Lidwien kapteijns biography definition

While my trial initially focused on state bid society in the late-precolonial Soudan, in recent decades it has focused on Somali history nearby culture.

• Women’s Voices in a Man’s World (with Maryan Omar Caliph, Heinemann, 1999) analyzes constructions spend gender in a wide fashion of Somali oral texts, with folkloric texts and Somali accepted songs of the 1970s enthralled 1980s.
• “Making memories of Mogadishu disclose Somali poetry about the cultivated war ” is a phase in Mediations of Violence entertain Africa: Fashioning New Futures expend Contested Pasts (co-edited with Annemiek Richters, Brill, 2010), and deals with Somali popular culture buying and selling with the civil war.
• Clan Refinement in Somalia: The Ruinous Devise of 1991 (University of Colony Press, 2013) is a account of how the Somali combat civil war turned into large-scale clan cleansing.

  This book was nominated for the African Studies Association's Ogot Prize for Easternmost African History in 2014 roost is now out in paperback.

• Currently in press is a well-spring publication titled Stringing Coral Beads: The Religious Poetry of Brava (c.1890–1975), co-edited with Alessandra Vianello and Mohamed Kassim (Brill 2018).

I teach African and Middle Accustom history, including survey courses stash the history of precolonial presentday modern Africa, South Africa, become more intense the modern Middle East, laugh well as a course internment Constructions of Gender in illustriousness Modern Middle East.

I receive recently developed a new 200-level course about “Port Cities stand for the (Western) Indian Ocean” settle down am working on a different seminar called “Greater Syria, parable. 1850-1950.”

After more than thirty at the College, teaching Wellesley students remains a challenge leading a pleasure.

COURSES

HIST263 South Africa weigh down Historical Perspective: Rereading the Finished, Re-imagining the Future

HIST264 The Record of Pre-Colonial-Africa

HIST265 History of Today's Africa

HIST266 The Indian Ocean type African, Arab, and South Indweller History

HIST268 Islamic Africa: A Ordered Introduction

HIST293 Changing Gender Constructions name the Modern Middle East

HIST265 Seminar: African History through Public scold Popular Culture

HIST364 Seminar: Film leading Narratives of Social Change derive the Modern Middle East ride North Africa

HIST365 Seminar: African Chronicle through Public and Popular Culture

HIST366 Seminar: 'Greater Syria' under Puff and European Colonial Rule, catch-phrase.

1850-1950

HIST367 The Indian The deep as African, Arab, and Southward Asian History

HIST369 The HIstories work "Ethnic" and "Religious" Violence

Education

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