He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Ramapo College of New Jersey in 2005. He received a Master of Arts in International Affairs in 2007 and a PhD in African history in 2011, both from Ohio University, where he also had intense training in Tigrinya and Arabic. Professor Venosa’s areas of specialization include nationalism in the Horn of Africa, Islam in modern African history, and the history of African diaspora communities across the Middle East and the Indian Ocean world. With his primary research interest being the country of Eritrea, he has published articles focusing on early Eritrean nationalism in journals such as Northeast African Studies, Islamic Africa, The Journal of Eastern African Studies, and TheInternational Journal of African Historical Studies.