Paul Stuart Landau

Region of Interest

Africa

Primary Country of Residence

United States of America

Title

Associate Professor of History

Affiliation

University of Maryland, College Park

Email

pl84@umail.umd.edu

Mailing Address

Department of History
2153 Francis Scott Key Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland 20742-7315 USA

Phone/Fax Number(s)

phone: 301-405-4291
fax: 203-432-7587

Countries of Specialization

Botswana ; South Africa.

Research Interests

History of southern Africa, focusing on the social and cultural history
of Botswana and South Africa, and on visual images and colonialism more
generally.

Publications

Selected publications:

The Realm of the Word: Language, Gender and Christianity in a Southern
African Kingdom. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1995.

Co-editor, with Deborah D. Kaspin.
Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa.
Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2002 (September release).

"The Samuelites of South Africa: Colonialism and the Displacement of the
Self." Ms. in progress.

Keywords

social history ; cultural history ; missionaries ; religion ; colonialism ; Southern Africa.