History
Dr Michael Brett
Emeritus Reader in the History of North Africa, SOAS, mb7@soas.ac.uk
- Mediaeval North Africa, Egypt and the Sudan, especially in the Fatimid period; history of Islam in Africa; the Maghrib from 1815.
- Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan
Professor William G Clarence-Smith
Professor of the Economic History of Asia and Africa, SOAS, wc2@soas.ac.uk
- Islam and slavery; trade diasporas in Indian Ocean; horse, mule and donkey raising and trade; tree crops (cocoa, coffee, oil palms, rubber)
- Asia and Africa
Dr Wayne Dooling
Lecturer in the History of Southern Africa, SOAS, wd2@soas.ac.uk
- Slavery and emancipation in the Cape Colony; early colonial South Africa
- South Africa
Professor David Killingray
Professor of Modern History, GC, d.killingray@gold.ac.uk
- Colonial Africa; Africa and the First and Second World Wars; colonial military and police; colonial social control; photographs as historical sources and the history of photography; the Black diaspora - Africans in Britain; the Caribbean in the 20th century.
- West Africa, Ghana
Dr Rebekah Lee
Lecturer in History, GC, r.lee|@gold.ac.uk
- Gender and urbanisation, Islam and Christianity in southern Africa, generational family histories, identity and the urban environment, settlement strategies, death and disease.
- Southern Africa, South Africa
Emeritus Professor Shula Marks
Professor in the History of Southern Africa, SOAS, shulamarks@yahoo.co.uk
- 'Family history', history of the Jews in South Africa. Southern Africa: social and economic history with special reference to the history of health and health care, women, race, class, ethnicity and nationalism; mainly late 19th and 20th centuries in South Africa; gender and sexuality.
- Southern Africa, South Africa
Professor Malyn Newitt
Professor of History in the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, King's College, malyn.newitt@kcl.ac.uk
- Main research interest is Portuguese colonial history and Indian Ocean history, with particular reference to Mozambique, Sao Tome and the Comores Islands.
- Recent publications include:
- History of Mozambique, 1995, (Hurst)
- Negotiating Justice, ed. with M Bennun, 1995, (Exeter U.P.)
Dr John Parker
Lecturer in African History, SOAS, jp23@soas.ac.uk
- Early modern and modern West African history.
- West Africa
Professor Richard Rathbone
Professor of the Modern History of Africa, SOAS, rr@soas.ac.uk
- Recent West African political history; the terminal phase of British rule in Africa; decolonisation of the Gold Coast; the history of nationalist politics in West Africa; the history of colonial and racial attitudes towards Africa; the history of African intelligentsia; slavery; legal history.
- West Africa, Ghana
Dr Richard Reid
Reader in the History of Africa, SOAS, rr15@soas.ac.uk
- Political and military change in eastern and northeastern Africa during the 19th and 20th centuries;
- Pre-colonial state and society;
- Modern liberation war and ideology;
- Attendant socio-political change in northeast Africa;
- Eritrea, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania
Dr Marie Rodet
Lecturer in the History of Africa, SOAS, mr28@soas.ac.uk
- Gender History;
- History of Slavery and Emancipation;
- Migration History;
- Legal History;
- Francophone West Africa; Senegal, Mali.
Dr Hilary Sapire
Lecturer in Imperial and Commonwealth History, BC, h.sapire@hist.bbk.ac.uk
- South Africa (19th and 20th centuries): urban social history; African politics; contemporary African urbanisation and informal settlement; lunatic asylums and the history of psychiatry in South Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- South Africa
Dr Sarah Stockwell
Lecturer in Imperial and Commonwealth History, KCL, sarah.stockwell@kcl.ac.uk
- Ending of colonialism; history of British business in West Africa; problems of financial devolution and establishment of indigenous banking systems; economic aspects of the transfer of power in Ghana during the 1940s/50s.
- West Africa, Ghana
