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Doctoral Candidate in History

• Fields of Study

  • Africa
  • Colonial Belgium
  • The Congo

• About

  Pedro has conducted extensive archival, ethnographic, and oral history research in Central Africa and Europe. He is currently writing his dissertation titled Decolonizing the University: A history of the Congolese student movement in the global Sixties.

  Publications:

  (Forthcoming) "June 4th 1969: Violence, Political Imagination and the Student Movement in Kinshasa." In Samantha Christiansen and Zachary Scarlett (Eds.), The Third World in the Global Sixties. New York: Berghahn Books.

  "Une histoire postcoloniale de l'Afrique." Revue Nouvelle, 7-8, 65-77, 2010.

  "La crise congolaise de juillet 1960 et le sexe de la décolonisation."  Sextant, 25, 55-72, 2008.

• Education

  • BA, History, Universite de Liege, 2002
  • MA, History, Universite de Louvain, 2004

• Awards

  • NAEd Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
  • Bourse de la Fondation Belge de la Vocation
  • International Disseration Fellowship Award (SSRC)
  • Rackham International Dissertation Award (UofM)
  • Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources (CLIR)
  • Center for European Studies Summer Grant (UofM)
  • African Initiative Grant (UofM)
  • International Institute Individual Fellowship (UofM)