Resume

• 2006

  MA

  PhD

  African History

  LDS Institute of Religion (President)

  University of Virginia

• 2000

  Bachelor of Arts

  I double majored in History and African studies

  with a minor in Music and two years experience as a writing fellow (tutor) and research assistant

  History

  Phi Alpha Theta

  Brigham Young University

• Writing

  Qualitative Research

  History

  Leadership

  Program Management

  Analysis

  Higher Education

  PowerPoint

  Microsoft Excel

  Grant Writing

  Teaching

  International Relations

  Editing

  Microsoft Office

  Research

  University Teaching

  Microsoft Word

  On the Margins: A Historiography of Modernity in Southern Arabia

  Review of how historians applied the term \"modernity\" to Southern Arabia over the past four decades.

  On the Margins: A Historiography of Modernity in Southern Arabia

  Celebrating Swahili New Year: A Performative Critique of Textual Islam in Coastal Kenya

  From Constituting Communities to Dividing Districts: The Formalization of a Cultural Border between Mombasa and its Hinterland

  Joshua Gedacht

  Special Issue: Muslim Modernities: Interdisciplinary Insights

  Daren

  Ray

  Joseph Smith Papers Project

  Brigham Young University

  Connecticut College

  University of Virginia

  American University in Cairo

  Summer Enrichment Program

  Auburn University

  Roanoke College

  Provo

  Utah

  Tutor students in writing

  prepare in-service training

  supervise junior writing fellows

  coordinate with faculty clients

  Writing Fellow (Tutor)

  Brigham Young University

  University of Virginia

  Instructor

  Instructor in Early African History (to 1850)

  Roanoke College

  University of Virginia

  Charlottesville

  Virginia

  Prepare materials for new Middle East History course.

  Research Assistant

  Taught Courses in African History

  Visiting Assistant Professor

  New London/Norwich

  Connecticut Area

  Connecticut College

  New Cairo

  Egypt

  Assistant Professor of African History

  teaching courses in African

  World

  and Islamic History

  Visiting Assistant Professor

  American University in Cairo

  Introduction to linguistics course for gifted high school students

  Instructor

  Charlottesville

  Virginia Area

  Summer Enrichment Program

  Teach World History and African History Courses

  Assistant Professor

  Auburn

  Alabama Area

  Auburn University

  Provo

  UT

  Prepare references

  charts

  and transcripts for a major historical documentary editing publication.

  Research Assistant

  Joseph Smith Papers Project

  Golden Key International Honour Society

  African Studies Association

  American Historical Association

  Arabic (intermediate)

  Swahili

  Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship

  Funding for research travel to Kenya and Tanzania

  plus participation in two interdisciplinary workshops with senior scholars in the field of Muslim Modernities.

  Social Science Research Council

  Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship

  US Department of Education

  Gordon B. Hinckley Presidential Scholarship

  Top four-year scholarship awarded to incoming freshman at BYU.

  Brigham Young University

  Outstanding History Student

  BYU History Department