State University of New York @ Brockport
Faculty Member, History
University of Michigan, History
About
I am currently revising my dissertation, “Real Men / Savage Nature: British Big Game Hunting in Africa, 1880-1914,” for publication. Hunting was one of the central ways in which Britons interacted with Africans on the colonial frontier, yet the sport has not received the attention that evangelism and exploration have. This book examines the negotiated relationships British hunters had with African peoples, the impact of British women who hunted, and the ways in which hunters helped construct British understandings of and knowledge about Africa. The aim is to illuminate the role of hunters in the construction of colonial power and to better our understanding of how hunting, and especially the safari, shaped British and American perceptions of what Africa should be. This research draws together my broader interests in the histories of environmentalism, science, gender, and empire.
