Trevor Getz

Trevor R. Getz is an award-winning historian and professor at San Francisco State University whose work crosses multiple media including graphic novels, animation, and film. His work emphasizes the tensions at intersections of power, knowledge, and identity, particularly in colonial Africa and globally across the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is the author or co-author of twelve books, including the graphic history Abina and the Important Men (2011), Empires and Colonies in the Modern World (2015), and the forthcoming The Long Nineteenth Century: Crucible of Modernity, which describes the global transformations that culminated in the First World War. He sits on the advisory board of the Veteran Documentary Corps, the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability, and the Bill and Melinda Gates World History Project, and is editor of the Oxford University Press African World Histories series.