CRG African History members
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Aimé González
Universidad de Comillas; and Grupo de Estudios Africanos, universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Regions and countries of specialization: Subsaharan Africa, Horn of Africa, Ethiopia
Topics: Theory and History of International Relations, with a focus on Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa; European expansion and African resistance and adaptation PhD in International Relations and African Studies: "The Transformation of International Society. Change and Continuity in the Western "civilisational reason" through its encounter with Ethiopia"
Angelo
European University Institute
Regions and countries of specialization: Kenya
Topics: Postcolonial history, Study of presidentialism
Austin
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva
Regions and countries of specialization: West Africa, Ghana
Topics: Comparative economic history
Awenengo Dalberto
CEMAf Paris
Regions and countries of specialization: West Africa, Senegal
Topics: Borders, identity, conflicts
Bakewell
International Migration Institute, University of Oxford
Topics: Borders, forced migration
Baller
University of Basel
Regions and countries of specialization: West Africa, Senegal
Topics: Urban history, youth and sport history
Becker
CAS Cambridge
Regions and countries of specialization: East Africa, Tanzania
Topics: Gender, women, family history and women's history
Benes
Bersselaar
Universität Leipzig - Institute of African Studies
Regions and countries of specialization: West Africa, Ghana, Nigeria
Topics: Perceptions of status, Perceptions of culture, Perceptions of ethnicity, Perceptions of identity in colonial and post-colonial West Africa
Bertho
University LLCEE Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle
Regions and countries of specialization: Guinea, Niger, Zimbabwe
Topics: Literature, studies, resistance, heroes, Conakry region
Beucher
ULB Brussels
Regions and countries of specialization: Burkina Faso
Topics: Political history
Boilley
CEMAF Paris
Regions and countries of specialization: West Africa, Mali
Topics: Armed conflicts,Touareg
Boonen
Ghent University
Regions and countries of specialization: Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa)
Topics: History, colonized and decolonized, urban spaces
Bowman
Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh
Regions and countries of specialization: Southern Africa, South Africa, Zambia
Topics: Political economy, mining, energy, agriculture; Mining and the extractive industries; Energy & Infrastructure, privatisation, industrial policy, Financialization, Science and technology for development, agricultural development, accounting and finance.
Brinkman
Leiden University
Regions and countries of specialization: Angola
Topics: Communication technologies, social relations
Browne
Durham University
Regions and countries of specialization: East Africa, Uganda
Topics: The politics of landscape and identity in Uganda's Albertine borderlands since c.1850
Brühwiler
Michigan State University
Regions and countries of specialization: East Africa, Tanzania
Topics: Urban history, history of capitalism
Bruijn
Leiden University
Regions and countries of specialization: Central Africa, West Africa
Topics: Mobility, communication, technologies, risk, management
Bruzzone
University of Warwick
Regions and countries of specialization: Horn of Africa, Kenya, Somalia
Topics: Borderlands, transnational and trans-colonial history, political violence and state formation.
Candotti
SOAS London
Regions and countries of specialization: Nigeria
Topics: African economic history
Castryck
University of Leipzig - Centre for Area Studies
Regions and countries of specialization: Central Africa, East Africa, Great lakes, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa), Tanzania
Topics: urban history, global history, border towns, Islam, Indian Ocean world, colonialism, 19th and 20th centuries
Chanfi Ahmed
Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin
Regions and countries of specialization: East Africa, West Africa, Uganda
Topics: Islamic history
Chouin
William and Mary University
Regions and countries of specialization: West Africa
Topics: Conflict, violence, history of food
Coghe
Humboldt University Berlin
Regions and countries of specialization: Central Africa, West Africa, Angola, Mozambique
Topics: History of the slave trade/slavery and abolition, colonial Africa, history of medicine, history of demography, transnational history, global history
Cohen
Topics: Economic and political history of southern Africa.
