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I received my PhD in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies from Stellenbosch University in 2018 and my MA in Biblical Studies from Trinity Western University in 2015.
My main research investigates ethnic identity and representation in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East. Of particular interest to me is the history and identity of the ancient Kushites/Nubians of North Africa.
I am also interested in the history of the Bible and its role in western identity formation, colonization, and slavery. Prior to joining Laurier, I was Associate Professor at Burman University in central Alberta.
- “Kushites in the Hebrew Bible: Theological and Historical Perspectives.” New Perspectives on Ancient Nubia. Editors, Solange Ashby and Aaron Brody. Gorgias Press (forthcoming 2022).
- "Slavery, the Hebrew Bible and the Development of Racial Theories in the Nineteenth Century" Religions 12, no. 9 (2021): 742
- “Nineteenth Century Preadamism and Alexander Winchell’s Racial Ideology.” Academia Letters, Article 3400 (2021).
- “Representing Cushites in the Hebrew Bible.” Biblical Archaeology Review 46:5 (2020): 62-64.
- Cushites in the Hebrew Bible: Negotiating Ethnic Identity in the Past and Present. Leiden: Brill, 2020.
- “‘How the West Was Won’: Christian Expansion before and after the Protestant Reformation,” Andrews University Seminary Studies, 56 (2018): 115-140.
- Madaba Plains Project (MPP), Tell Al-Umayri, Jordan. July to August 2012 (six weeks)
- Balu’a Regional Archaeological Project (BRAP), Tell Balu’a, Jordan. June to July, 2019 (four weeks)
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