Dr. Hannah Vidmar (she/her/hers) is an educator, researcher, and writer. She received her doctorate in African American and African Studies from the Ohio State University in 2020. Broadly, her areas of research interest include postcolonial studies, hip-hop studies, urban histories, East African history, digital media studies, and cultural politics of Africa and the African Diaspora. Her dissertation, ‘Sikia: Hip-Hop and the Politics of Language and Public Space in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, addresses the intersection of youth performance, language practices, and resistance politics in postcolonial Tanzania, examining the hybrid use of English and Swahili—referred to as Swanglish—in contemporary hip-hop and spoken word art within the country’s largest city, Dar es Salaam. She served as the 2019-2020 African and African Diaspora Studies Dissertation Fellow at Boston College. In the classroom, she works on course and curriculum design specifically focused on high quality instruction and deeper learning rooted in developing historical inquiry, historical empathy, and civic engagement through culturally affirming pedagogies. She’s currently a history instructor at Massachusetts’ first early-college high school, New Heights Charter School of Brockton.