She holds an M.A. in African Area Studies and a Ph.D. in African History from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). She specializes in African History, African-American Women’s History, Women’s and Gender studies, and oral history. She has contributed scholarly articles and book chapters on African history and culture, historical methods, African feminism, and economic development, and is presently is working on two book projects, “Unruly Mothers, Combative Wives: Rituals, Women and Change in the Cameroon Grassfields c. 1889-1960,” a study of British and German colonialism in West Cameroon in the late19th and early 20th Centuries; and Herstory: The Life and Times of “Madame Maternity,” an extraordinary woman, political figure and health worker.