Coffee will be served at 3:30pm. The event will start at 4:00pm.
Speaker
David (Dave) Glovsky, Assistant Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, is a historian of 19th and 20th century West Africa, with a focus on Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, and Guinea. His research and teaching interests include histories of mobility and migration, borderlands, spatial history, Islam, citizenship, pastoralism, gender, and histories of popular culture/sport. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on a variety of topics in African History and African Studies, with an eye to understanding the global dimensions and connections of African societies and peoples, both in the past and present. His research, teaching, and service is animated by a focus on social justice and equity, and in broadening historical perspectives to include oppressed and underrepresented communities. He welcomes inquiries from scholars, current graduate students, and potential graduate students interested in related questions/geographies or who simply want to connect, especially those wanting to learn more about how to apply to graduate school in the United States.
Before becoming an academic, Professor Glovsky worked in a variety of fields, including a stint doing live statistics for college football and basketball at ESPN, three years as a college hockey broadcaster and sports columnist, and in K-12 education. His interest in African History developed after spending two years in southern Senegal as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the town of Dabo. His experience living and working in Fulbe/Fulani communities throughout southern Senegal inspired him to return to academic life and explore the historical context of the area where he had lived. As a result, he believes that intellectual expertise comes from a variety of lived perspectives and experiences, not just from within the classroom.
About the International History Seminar
If you are interested in attending this semester’s events and joining the International History Seminar, please send an email confirming your interest to the Hayes Chair Graduate Research Associate, Ian Gammon, at hayeschairgra@osu.edu, and you will be included on the mailing list going forward. Materials will only be pre-circulated to people on the mailing list.
