Thomas Spear

Region of Interest

Africa

Primary Country of Residence

United States of America

Title

Professor of History; Chair, Department of History

Affiliation

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Email

tspear@wisc.edu

Mailing Address

Department of History
University of Wisconsin-Madison
3211 Humanities
455 North Park Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53706 USA

Phone/Fax Number(s)

phone: 608-263-1807/1784 (office)
608-233-6867 (home)
fax: 608-263-5302

Countries of Specialization

Kenya

Research Interests

Precolonial history of eastern and southern Africa.

Publications

With Isaria Kimambo (eds.), Eastern African Expressions of Christianity.
Oxford: James Currey; Athens: Ohio; Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota,
forthcoming early 1999.

Mountain farmers: moral economies of land and agricultural development in
Arusha & Meru. (Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota ; Berkeley & Los Angeles:
University of California Press; Oxford: James Currey, 1997)

With Richard Waller (eds.) Being Maasai: ethnicity & identity in East
Africa. (London: James Currey; Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota; Nairobi:
EAEP; Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1993)

With Derek Nurse. The Swahili: reconstructing the history and language of
an African society, 800-1500. (Phildelphia: University of Pennyslvania
Press, 1985)

Kenya's past: an introduction to historical method in Africa. (London:
Longman Group, 1981)

The kaya complex: a history of the Mijikenda peoples of the Kenya coast to
1900. (Nairobi: Kenya Literature Bureau, 1978)

Keywords

Eastern Africa ; Southern Africa ; Kenya ; mountain farmers.