Cullen
Durham University
Regions and countries of specialization: Kenya, Somalia
Topics: British military diplomacy in africa during decolonization and post colonization
Dainese
IUAV University of Venice and University of Pennsylvania
Topics: European and US Interest in Sub-Saharan Africa; Architectural and Urban History of Sub-Saharan Africa
Deleigne
CEPED Paris
Regions and countries of specialization: Subsaharan Africa, Madagascar
Topics: Education politics and practices
Dietz
African Studies Centre Leiden/ Leiden University
Regions and countries of specialization: East Africa, Cameroon
Topics: Human geography, political geography, environmental geography, geography and developing countries
Dijk
African Studies Centre Leiden/ University of Leiden
Regions and countries of specialization: West Africa
Topics: Law forestry
Dirirsa
Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology
Regions and countries of specialization: Subsaharan Africa, East Africa, Great lakes, Horn of Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
Topics: Nation and Nationalism in view of African History (Oromo polity during the 16th century as a vantage point) Global Intellectual history from an African vantage point Conceptual History and philosophical hermeneutics from African vantage point The national question from a historical perspective( Modern African history) Self-determination and the right to secession from a global as well as African perspective
Doortmont
University of Groningen
Regions and countries of specialization: West Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa
Topics: historiography, theory, and methodology of African history, the Dutch and the Black Atlantic, Ghanaian-Dutch relationships and mutual cultural heritage, South-African history
Doyle
University of Leeds
Regions and countries of specialization: East Africa, Great lakes, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
Topics: Demographic, medical, family history. Ankole, Buganda, Buhaya, Bunyoro, Chagga, Gikuyu.
Eckert
Humboldt University Berlin
Regions and countries of specialization: Cameroon, Tanzania
Topics: History of the state, urban history, historiography, history of labor
Edeagu
University of Bayreuth, Germany (BIGSAS and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences), Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Nigeria
Regions and countries of specialization: Subsaharan Africa, West Africa, Nigeria
Topics: colonial history, global history, print media, literacy, (higher) education
Everill
King's College London
Regions and countries of specialization: Liberia, Sierra Leone
Topics: Abolition empire
Ferenc
Central European University of Budapest
Regions and countries of specialization: Ethiopia, South Soudan
Topics: Nation building, citizenship, bureaucracy
Frede
Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies
Regions and countries of specialization: Mauritania, Senegal
Topics: Sociology of islam, contemporary sufism
Froment
École Normale Supérieure, Institut d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine
Regions and countries of specialization: East Africa, Tanzania
Topics: History of sciences and cartography ; History of Eastern Africa ; History of Kilimanjaro ; Imperial history (Great-Britain and Germany)
Galitzine-Loumpet
Collège d'études mondiales
Regions and countries of specialization: Cameroon
Topics: Exil and literature history, scenography of museums
Gary-Tounkara
LAM Bordeaux
Regions and countries of specialization: Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Senegal
Topics: Migrations, displacement
Gebeyehu
Bahir Dar University
Topics: Peace and security, social movements
Gewald
African Studies Centre Leiden/ Leiden University
Regions and countries of specialization: Namibia
Topics: German colonial rule, history of agency, heroic cultures
Gibbs
University of Cambridge
Regions and countries of specialization: South Africa
Topics: Ethnicity, nationalism, chieftaincy, elites, rural-urban migration
Glasman
Geschichte Afrikas, Universität Bayreuth, Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Regions and countries of specialization: Togo
Topics: Police and security forces in colonial history
Goerg
CESSMA
Regions and countries of specialization: Guinea, Sierra Leone
Topics: Urban history, Demographic history
Greenfield-Liebst
Grémont
IRD
Regions and countries of specialization: Mali
Topics: Identity, Tuareg peoples
Grilli
University of Pavia
Topics: Pan-africanism
Groves
University of Cambridge
Regions and countries of specialization: Central Africa, Southern Africa, Malawi, South Africa, Zimbabwe
Topics: Migration, Urbanisation, Transnationalism
Herzog
Department of HIstory, University of Basel
Hiribarren
King's College London
Regions and countries of specialization: Nigeria
Topics: Editing African history, History of territories and boundaries
Hoffmann
Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies - Free University Berlin
Regions and countries of specialization: Kenya
Topics: Meanings of School in Post-Colonial Coastal Kenya
Huber
Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften
Regions and countries of specialization: Subsaharan Africa, West Africa, Horn of Africa, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Senegal
Topics: UN and UN agencies in Africa 1950-1980; Ethiopian cultural heritage; tourism and development; aviation history; corporate history of public enterprises in postcolonial francophone West-Africa; state modernisation and nation building in the "development decade" 1960-1970
Hufschmidt
Hunt
Center for African Studies, University of Florida
Regions and countries of specialization: Burundi, Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville), Rwanda
Topics: Nancy Rose Hunt, Professor of History & African Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville Co-editor with Achille Mbembe of “Theory in Forms” a book series with Duke University Press (Professor Emerita of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) DR Congo, Belgian Africa; histories and anthropologies of psychiatry, madness, reproduction, borders, gender, the vernacular and the comic arts); history & theory; theory in forms.
