Africa

Germany

Assistant Professor for African History

Humboldt University, Berlin

heike.schmidt.1@rz.hu-berlin.de

Department of African Studies
Phil. Fak. III
Humboldt-University at Berlin
Unter den Linden 6
D-10099
Berlin
Germany

phone: 030-20936671/99
fax: 030-20936666

Zimbabwe

Historical anthropology, social history, and gender(ed) history of Eastern
and Southern Africa ; violence, memory, gender, power, theory and practice
of landscape ; methodological issues (oral history, personal narratives as
a genre).

Current research is on "Gender and Power: Political Authority in Rural Africa, 19th and 20th
Century".

'When There Is War'. Experiences and Memories of Political Violence in
Eastern Zimbabwe, 1850s to 1990s, (MS, in preparation).

African Modernities? Duration and Disjuncture, edited with Jan-Georg
Deutsch and Peter Probst, (James Currey and Heinemann, Oxford and
Portsmouth/NH, in preparation).

Afrika und das Andere - Alterität und Innovation, edited with Albert Wirz,
(Lit, Hamburg, 1998), 392pp.

'Wissensproduktion und die Frage nach dem Ort der Weltgeschichte.
Kommentare zu Steven Feierman', in: Harneit-Sievers, Axel (ed.),
Afrikanische Geschichte und Weltgeschichte. Regionale und globale Themen in
Forschung und Lehre, (Berlin, 2000), pp. 23-35.

'Neither War Nor Peace. Making Sense of Violence', in: Elwert, Georg,
Feuchtwang, Stephan and Neubert, Dieter (eds.), Dynamics of Violence,
Processes of Escalation and De-escalation in Violent Group Conflicts,
Supplement 1, special issue of Sociologus, (Berlin, 1999), pp. 211-225.

'Geschlechterverhöltnisse. Gegenstand und Methode', in: J.-G. Deutsch
und A. Wirz (eds.), Geschichte in Afrika. Einführung in Grundprobleme
und Debatten, (Arabisches Buch, Berlin, 1997), pp. 175-200. [textbook on
history in Africa]

'Healing the Wounds of War. Memories of Violence and the Making of History
in Zimbabwe's Most Recent Past', Journal of Southern African Studies,
23(1997)2, pp. 301-310.

social history ; gender ; power ; politics ; rural Africa