Upcoming

• April 2026: (Mexico City, Mexico): “The Real Market Makers: Vernacular Placemaking Practice and Market Modernization in Cape Coast, Ghana.” Society for Architectural Historians 79th International Conference.

• June 2026: (Reykjavik, Iceland): “The Practice(s) of Everyday Life after AI Comes to Town” with Stephen Marr. Nordic Geographers Meeting.

• July 2026: (Kumasi, Ghana): “Urban Order in Uncertain Times: Regulating Pragya in Cape Coast, Ghana”. Ghana Studies Association Triennial Conference.

• December 2026: (New Orleans, LA) “Tech Bro Urbanism in Africa: 7 Questions for an Emergent Research Agenda,” African Studies Association Annual Conference.

2026

• “Beyond Bottom-Up: Urban Identity and the Uneven Geography of Digital Urbanisms and Infrastructure in Ghana”, Digital Infrastructural Urbanism: Asia-Africa Encounters and Beyond Series. (Virtual).

2025

• “AI & African Cities: Building a Human-Centered Research Agenda.” African Studies Association Annual Meeting (Atlanta, GA).

• “Critical Inquiry in an Age of Instant Answers.” AI & the Liberal Arts Symposium. (Connecticut College, New London, CT).

• “Making the Market: Vernacular Placemaking Practice and Alternative Urban Redevelopment Models”. European Conference of African Studies (Prague, Czechia).

• ‘Skirt and Blouse’ Politics: Urban Development and Resistance in Cape Coast, Ghana”. International Conference on Urban Affairs (Vancouver, Canada).

  Past

  2024-2021

• “The Socio-Spatial Reality of ‘Skirt and Blouse’ Politics in Cape Coast, Ghana.” African Studies Association (Chicago, IL).

• “Beauties or Beasts?: Comparing “White Elephants” in Cape Coast & New Orleans.” African Studies Association (Virtual- Washington D.C.).

• “Gender, Food, and Spatial Agency in Urban Ghana.” Gender & History Journal Symposium (Virtual- Vancouver, Canada).

  2020

• “Life at the Cusp: Imagining Futures from Rural to Urban Ghana.” Chaired Panel co-coordinated by myself, Emily Williamson, Sarah Monson, Emily Stratton, Netty Carey. African Studies Association (Virtual- Washington D.C.).

• “Nobody Asked!: An Ethnography of Urban Redevelopment in Cape Coast’s Kotokuraba Market,” African Studies Research Forum (Cape Coast, Ghana).

  2019

• “Conceptualizing the Market Walls: A Roadmap for Exploring Market Redevelopment in Cape Coast”, Ghana Studies Association (Accra, Ghana).

  2017

• “Layers of Engaged Learning: Graduate Students Teachers and Service-Learning Requirements at Tulane,” International Association for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement (Dublin, Ireland).

• “Queens in the Market: Gender, Food, and Public Space in Urban Ghana”, Boston University African Studies Graduate Symposium (Boston, MA).