Caitlin Barker is currently a Brady-Johnson Predoctoral Fellow in International Security Studies at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs. She is also a PhD candidate in History at Michigan State University. Caitlin is trained in modern African and Chinese history, and her dissertation is a diplomatic history from below of Cameroon’s relationship with China and Taiwan during the Cold War.
Caitlin’s research has been supported by a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowship and an International Dissertation Research Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council, among other grants. She currently serves as a book review editor for H-Africa and as board secretary and website and communications coordinator for the Chinese in Africa/Africans in China (CA/AC) Research Network. Her writing has appeared in Cold War History, the Journal of West African History, Connections: A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists, and H-Net Reviews. Caitlin received her BA in political science from Kenyon College.