Advancing excellence through faculty diversity

Christian Alvarado

Education:

B.S., Economics, University of Nevada, Reno; M.A., History, San Diego State University; Ph.D., History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz

Dissertation:

“The Storm in Kenya”: Mau Mau in Systems of Thought

Thesis Advisor:

Eric Porter, Professor of History of Consciousness and History, University of California, Santa Cruz

Research Topic:

Transnational understandings of African decolonization, with an emphasis on issues of historical consciousness and global political economy

Mentor:

Bettina Ng’weno, Professor of African American and African Studies, University of California, Davis

Current Position:

President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of African American and African Studies, University of California, Davis

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