CURICULUM VITAE Michael Gennaro [email protected]

EDUCATION 2010-Present University of Florida, Gainesville, FL PhD Candidate, African Minor Field – Modern

2008-2010 , Toronto, ON MA, History – British Empire

2000-2008 York University, Toronto, ON BA, History

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS • University of Florida, Graduate Student Dissertation Research Grant (Spring 2014) • British-Nigerian Educational Trust Commonwealth Fellowship at the University of , (Summer 2013) • University of Florida, Center for European Studies Course Development Grant (2013) • University of Florida Wilkerson Dissertation Travel Award (Summer 2013) • University of Florida, Center for African Studies Predissertation Grant (2012) • University of Florida, Center for European Studies Predissertation Grant (2012) • University of Florida, History Graduate Society Predissertation Grant (2012) • York University, History Research Grant (2009)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE • Spring 2014 Teaching Associate – The History of British Sport • Fall 2013 Teaching Associate – Modern African Sports History • Spring 2013 Teaching Assistant – African History: 1800 to the Present • Fall 2012 Teaching Assistant – American Foreign Policy: 1914 to the Present • Spring 2012 Teaching Assistant – History of the Holocaust • Fall 2011 Teaching Assistant – American Foreign Policy: 1914 to the Present • Spring 2011 Teaching Assistant – African History: 1800 to the Present • Fall 2010 Teaching Assistant – African History to 1800

PUPLICATIONS

Michael Gennaro, “‘The Whole Place is in Pandemonium’: Dick Tiger Versus Gene Fullmer in 1963 and the Consumption of Boxing and Sport in Nigeria.” The International Journal of the History of Sport, Regional Issue: . 30:16 (2013), 1903-1914.

Michael Gennaro, book review of “Beer, Sociability, and Masculinity in South Africa” by Anne Kelk Mager. Alpata: A Journal of History. Spring 2011 (8): 197. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Research Assistant, York University, Department of History Under Dr. Paul Lovejoy, Distinguish Professor of History, Fall/Winter 2008 • Conducted research on the letters of Henry Laurens, a slave trader in the Senegambia Region, 18th century • Conducted an annotated bibliography for the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples • Compiling a digitized database of judicial cases in American slavery

ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE • 2011-12 Treasurer, History Graduate Society, University of Florida • 2008-09 Vice President, Graduate Student History Association, York University

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2013 Toyin Falola Annual International Conference on Africa and the African at Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria – July 2013 Paper Title: “Sporting Diaspora: Nigerian Boxers in Liverpool, 1940-1970”

13th Annual Africa Conference at the University of Texas at Austin, March 2013 Paper Title: “The Social History of Boxing in Nigeria, 1920-1970: Preliminary Research Findings”

9th Michigan State University Africanist Conference, October 2012 Paper Title: “The Social History of Boxing in Nigeria, 1920-1970: Preliminary Research Findings”

History Graduate Society Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Florida, March 2012 Paper Title: “The Great White Yokel: American Boxing Movies and Their Dissemination to Bollywood, Nollywood and Beyond”

14th New Frontiers Conference, York University, February 2010 Paper Title: “Cecil Rhodes and the Jesuit Secret Society”