Dr Brenda McCollum

Brenda McCollum did her Bachelors degree at Baker University, in Kansas, USA. Following her undergraduate degree in History and International Studies, she came to the UK in 2018 for the MSc in African Studies at Oxford. After completing the MSc, she began the DPhil in History, also at Oxford and is currently in the final months of her doctoral degree. Her dissertation focused on the histories of Muslims and Islam in southern Uganda, in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In her doctoral work, her methodologies included oral history interviews and archival research. Additionally, during her doctoral degree she taught undergraduate history courses in Oxford's History Faculty.