S2E1 Michelle Moyd - Indiana University, Bloomington

Michelle Moyd is the Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor of History and the Associate Director of the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is a specialist in the history of Eastern Africa and she wears a lot of hats at IU. Michelle received her undergraduate degree at Princeton University, her MA at the University of Florida, and a second MA and a PhD at Cornell University. Before pursuing her PhD, Michelle spent 8 years in the Air Force as an intel officer, serving in Germany and Somalia.

She is the author of Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East and she is the co-editor, with Yuliya Komska and David Gramling, of Linguistic Disobedience: Restoring Power to Civic Language. Michelle has also authored more than a dozen articles and essays, including contributions to First World War Studies, Radical History Review, and some excellent edited volumes: Santanu Das’ Race, Empire, and First World War Experience and Tammy Proctor and Susan Grayzel’s Gender and the Great War. Her latest book, Africa, Africans, and the First World War, is currently under contract with Cambridge University Press.

Michelle’s work has been supported by the Fulbright Program, the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, and the International Research Center Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History, Humboldt University, Berlin, and the Institute for Historical Studies at UT Austin. Michelle has her finger on the pulse of what’s going on in the profession beyond the military history field and she is on the editorial boards of the Journal of African Military History, the Journal of Military History, First World War Studies, Central European History, and the British Journal of Military History, and Ohio University’s African Military Histories series. She contributed to an essay forum on the impact of COVID-19 on scholars of European History edited by Christian Goeschel, Dominique Reill, and Lucy Riall in the journal Central European History (Vol. 54, Issue 4, December 2021), that discussed among many things her COVID lockdown Facebook diary. Her public service ranges from giving public lectures to fighting to keep Nazis out of Bloomington’s Farmers’ Market. Michelle has presented her work all over the world, and we are most appreciative that she will be adding our little podcast to her amazing list of media appearances! 

Rec. 03/18/2022