Hunter
University of Edinburgh
Regions and countries of specialization: East Africa, Kenya, Senegal, Tanzania
Topics: Intellectual history, History of print culture
Hynd
University of Exeter
Regions and countries of specialization: East Africa, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania
Topics: Law, Gender, Violence, Warfare
Jansen
Faculty of Social Sciences, Leiden University
Regions and countries of specialization: Subsaharan Africa, Mali
Topics: Mining, history of the Mali Empire, oral history, livelihood strategies; Oral tradition
Jessee
University of Strathclyde
Regions and countries of specialization: Great lakes, Rwanda, Uganda
Topics: civilians' experiences of transitional justice, mass atrocities, oral historical research, ethnographic research
Jones
University of Leipzig
Regions and countries of specialization: West Africa, Tanzania
Topics: Source criticism, Mission photographs, Art history
Kanyingi
Karatina University
Kapteijns
Wellesley College
Regions and countries of specialization: East Africa, Somalia, Sudan
Topics: In the context of Somalia: Islam, gender and women history, history of clan-based violence against civilians, popular culture, discourse analysis; source publications of Arabic and Somali texts; most recently especially the Islamic knowledge production of the small port city of Brava (on the Somali Benadir coast) in the 19th and 20th century
Keese
Humboldt University Berlin
Topics: Labour history, Forced labour
Koenig
University of Copenhagen
Regions and countries of specialization: Kenya, Nigeria
Topics: Western Classical Music in sub-Saharan Africa
Kunstmann
London Business School, University of London
Regions and countries of specialization: West Africa, Ghana, Nigeria
Topics: Decolonisation, Print Cultures, Photography, Nationalism, Ethnicity.
Lagae
University of Gent
Regions and countries of specialization: Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa)
Topics: Architecture, Urban planning
Larmer
University of Oxford
Regions and countries of specialization: Central Africa, Southern Africa
Topics: Katangese gendarmes, Transnational conflicts
Lauterbach
Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen
Regions and countries of specialization: West Africa, Ghana
Topics: religion, Christianity, culture, politics, Asante history
Law
University of Stirling
Regions and countries of specialization: West Africa
Topics: Pre-colonial West African history, Transatlantic slave trade
LeCocq
Universiteit Gent
Regions and countries of specialization: Sahel, Mali
Topics: Slavery societies, post-slavery societies, History of Islam in West-Africa, History of Tuareg peoples
Lee
Goldsmiths
Regions and countries of specialization: Southern Africa, Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia
Topics: Social and cultural history of South Africa; migration and urbanisation; gender; oral history; health and illness; death studies
Lefebvre
IMAF
Regions and countries of specialization: Sudan
Topics: Itinerary, Geographical knowledge in central Sudan in the 19th century
Lenggenhager
University of Basel
Regions and countries of specialization: Subsaharan Africa, Southern Africa, Namibia, South Africa
Leonardi
Durham University
Regions and countries of specialization: South Soudan
Topics: Government, Chiefship
Lukasiewicz
Institute for African Studies
Regions and countries of specialization: Subsaharan Africa, Southern Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Topics: I am a historian of Southern Africa, with research and teaching interests in the history of economic institutions and financial intermediaries. Although my work focuses on Africa south of the Zambezi, my primary research objective is in situating South African history within the history of the African continent, European imperialism and 19th century financial globalisation.
Majerovičová
Mark
Wesleyan university
Regions and countries of specialization: West Africa, Morocco
Topics: Art history, Slave trade, Art and trade
Mark-Thiesen
Universität Basel
Regions and countries of specialization: Subsaharan Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Liberia
Martineau
CESSMA
Regions and countries of specialization: Benin, Nigeria
Topics: Education politics, Identity and citizenship in Yoruba Nigeria
Massimo
Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Università degli Studi di Pavia
Mathys
Ghent University
Regions and countries of specialization: Great lakes
Topics: Borders, Mobility, Migration
McCaskie
SOAS
Regions and countries of specialization: Ghana
Topics: Asante history
McDonald
Médard
IMAF
Regions and countries of specialization: East Africa, Great lakes, Uganda
Topics: Trade and politics in XIXth century Buganda
Mertens
Ghent University
Regions and countries of specialization: Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa)
Topics: History of medicine, History of public health, XIXth and XXth centuries
Mesplé-Somps
Joint Research Unit IRD - University Paris-Dauphine
Regions and countries of specialization: Central Africa, West Africa, Maghreb, Sahel
Topics: Public finance and Development in the French Empire
Mihatsch
Université libre de Bruxelles
Regions and countries of specialization: Egypt, South Soudan, Sudan
Topics: Colonial History, Political History, Nationalism
Moraes Farias
University of Birmingham
Regions and countries of specialization: West Africa, Mali
Topics: Medieval history of West Africa
Morier-Genoud
Queen's University Belfast
Regions and countries of specialization: Mozambique
Topics: Mozambique, Portuguese-speaking Africa, politics, history, war, religion
Muschik
Freie Universität Berlin
Nolte
University of Birmingham
Regions and countries of specialization: Nigeria
Topics: Yoruba history, culture and politics
Nugent
University of Edingburgh
Regions and countries of specialization: Ghana, South Africa, Uganda
Topics: African borderlands, Wine history, Comparative African History, Taxation, African militaries and bureaucracies, Colonial and imperial history, Slavery and Slave Trade, Ghana politics and history
O'Hear
Topics: Nigeria: Yorubaland, especially Ilorin: slavery and related topics; historiography; craft industries, especially weaving, pottery making and "lantana" bead making. Also northeast Yorubaland.
