Past Projects
Themes
The intimate and personal as political
Gender
Colonialism and Race
Embodiment
Visual Culture
Social Power
From Ruffles to Rifles: The Multifaceted Modern Woman as Imagined by British Settlers in Interwar Colonial Kenya
MA Thesis, 2013
My research has a longstanding emphasis on ways personal life and identities interact with societal power structures.
My MA Thesis research centered ideologies of womanhood in colonial Kenya. Specifically, I used memoirs, novels, newspapers, fashion spreads, and household guides to examine the discourses of femininity among British women living in interwar Kenya.