l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Associate Professor of History

University of Maryland, College Park

pl84@umail.umd.edu

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

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

Botswana ; South Africa.

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

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.

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