Selected Presentations & Appearances
Asiatic Articles and the Global Lives of Asian Sailors, Keynote Address
· April 14, 2011
Lecture
Southampton University, Southampton, UK
Motley Crews, Constricted Mobility: Mapping ‘Flexible Highways’ and ‘Tubes of Controlled Passages’
· March 13, 2009
Lecture
Intercolonial Networks, Oceanic Circulations: Re-Thinking the Indian Ocean,” University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
Tracing Merchant Mariners on British Vessels through Primary Documents,
· December 2, 2008
Lecture
presented to the Department of History and Maritime History Group, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland
‘More Completely the Servants of the Shipowner': The Men of the Northwestern Indian Ocean in the Age of Steam, c. 1840-1900.
· December 2, 2008
Lecture
Duke-Durham Exchange, University of Durham
’No Objection to a Wandering Unsettled Life:’ Bondsmen & Freedmen in the Indian Ocean World, c. 1600-1900
· December 1, 2008
Lecture
Slavery and the Slave Trades in the Indian Ocean and Arab Worlds, Tenth Annual Conference, Gilder-Lehrman Center, Yale University
The Back Story of the Voyage of the SS Parramatta, 17 June-10 September, 1886
· December 1, 2008
Lecture
Story of the Voyage Colloquium, Witwatersrand Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Service to the Profession
Tenure Review, Georgia State University
·
August 2013
Other
Manuscript Review, Cambridge University Press
·
June 2013
Other
External Evaluator, PhD Dissertation Committee, Department of History, McGill University
·
December 9, 2012
Other
Manuscript review for Cambridge University Press
·
December 9, 2012
Other
Tenure review, Department of History, Tulane University
·
December 9, 2012
Other
Article review for Journal of Global History
·
December 9, 2012
Other
Evaluator for fellowship application, American Academy in Berlin
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November 2008
Other