Thomas Bouril

Education

• Ph.D, African History, Syracuse University 2023
• M.A., Global History, Marquette University 2016
• B.A., History, Northern Illinois University, 2014
• A.A., Rock Valley College, 2012

Teaching and Research Interests

• Modern African History
• Global History
• The history of children and childhood

Courses Taught

• HST 197 World History to 1500
• HST 198 World History since 1500
• HST 296 World History since 1945

Work in Progress

I am currently working on two research projects. I am in the process of extending my dissertation research into a monograph. This project examines the social, political, and cultural impacts of competing conceptions of childhood in colonial Kenya, and surveys how Kenya became a social laboratory for changing twentieth century attitudes about childhood, race, and gender.

My second research project examines the violence against the Nandi community in the first decades of colonial rule in Western Kenya, and the legacies of that violence on Nandi society and the political economy of Kenya’s Rift Valley.