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Derek R. Peterson
Associate Professor
Ph.D, University of Minnesota, 2000
Other U of M Affiliation:
Center for Afro-American and African Studies
Contact Information:
University of Michigan
1634 Haven Hall
Phone:
734-615-3608
E-mail:
drpeters@umich.edu
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Field(s) of Study:
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century African history; history of religion; history of the book; ethnicity and political culture in eastern Africa
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Biography:
Derek Peterson received a Ph.D. in African History from the University of Minnesota in 2000. He taught for several years at the College of New Jersey, then took up a lectureship in African History at the University of Cambridge. From 2004 to 2009 he was Director of the Centre of African Studies and Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. In 2007 he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize, given to scholars based at Britain universities (under 36 years old) for accomplishments in research. In 2009 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He joined the History Department at Michigan in 2009.
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Selected Publications:
Creative Writing: Translation, Bookkeeping, and the Work of Imagination in Colonial Kenya (Heinemann, 2004).
http://books.heinemann.com/products/E07131.aspx
Recasting the Past: History Writing and Political Work in Modern Africa, co-edited with Giacomo Macola (Ohio, 2009). http://www.ohioswallow.com/book/Recasting+the+Past
Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa and the Atlantic, editor (Ohio, forthcoming in 2010).
Writing for Kenya: Henry Muoria's Life and Works, co-edited with Wangari Muoria-Sal, Bodil Folke Frederiksen, and John Lonsdale (Brill, 2009).
http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=24121
The Invention of Religion: Rethinking Belief in Politics and History, co-edited with Darren Walhof (Rutgers, 2002).
http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/__The_Invention_of_Religion_793.html
"Religion," in Philippa Levine and John Mariott (eds.), Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Imperial Histories (London: Ashgate, forthcoming).
"The Intellectual Lives of Mau Mau Detainees," Journal of African History 49 (1) (2008).
"Morality Plays: Marriage, Church Courts and Colonial Agency in Tanganyika, c. 1880-1928," American Historical Review, 111 (4) (2006).
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Current Projects:
The Pilgrims' Politics: Conversion, Dissent, and the Making of Civil Societies in Colonial East Africa (book manuscript in progress).
The Social Lives of Mau Mau Detainees (edited book manuscript in progress, with Ann Biersteker and Kimani wa Njogu).
"Nursing in Central Tanganyika" (article manuscript in preparation).
"Photography and History in Colonial Kenya" (article manuscript in preparation).
Other professional work:
Member of the editorial boards of African Affairs, The Journal of Modern African Studies, The African Historical Review, and the Fontes Historiae Africanae book series (British Academy/Oxford University Press).
Member of the Publications Committee of the International African Institute
Elected member of the governing council of the African Studies Association (United Kingdom)
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