Bradley Craig has joined the Boston University faculty as an assistant professor of history. Prior to his new appointment, he served as an assistant professor of history at Concordia University in Quebec and as a Bora Postdoctoral Fellow for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His scholarship focuses on early African American and Black Atlantic politics and culture, specifically the felt and embodied dimensions of diasporic belonging.
Dr. Craig is a three-time graduate of Harvard University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in studies of women, gender and sexuality, a master’s degree in history, and Ph.D. in African and African American studies.
Brooke Durham has joined the Boston University faculty as an assistant professor of history. Earlier in her career, she taught at West Virginia University. She is a historian of France and the French Empire, whose research focus on the end of the French Empire through local, interpersonal interactions in France and Africa after 1945. In her work, she examines how students, social workers, teachers, and international volunteers negotiated the politics of the Cold War, development, and decolonization.
Dr. Durham is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University, where she earned dual-bachelor’s degrees in history and international politics. She holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. in history from Stanford University in California.
Pamela Zabala Ortiz has joined the Boston University faculty as an assistant professor of sociology. As a sociologist, her work centers around race and ethnicity with a focus on race and racism in transnational contexts. She examines transnational constructions of Blackness and the ways in which Afro-Latinxs navigate competing definitions of Black identity in the United States.
Dr. Zabala Ortiz is a graduate of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where she double-majored in sociology and Africana studies. She holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. in sociology from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
