Sana Saidykhan PhD
Chestnut Hill,MA
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, USA
08.2024 - Current
- Course taught: HIST 1077, Globalization 1.
- Course taught: HIST 1078, Globalization 2.
Instructor of Record
Ohio University
01.2022 - 01.2023
- Course taught: Hist 1330, Introduction to World History since 1750.
Adjunct Lecturer
University of The Gambia
01.2021 - 01.2022
- Course taught: HIST 413: Theory and Practice of History.
- Course taught: HIST 303: Sources of Historical Research.
Teaching Assistant
Ohio University
01.2018 - 01.2021
- Course taught: HIST 1220, Western Civilization: Modernity from 1500.
- Course taught: HIST 1210, Western Civilization to 1500.
- Course taught: HIST 1320, World History before 1750.
- Course taught: HIST 1330, World History since 1750.
- Course taught: HIST 3532, History of the Crusades.
Lecturer
University of The Gambia
01.2014 - 01.2016
- Course taught: HIST 103: Africa in Global History since 1800.
- Course taught: HIST 425: From the OAU to the AU.
- Course taught: HIST 315, Survey of World History.
Adjunct Lecturer
The Gambia College
01.2014 - 01.2016
- Module taught: Classroom Management (English Language and Literature).
- Module Taught: Student Teachers’ Field Experience Monitoring.
Graduate Assistant
University of The Gambia
09.2013 - 08.2014
- Support staff to the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, Professor Pierre Gomez.
- Research Assistant.
- Assist in lesson preparations and grading.
High School Teacher
Kinderdorf Bottrop Technical Senior Secondary School
07.2012 - 07.2013
- subject taught: English Language and Literature in English
High School Teacher
Charles Jow Memorial Academy
08.2011 - 08.2012
- Subject taught: English Language and Literature in English.
Middle School Teacher
Jappineh Basic Cycle School
12.2005 - 12.2007
- subject taught: English Language
Teacher Trainee
Pakalinding Upper Basic School
07.2004 - 07.2005
- Subjects taught: English Language, and Social and Environmental Studies.
Education
Ph.D. - History
Ohio University
Athens, Ohio12-2024
MA - History
Ohio University
Athens, Ohio12.2018
CTCHIG Graduate Certificate - Contemporary History
Ohio University
Athens, OH12.2018
MA - African History
University of The Gambia
Brikama, The Gambia05.2014
BA (Hons) - English and History
University of The Gambia
Brikama, The Gambia01.2011
Higher Teachers’ Certificate - High & Middle School
The Gambia College
Brikama, The Gambia09.2005
Association Union Membership
- Ohio University History Students’ Association (HGSA), Secretary 2017/18, Vice President 2018/2019
- The Gambia Teachers’ Union (GTU)
- The Gambia Teachers’ Union Co-operative Credit Union (GTU-CCU)
- African Students’ Union (Ohio University)
- African Studies Association (ASA)
- Senegambia Studies Association (SSA)
Publications
- Formation of Political Parties and Pre-independence Legislative Council Elections in Bathurst, 1947 -1954, Saidykhan, S., Fanneh M., Pierre Gomez, Hassoum Ceesay, A Geocritical Representation of Banjul (Bathurst) 1816-2016, Global Hands Publishing, 2018, 145-155
- The Empire’s Smallest Regiment: The Gambia Company of the West African Frontier Force, 1902 -1958, The Journal of African Military History
- Destruction of noxious beast: Ox-plowing, conservation, and the late colonial rule in The Gambia, West Africa, Journal of Middle East and West Africa, Incoming Peer Review
References
- Dr. Assan Sarr, Associate Professor of History, Ohio University, Bentley Annex 407, Athens, OH, 45701, sarr@ohio.edu, 740-593-4355
- Dr. Paul C. Milazzo, Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, History Department, Ohio University, Bentley Annex 449, Athens, OH, milazzo@ohio.edu, 740-593-4359
- Dr. Mariana Dantas, Associate Professor of History, Ohio University, Bentley Annex, Athens, OH, dantas@ohio.edu, 740-593-4319
Presentations Publications
- Who Manages and Benefits from Forestry? The Failures of Social and Natural Forestry in the 1970s post-Sahelian Drought in The Gambia, 11/30/23 - 12/01/23, 66th Annual Meeting, African Studies Association, San Francisco, CA
- Destruction of noxious beast: Ox-plowing, conservation, and the late colonial rule in The Gambia, West Africa, 11/04/23 - 11/06/23, 16th Annual Association for the Study of Middle East and Africa conference (ASMEA), Washington DC
- 2 shillings per tail inducement: Agriculture, Conservation, and late British Colonial Rule in the Gambia, West Africa, 04/15/23, Ohio University History Graduate Students’ Association Conference
- Nightmares of Eco-dictatorship: Community Forestry under Yahya Jammeh in The Gambia, 11/17/22 - 11/19/22, African Studies Association 65th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
- Failed Promises and Damaged Environment: Gambian Women and Consequences of Post-WWII Rice Mechanization projects, 1945 -1990, 02/15/20, Culture(s) in Conversation: Environments, Landscapes & Ecologies Conference, Bowling Green University, Ohio
- Resistance to Colonial Rule and the Transformation of the Jola Society in Foni District, 1893 -1923, 03/17/17 - 03/18/17, The History Graduate Student Association 12th Annual History Graduate Student Conference, Ohio University, Athens
- Anti-Escapist Novels: New Gambian Texts that Challenge Mobility Myths, 05/30/14 - 06/01/14, 2014 John Douglas Taylor Conference: Contemporary Orientations in African Cultural Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- African Literature Travelling Outside African Studies: Vision and Revisions of Europe in Gambian anti-emigration novels, 10/25/13, African Studies Association Conference, University of Ghana, Legon
Honors And Awards
- Outstanding Teaching Assistant-History, College of Arts and Sciences, Ohio University, 04/14/23
- ASMEA Research Grant, $2500.00, 06/01/23
- Baker Peace Fellowship, $19,300.00, 2023/24
- Ideas Matter US-Based Scholar Fellowship, $2,500.00, 2021/22
- Klinder Fellowship, $18,300, 2021/22
- Spring Graduate Research Fund, $250.00, 2019-20AY
- Travel Award, $1,800.00, 2019-20
- Research Grant, €2,500.00, 2019
- Travel Grant, 2016-2017
- The Chancellor’s Award for the overall Outstanding student in MA African History, 02/01/16
- Linnaeus Palme Award, 2010 – 2011
Timeline
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Boston College
08.2024 - Current
Instructor of Record
Ohio University
01.2022 - 01.2023
Adjunct Lecturer
University of The Gambia
01.2021 - 01.2022
Teaching Assistant
Ohio University
01.2018 - 01.2021
Lecturer
University of The Gambia
01.2014 - 01.2016
Adjunct Lecturer
The Gambia College
01.2014 - 01.2016
Graduate Assistant
University of The Gambia
09.2013 - 08.2014
High School Teacher
Kinderdorf Bottrop Technical Senior Secondary School
07.2012 - 07.2013
High School Teacher
Charles Jow Memorial Academy
08.2011 - 08.2012
Middle School Teacher
Jappineh Basic Cycle School
12.2005 - 12.2007
Teacher Trainee
Pakalinding Upper Basic School
07.2004 - 07.2005
Ph.D. - History
Ohio University
MA - History
Ohio University
CTCHIG Graduate Certificate - Contemporary History
Ohio University
MA - African History
University of The Gambia
BA (Hons) - English and History
University of The Gambia
Higher Teachers’ Certificate - High & Middle School
The Gambia College
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