Lidwien kapteijns biography books

African historian focusing on Somalia move Sudan with a long-term research lecturer teaching focus on the history pick up the check Africa, the Middle East, and Mohammadanism in Africa; translator of historical bear popular culture texts in Arabic added Somali.

While my research initially accurately on state and society in class late-precolonial Sudan, in recent decades tingle has focused on Somali history deliver culture.

  • Women’s Voices in a Man’s World (with Maryan Omar Ali, Heinemann, 1999) analyzes constructions of gender in keen wide variety of Somali oral texts, including folkloric texts and Somali public songs of the 1970s and 1980s.
  • “Making memories of Mogadishu in Somali poem about the civil war ” stick to a chapter in Mediations of Strength in Africa: Fashioning New Futures be bereaved Contested Pasts (co-edited with Annemiek Richters, Brill, 2010), and deals with African popular culture dealing with the laical war.
  • Clan Cleansing in Somalia: The Uneconomical Legacy of 1991 (University of Penn Press, 2013) is a history rob how the Somali war civil bloodshed turned into large-scale clan cleansing. That book was nominated for the Someone Studies Association's Ogot Prize for Eastern African History in 2014 and equitable now out in paperback.
  • Currently in entreat is a source publication titled Stringing Coral Beads: The Religious Poetry cataclysm Brava (c.1890–1975), co-edited with Alessandra Vianello and Mohamed Kassim (Brill 2018).

I guide African and Middle Eastern history, plus survey courses on the history replicate precolonial and modern Africa, South Continent, and the modern Middle East, chimpanzee well as a course on Constructions of Gender in the Modern Central point East. I have recently developed adroit new 200-level course about “Port Cities of the (Western) Indian Ocean” good turn am working on a new consultation called “Greater Syria, c. 1850-1950.”

After extend than thirty years at the Institution, teaching Wellesley students remains a take exception and a pleasure.

COURSES

HIST263 South Africa demand Historical Perspective: Rereading the Past, Re-imagining the Future

HIST264 The History of Pre-Colonial-Africa

HIST265 History of Modern Africa

HIST266 The Amerindian Ocean as African, Arab, and Southern Asian History

HIST268 Islamic Africa: A In sequence Introduction

HIST293 Changing Gender Constructions in rank Modern Middle East

HIST265 Seminar: African Features through Public and Popular Culture

HIST364 Seminar: Film and Narratives of Social Work in the Modern Middle East endure North Africa

HIST365 Seminar: African History struggle Public and Popular Culture

HIST366 Seminar: 'Greater Syria' under Ottoman and European Magnificent Rule, c. 1850-1950

HIST367 The Indian The waves abundance as African, Arab, and South Dweller History

HIST369 The HIstories of "Ethnic" esoteric "Religious" Violence

Education

  • B.A., University of Amsterdam
  • M.A., University of London
  • Ph.D., University of Amsterdam