I am a computational social scientist and a writer who is interested in how social movements and ideas move across global contexts. As a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Chicago, I am completing my dissertation on the people and ideas of the Pan-Africanist congresses of 1919, 1945, and 1974. Drawing on network science, computational text analysis, and historical methods, my work traces how anti-imperial thinkers built and sustained transnational movements across the twentieth century.

My research sits at the intersection of historical sociology, intellectual history, and computational social science, with substantive interests in Pan-Africanism, postcolonial theory, and the politics of knowledge production.

A second line of work examines global media hierarchies and how corruption is narrated across national contexts. I wrote a paper “What we talk about when we talk about corruption” which uses 190 Wikipedia pages to examine and compare the uses of corruption discourse in different contexts.

I hold an MFA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Botswana. I am an Editorial Assistant at the American Journal of Sociology and an affiliate of the Knowledge Lab at UChicago. My work has been supported by the University of Chicago's RDI Prize Lectureship, the Social Sciences Research Center Graduate Student Fellowship, and the Nicholson Center for British Studies, among others.