MIRS-African Studies Student
About
James has worked as a pipe layer and farmhand in Wisconsin (where he is from), at the airport in Atlanta, as a barista in Boston, and has been unemployed in Manila, Salé, Cochabamba, and many other places. His previous academic work deals with the status of Swahili alongside English in post-independence East African nations. His next project has to do with the urban form of Indian Ocean ports, their bearing on national and global economies, and what their transformation means in a world faced with climate crisis and an uncertain economic future. In his free time, James enjoys walking (through nature or cityscape), traveling when possible, and reading widely when not.
