Doctoral Student in Anthropology & History
About
My research focuses on the mass enrollment in formal schools in Liberia in the early to mid-2000s. I intend to study how students, particularly those entering high school and college after the war, understood and sought a subjective transformation through formal schooling. I am also interested in the longer term history of access to higher education in West Africa, and in particular the 1970s, when Liberian universities were first-opened to indigenous attendance and enrollments grew sharply.
Fields of study:
- Education and rebellion
- Liberia and the United States
- Formal schooling and the social body
- Anthropology of education
