Thomas McDow is Associate Professor of history in the fields of African history, the Indian Ocean World, and the history of global health. He is the author of Buying Time: Debt and Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean (2018), and, with Edward A. Alpers, A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean History (for a series at Duke University Press; manuscript under review). McDow is currently working on a history of HIV in Tanzania. He has written about the long history of HIV and given public lectures on the global aspects of this history. Some of McDow's regular undergraduate courses include HISTORY 3307: The History of African Health and Healing and HISTORY/MICROBIOLOGY 3704 HIV: From Microbiology to Macrohistory (an interdisciplinary course on the science and history of HIV co-taught with virologist Jesse Kwiek). In addition to his regular classes, McDow has advised undergraduate research, led study abroad trips to Tanzania, overseen a research collaborative on African scientists, and guided summer workshops on applying for Fulbright awards and other fellowships.