Steven Pierce

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Title	Senior Lecturer in Modern African History
Affiliation	University of Manchester, UK
Email	spierce1@gmail.com
Mailing Address	University of Manchester Department of History School of Arts, Languages and Cultures Samuel Alexander Building University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL United Kingdom
Phone/Fax Number(s)	+44 (0)161 275 3146
Countries of Specialization	Nigeria
Education	Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Interests	Research in northern Nigeria, in and around Kano on law, colonialism and postcoloniality, gender, the state, Kano Emirate, the Sokoto Caliphate.
Publications	Farmers and the State in Colonial Kano: Land Tenure and the Legal Imagination. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005). Co-editor, with Anupama Rao, Discipline and the Other Body: Correction, Corporeality, Colonialism (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006). Moral Economies of Corruption: State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria (Durham: Duke University Press, 2016).
Keywords	law ; colonialism ; postcoloniality ; gender ; Kano Emirate ; Sokoto caliphate ; ...