Odler
Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
Regions and countries of specialization: North Africa, Egypt, Sudan
Oestermann
Humboldt University
Topics: Labour history, African business history, History of aid
Oppen
University of Bayreuth
Regions and countries of specialization: East Africa, Southern Africa
Topics: Social history, Religious history, Rural history
Palma
University of Naples "L'Orientale"
Regions and countries of specialization: Horn of Africa
Topics: Photography as source of African history, Eritrea colonial history, Ethiopian colonial history, Colonial memories and legacies, History of education in Eritrea, Italian colonialism
Pesa
University of Groningen
Topics: social and environmental history, mining, oral history
Pinaud
NYU Shanghai
Regions and countries of specialization: South Soudan
Topics: Gender violence
Plasencia
Duke University in Madrid
Topics: Photography in West Africa, particularly in Equatorial Guinea during the Spanish colonisation.
Pondopoulo
CESSMA
Regions and countries of specialization: West Africa
Topics: Fulani societies, Nationalism
Pottier
SOAS
Regions and countries of specialization: Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda
Topics: Food security, Urban security, Humanitarian intervention, Media representation of conflicts
Ramos
University of Lisbon
Regions and countries of specialization: Ethiopia
Topics: History of Ethiopia
Reid
SOAS
Regions and countries of specialization: East Africa, Uganda
Topics: Nationalism
Richard
Leiden University
Regions and countries of specialization: Ghana, Senegal
Topics: Relationship between Africa and Europe in the 20th century, Focus on Senegal and Ghana
Rittgerodt
Rodet
SOAS
Regions and countries of specialization: West Africa
Topics: Modern gender history, Migration history
Rolandsen
Peace Research Institute Oslo
Regions and countries of specialization: East Africa, Horn of Africa
Topics: Political violence and democratization
Roo
Ghent University
Regions and countries of specialization: Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa)
Topics: Customs, contraband, Congo free state, Belgian Congo
Ross
Leiden University
Regions and countries of specialization: South Africa
Topics: Colonial South Africa, Consumption patterns
Rossi
University of Birmingham
Regions and countries of specialization: West Africa
Topics: Slavery, Emancipation, Labour, Migrations, Governance, History and impacts of planned development
Rudiš
The University of West Bohemia
Regions and countries of specialization: Maghreb, Egypt, Morocco
Topics: Islamic architecture, urbanism in Northern Africa
Ruether
University of Vienna
Regions and countries of specialization: South Africa
Topics: Health, Belief systems
Russel
Graduate Institute of Geneva
Regions and countries of specialization: Great lakes
Topics: Emergence of great Lakes region through the 1960s and 1970s
Rüther
Schrijver
Topics: Islam, Religious authorities
Sebabatso
University of Oxford
Regions and countries of specialization: Sudan
Topics: Sudan People’s Liberation Army or Movement
Seibert
The American University of Cairo
Regions and countries of specialization: Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa)
Topics: History of central Africa, History of labor
Sharp
University Oxford Brookes
Regions and countries of specialization: Cameroun
Topics: Decolonisation, Liberation movements, Commemoration
Skinner
University of Birmingham
Topics: Formal schooling, Local-language literacy, Political mobilisation in the colonial and post-colonial periods
Šmejda
Smirnova
School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris
Topics: social movements, politics, higher education, violence, Africans in Russia
Smis
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Regions and countries of specialization: Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa)
Topics: International law, International dispute settlement, Human rights law, Humanitarian law, Prosecution of grave breaches of human rights, States in transition, Regional and economic integration in Africa
Smith
Sciences Po
Regions and countries of specialization: West Africa, Rwanda
Topics: Transnational electoral behaviours, Nationalism
Soeters
Topics: Urban developmental issues, Urban food security
Soi
Centro di Studi Africani in Sardegna
Regions and countries of specialization: Great lakes, Rwanda, Sudan, Uganda
Topics: Borders, Refugee issues, Conflicts analysis, Islam in the Great Lakes Region
Strickrodt
Humboldt University Berlin
Regions and countries of specialization: West Africa
Topics: Africa before 1900, Slavery, Christian missions
