of a man wearing traditional jewelry and accessories, with a large tree, staircase, and a few people in the background, all tinted in green tones.

    Mekatilili Wa Menza (c. 1840–1914)

    coming soon...
  • A black and white drawing of a woman with a large, curly hairstyle, standing in front of a building under construction.

    Fanny Balbuk (1840–1907)

    coming soon...
  • Black and white vintage portrait of a woman wearing a headscarf and jewelry against a vibrant pink background with stylized trees and people.

    Cécile Fatiman (1771–1883)

    coming soon...

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View fullsize https://youtu.be/dpKJmYzVrk4 Here is a short story I produced as an extension of my Fulbright-Hays project with the SIT: Siti Binti Saad, Mselem House, and the voice of a new anticolonial taarab tradition.
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View fullsize Excited to have to the opportunity to present “Comtean #Positivism, #womanism, and #decolonial #feminism: case studies from the global south” at this international colloquium on positivism and its critics in Latin America and Europe: trut
View fullsize Join me on Nov 12 for a presentation on my digital humanities project and architecture elective ARCH 4/598 ‘critical theories of place studies’. I will share the story of the anti-colonialist womanist philosopher Siti Binti Saad (c. 1880-
View fullsize The Routledge Companion to Race and Architecture.

Out on Halloween! 

This comprehensive study contains the chapter “MEMORIALIZING BLACK LIFE AND DEATH: Contemplative Inquiry in Interdisciplinary Studies” by Dr John Anderson, Matthew Wil
View fullsize critical theories of place studies is a graduate workshop offering learners the opportunity to explore a unique multidisciplinary and multimedia methodology for place-based counter-storytelling. In this elective, learners will collect evidence from a
View fullsize I am thrilled to be visiting the University of Brighton this fall to speak on my critical theories of place studies project at the “Everyday resistance: Thinking, making, and living in the material world” conference, co-organised by the C
View fullsize “Indiana was home to some of America’s most radical progressive voices in the early 19th century-and some of them were women. Frances Wright, writer, speaker, and activist, came to New Harmony out of curiosity and left changed, beginning
View fullsize Looking for an amazing learning opportunity abroad? Please look at the SIT’s undergraduate semester study abroad in Zanzibar and Master’s program on Climate Change and Global Sustainability.

I cannot recommend the SIT faculty and staff e
View fullsize Zanaki house architecture and culture 
Zanaki is an ethnic group of Bantu speakers living in the Mara region around the Eastern side of Lake Nyanza. 

The Zanaki consider house construction a collective feast of crafting and making that accompanies e
View fullsize Wildlife at the world’s largest caldera, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
View fullsize Wildlife around Lake Duluti, Arusha, Tanzania
View fullsize Fulbright artifact 3 #wip . African perspectives of climate change . On the majii ecologies of Kilimanjaro #SIT
View fullsize Cooking and Kiswahili lessons with Schwena and BiMoza, and ecology lessons with Mbaruk! Pemba Island, Tanzania.
View fullsize Out now! The The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century shows how and why women actually practiced philosophy. I am delighted to have contributed one of the 49 entries.
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View fullsize Pilgrimage to the office of the prolific radical historian Walter Rodney
View fullsize Collaborating with Tanzanian taarab legends Mariam Hamdani, Mohamed Othman Faki and others from Dhow Countries Music Academy to transform my poem “Mkona Mmoja” into a song in the tradition of Siti Binti Saad.
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View fullsize Pemba Island, Tanzania
View fullsize Chumbe Island, Zanzibar

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