Professor Tague received her BA from the George Washington University, during which she studied abroad in Zimbabwe with the School for International Training (SIT). She then served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in South Africa and went on to complete her MA at Ohio University, and her PhD at the University of California, Davis. Her research explores the relationship between refugee settlement, international humanitarianism, rural development, and decolonization in East Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. Her work has been supported by Fulbright-Hays, the American Historical Association (AHA), the Mellon Foundation, the Kluge Center, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.