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Associate Professor
Associate Director, African Studies Center

• Affiliation(s)

  • Department of Afro-American and African Studies

• Fields of Study

  • Africa, particularly eastern Africa
  • history of literature and religion
  • intellectual culture
  • gender history
  • nationalism
  • ethnicity

• About

  Selected Publications:

  Pilgrims and Patriots: Conversion, Dissent, and the Social History of the East African Revival (Cambridge, forthcoming)

  Co-editor, with Giacomo Macola, Recasting the Past: History Writing and Political Work in Modern Africa (Ohio, 2009)

  Creative Writing: Translation, Bookkeeping, and the Work of Imagination in Colonial Kenya (Heinemann, 2004)

• Education

  • Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 2000