Ph.D
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
About
Dr. LoBue is a visiting assistant professor of history at Valparaiso University for the 2025-2026 academic year. He received his PhD in African and Global History from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he taught courses on Modern African History, Modern South Asian History, and the Global History of the Automobile.
Dr. LoBue is a historian of Modern Africa and the Global Cold War, with a regional focus on the Swahili-speaking region of East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda). He also specializes in Indian Ocean World history and the histories of the Afro-Asian and Non-Aligned Movements. His areas of teaching interest include Africa’s Cold Wars, Afro-Asianism and Decolonization, intellectual history, histories of print culture and propaganda, and Afrofuturism and African Science Fiction. Dr. LoBue is interested in helping students understand the active role that Africa and Africans have played, and continue to play, in global history and processes.
Classes Taught
- The World in the Twentieth Century
- Controversies in African History
- Revolt and Revival in African History
- African History and Society
- Global History of the Automobile.
