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Nancy Rose Hunt
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Wisconsin, 1992
Other U of M Affiliation:
IRWG (Institute for Research on Gender and Women);
Obstetrics & Gynecology, Medical School
Contact Information:
University of Michigan
1735 Haven Hall
Phone:
734-647-4887
E-mail:
nrhunt@umich.edu
Office Hours:
On leave Fall 2009
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Field(s) of Study:
Africa; gender history; medicine, health, and the body; colonial studies; historical ethnography and anthropological history; objects—their histories and semiotics; childbirth and reproductive medicine; comics and cultural production; religious movements; experiments in narrative form; francophone central Africa; African cities; Ghana, Burundi, Rwanda, and especially Congo (Zaire)
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Biography:
Nancy Hunt primarily works on the social and cultural history of gender, medicine, the body, and objects in Africa, notably Congo-Zaire. She has done fieldwork in Burundi, Congo, and Ghana. She received her B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1980 and her Ph.D. in African History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1992. She has been a co-editor of Gender & History since 2001; and she directed the transnational research seminar program, the “Women’s Health in the City of Accra” Project from 1999-2002.
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Selected Publications:
A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999. Received the Melville J. Herskovits Book Award for the Best Scholarly Book in African Studies, 2000.
Gendered Colonialisms in African History. Edited by Nancy Rose Hunt, Tessie R. Liu, and Jean Quataert. Introduction authored by Nancy Rose Hunt. London: Blackwell, 1997.
“Gender on the Edge,” with Kathleen Canning, Shani D’Cruze, and Clare Midgley, Gender and History 14 (2002): 1-6.
"Tintin and the Interruptions of Congolese Comics," pp. 90-123 in Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa, edited by Paul S. Landau and Deborah Kaspin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
"Placing African Women's History and Locating Gender," Social History 14 (1989): 359-79.
“Between Fiction and History: Modes of Writing Abortion in Africa,” in SSRC-sponsored volume, The Locations of African Literature, edited by Eileen Julien and Biodun Jeyifo. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forthcoming.
“Colonial Medical Anthropology and the Making of the Central African Infertility Belt,” in Anthropology, Imperialism, and the Ordering of Africa, edited by Helen Tilley and Robert Gordon. Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming.
“Normality and a ‘Disease of Civilization’: Eclampsia and Race in the Congo and the U.S. South,” in Discovering Normality in Health and the Reproductive Body, edited by Caroline H. Bledsoe. Evanston: Program on African Studies, 2002.
"'Le bébé en brousse': European Women, African Birth Spacing and Colonial Intervention in Breast Feeding in the Belgian Congo," International Journal of African Historical Studies 21 (1988): 401-32.
Reprinted in Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World, edited by Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
"Noise over Camouflaged Polygamy, Colonial Morality Taxation, and a Woman-Naming Crisis in Belgian Africa," Journal of African History 32 (1991): 471-94.
Reprinted in Readings in Gender in Africa, edited by Andrea Cornwall. London and Bloomington: James Currey and Indiana University Press, 2004.
"Domesticity and Colonialism in Belgian Africa: Usumbura's Foyer Social, 1946-1960," Signs 15 (1990): 447-74.
Reprinted in Ties That Bind: Essays on Mothering and Patriarchy, edited by Jean F. O'Barr, Deborah Pope and Mary Wyer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
"STDs, Suffering, and Their Derivatives in Congo/Zaire: Notes toward an Historical Ethnography of Disease," pp. 111-131 in Vivre et penser le sida en Afrique / Experiencing and Understanding AIDS in Africa, edited by C. Becker et al. Paris: Codesria, IRD, Karthala, 1999.
"Letter-Writing, Nursing Men, and Bicycles in the Belgian Congo: Notes towards the Social Identity of a Colonial Category," pp. 187-210 in Paths toward the Past: African Historical Essays in Honor of Jan Vansina, edited by Robert W. Harms, Joseph C. Miller, David S. Newbury, and Michele D. Wagner. Atlanta: African Studies Association Press, 1994.
"Colonial Fairy Tales and the Knife and Fork Doctrine in the Heart of Africa," pp. 143-71 in African Encounters with Domesticity, edited by Karen Tranberg Hansen. Rutgers: Rutgers University Press, 1992.
“New Anthropological Perspectives for Historians?” Journal of African History 43 (2002): 145-48.
"Condoms, Confessors, Conferences: Among AIDS Derivatives in Africa," ii: the Journal of the International Institute 4, no. 3 (Spring/Summer 1997): 1, 15-17.
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Current Projects:
Manhood and an Infertility Scare in Colonial Africa, in preparation.
A microhistorical biography, in which the trials and activities of a Belgian colonial agent, planter, and pharmacist will serve as a critical narrative thread. An analysis of colonial masculinities, reproductive anxieties, and knowledge production in a Congolese region where the violences of the rubber regime in Leopold’s Congo were followed by high rates of primary sterility.
Tales of the City: Gender, Health, and Knowledge in Accra, in prepartion.
Co-edited volume of ethnographic stories and essays authored by students of the University of Ghana and the University of Michigan, in preparation. Co-editors: Takyiwaa Manuh and Edith Tetteh.
“Are You Sure?: Seeking Health and Security in Accra.”
Documentary film project based on 40 hours of footage on therapeutic mixture collected in Accra in 2001, producer.
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