Thibon
UPPA
Topics: afrique des grands lacs et afrique de l'Est démographie historique
Tiquet
Humboldt University Berlin
Regions and countries of specialization: West Africa
Topics: Forced labour
Tischler
University of Basel
Regions and countries of specialization: Southern Africa
Topics: Agriculture, labour, environmental history, race, development, settler colonialism
Tödt
Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-University Berlin
Regions and countries of specialization: West Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa)
Topics: colonial history, urban studies, global history, labour history, middle class
Triulzi
Emeritus
Regions and countries of specialization: Horn of Africa
Topics: Ethiopian studies, Transnational migration
Turtio
Center for African Studies, Harvard University
Regions and countries of specialization: Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Tunisia
Topics: Decolonization, State-building, Military
Tymowski
University of Warsaw
Regions and countries of specialization: Mali
Topics: Songhai empire, Economic history
Unterholzner
van der Merwe
Stellenbosch University
Regions and countries of specialization: Subsaharan Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, Rwanda, South Africa
Topics: African social history, popular music and identity
van Zyl-Hermann
University of Basel
Regions and countries of specialization: Kenya, South Africa
Topics: identity, labour, social movements, race, class, knowledge production, health and healing
Vandepitte
Vaughan
University of Cambridge
Regions and countries of specialization: Malawi, Zambia
Topics: Social and economic and cultural history of Africa, History of medicine and psychiatry in Africa, Slavery in the Indian Ocean
Vaughan
Durham University
Regions and countries of specialization: South Soudan, Sudan
Topics: Colonial history
Verbuyst
History Department, Ghent University; Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of the Western Cape
Regions and countries of specialization: Southern Africa, Ghana, South Africa
Topics: Khoisan revivalism; Cape Town; South Africa; Settler Colonialism; indigeneity; uses of the past
Vernet
IMAF
Regions and countries of specialization: Subsaharan Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, Comoros, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
Topics: Pre-nineteenth century African history, Swahili World ca.1500-1820, East Africa and the Indian Ocean, medieval and early modern African history, Swahili Coast, Urbanism, Social history, coast-mainland connections, African Archaeology, Slavery, Slave trade.
Vervust
Ghent University
Regions and countries of specialization: Rwanda
Topics: Ethnicity, Identity
Vezzadini
IMAF
Regions and countries of specialization: Sudan
Topics: Nationalism, Slave descendants, social history of colonial Sudan
Vidrovitch
Emeritus
Topics: Capitalism and African history
Walraven
African Studies Centre Leiden
Regions and countries of specialization: West Africa, Niger
Topics: Political history, International relations
Watson
University of Cambridge
Regions and countries of specialization: West Africa, Nigeria
Topics: Social and cultural history of colonial West Africa
Weiss
Abo Akademi University
Topics: Early modern globalization and creolization during the era of the tarns-Atlantic slave trade, International solidarity, Utopian aspirations and global political consciousness during the inter-war Period in Europe and Beyond
Whittaker
Brunel University London
Regions and countries of specialization: East Africa, North Africa
Topics: Social history, Shifta conflict, Kenya, Somalia
Whyte
University of Kent
Regions and countries of specialization: Liberia, Sierra Leone
Topics: Resistance, Abolition, Black imperialism, Education
Willis
Durham University
Regions and countries of specialization: Kenya, Sudan
Topics: Voting, Political behaviour, Democracy in sub-Saharan Africa
Wion
Topics: Ethiopian Christian kingdom in medieval and modern times
Zahorik
University of New York in Prague
Regions and countries of specialization: East Africa, Ethiopia
Topics: Socio-political development of contemporary Ethiopia
Zeman
Zöller
University of Bayreuth
Regions and countries of specialization: Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa)
Topics: The Manyema connection: Islam, mobility and urbanity in eastern Congo and Tanganyika, 1910s to 1950s
Zumthurm
Institut für Medizingeschichte, University of Bern
Regions and countries of specialization: Central Africa, Southern Africa, Gabon, Namibia
Topics: History of (Bio)Medicine, Food, Environment, Climate