Africa

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Jordanna Bailkin
Professor
Jere L. Bacharach Endowed Professor in International Studies
Raymond Jonas
Professor
Jon Bridgman Endowed Professor in History
Stephanie Smallwood
Associate Professor
Dio Richardson Endowed Professor
Joint Appointment: Department of Comparative History of Ideas
Lynn M. Thomas
Professor
Giovanni and Amne Costigan Endowed Professor in History
Christopher Tounsel
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Director, African Studies Program

Latest News

The Historical Review at UW Publishes First Volume of Undergraduate Student Research (June 23, 2021)
"Safari Nation" Book Talk From Historian Jacob Dlamini (November 13, 2020)
6th Annual Stephanie Camp Memorial Lecture given by Professor Sharla Fett (June 2, 2020)
UW History Professors Investigate Global Histories of Health in New Books (May 13, 2020)
History Students and Faculty Team Up with Local Communities for the Horn of Africa Initiative (November 18, 2019)

Related Research

"A Tale of Two Divestments: South Africa, Sudan, and Howard University" African Studies Review 67, no. 3 (2024): 590-609.
Christopher Tounsel, Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024).
Letteney, Mark, and Matthew D. C. Larsen. 2021. “A Roman Military Prison at Lambaesis.” Studies in Late Antiquity 5 (1): 65–102.
Shaw, Brent D., and Mark Letteney. 2021. “Iunius Saturninus: A New African Centenarian.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 220:306–10.
Christopher Tounsel, Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan (Durham: Duke University Press, 2021)
“Kitchen Window Feminism: Sarah Macnaughtan, Wartime Care, and the Authority of Experience in the South African and First World Wars,” in “Health, Healing, and Caring,” special issue, Gender & History 33, no. 3 (Oct. 2021).
Christopher Tounsel, "Negro Canaan: Tuskegee, Cotton, and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan" Journal of African American History Vol. 105, no. 1 (February 2020): 28-55.
Christopher Tounsel, “Lord Come to Our Aid”: Islamisation, Civil War, and the Pastoral Letters of the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference’ Journal of Religious History Vol. 44, no. 2 (June 2020: Christianity and Politics in 20th-Century Africa, ed. J.J. Carney): 168-186.
Thomas, Lynn M. Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.
Christopher Tounsel, “Render to Caesar: Missionary Thought and the Sudanese State, 1946-1964" Social Sciences and Missions Vol. 31, Iss. 3-4 (2018): 341-374.

Africa

Jordanna Bailkin

Raymond Jonas

Stephanie Smallwood

Lynn M. Thomas

Christopher Tounsel