Lacy Feigh is a historian of modern Ethiopia and the greater Nile Valley interested in legacies of slavery, empire, and constructions of race. Utilizing an array of sources from legal archival records to modern art and literature, Feigh’s research examines how individuals navigated the expansion of the modern Ethiopian imperial state in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her broader work aims to bridge histories of Africa and the Middle East through the lives of individuals and ideas which traveled widely across these historiographically-imposed borders.

Baldwin Circle Theme: Reading Baldwin Through the Lens of Palestine