Area of Interest:

History and Memory, Restorative Justice, Colonialism, Post-colonialism, Anthropology of Knowledge, Human Rights, Namibia

Education:

1999 – present  University of North Carolina  Chapel Hill, NC

Master of Arts in Anthropology, May 2002

Pursuing Ph.D. in Anthropology, expected May 2009

1994 – 1998  University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources & Environment Ann Arbor, MI

Bachelor of Science in Environmental Policy & Behavior, April 1998

Research & Activities:

My dissertation project broadly examines the (re)production and meanings of the German colonial past for Namibian Ovaherero.  My research was conducted within the context of 2004 commemorations in Namibia about the Herero Genocide/German-Herero war of 1904 as well as the on-going efforts by some Namibian Ovaherero to seek restorative justice with the German government.  I am particularly interested in how Human Rights, as institutions and vocabularies, intersects with Herero and national memories/histories about the German colonial past.