Christian Alvarado, Ph.D. is President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis. He earned his doctorate in History of Consciousness (with a Designated Emphasis in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies) from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2023. His current book project situates the event most commonly known as the Mau Mau Uprising in late-colonial Kenya within the broader history of decolonization in 20th century Africa. By tracing how understandings of this event circulated across transnational networks and cultural formations, this work aims to show how the frameworks to which Mau Mau is put illuminate novel insights into the global dimensions of African decolonization. A historian by training, Alvarado’s work also spans the fields of cultural studies, literary theory, and African studies.