Heidi Gengenbach

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Assistant Professor
Affiliation	State University of New York, Buffalo
Email	gengenba@acsu.buffalo.edu
Mailing Address	Department of History 546 Park Hall State University of New York at Buffalo Buffalo, New York 14260 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: (716) 645-2181 x577 fax: (716) 645-5954
Countries of Specialization	Mozambique
Research Interests	African history: Mozambique/southern Africa, gender/women, agrarian social & cultural history, historical methodologies & historiography Comparative colonial history: race, sex and empire; women's life histories & autobiographies; politics of land use & landscapes Doctoral dissertation: "Where Women Make History: Pots, Tattoos, Stories, and Other Gendered Accounts of Community and Change in Magude District, Mozambique, c.1800 to the Present," University of Minnesota, 1999.
Publications	"'I'll Bury You in the Border!': Women's Land Struggles in Post-War Facazisse (Magude District), Mozambique," Journal of Southern African Studies 24, 1 (1998): 7-36. "'What My Heart Wanted': Gendered Stories of Early Colonial Encounters in Southern Mozambique," forthcoming in Susan Geiger, Jean Allman and Nakanyike Musisi (eds.), Women and African Colonial History (forthcoming, Indiana University Press). Women, Land and Resettlement in Magude District: A Field Study. Maputo: Norwegian Refugee Council, 1997, 162 pp. "Truth-Telling and the Politics of Women's Life History Research in Africa: A Reply to Kirk Hoppe," International Journal of African Historical Studies 27, 3 (1994): 619-27.
Keywords	colonialism ; race ; gender ; empire ; politics ; land tenure ; landscapes.