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Caitlin Monroe

Caitlin Monroe

Assistant Professor

Department of History
College of Humanities & Social Sciences

Contact Information

Office
Ross 3290D
Office Hours
On leave Fall 2025, by appointment
Mailing Address
University of Northern Colorado
Department of History
Campus Box 116
Greeley, CO 80639

Education

B.A., African History, Stanford University

M.A., African Studies, Stanford University

M.A., History, Northwestern University

Ph.D., African History, Northwestern University

Research/Areas of Interest

Intellectual and gender history, Uganda & East African history, and histories of education.

Publications/Creative Works

"Of Cattle and Community: Identiy, Hertiage, and Gendered History Education in Western Uganda's Nanga Performances, 1900-Present, "Journal of African History  (forthcoming) 

"Searching for Nyabongo" An unconventional Uganda intellectual and the limits of global history," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 42 (August 2022) 

"The World in A Year: Exploring contingency, context, and the politics of history in a reimagined global history class" The History Teacher 57, no.1 (November 2023.)

"The Timeline Game: Constructing Historical Narratives in History Survey Courses" Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 48, no.1 (2023)

Honors and Awards

NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow, 2025-2026

HSS Excellence in Teaching Award, 2025

Fulbright IIE fellow, 2018-2019