Africa

United States of America

Professor Emerita of History

Columbia University, New York, New York

mw32@columbia.edu

Columbia University
505 Fayerweather Hall
1180 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, New York 10027 USA

South-Africa, Tanzania, Zambia

B.A. from Wellesley in 1957 and her Ph.D. from University of London in 1966.

Currently conducting research on the history of public health in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Taught history at Columbia University from 1966 to 2008.

Books:

Strategies of Slaves & Women: Life-Stories from East/Central Africa
(New York: Lillian Barber, 1993)

German Missions in Tanganyika, 1891-1941 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971)

Co-edited books:

With Margaret Jean Hay.
African Women and the Law: Historical Perspectives (Boston: Boston
University, 1982)

With Zena Stein & Jean Scandlyn.
Women's Health and Apartheid : the Health of Women and Children and the
Future of Progressive Primary Health Care in Southern Africa (New York:
Columbia University Press, 1988)

Articles and Book Chapters:

"Life and Technology in Everyday Life: Reflections on the Career of a
Master Smelter in Ufipa, Tanzania," Journal of African Cultural Studies,
15/1 (2002)

"An Old Nationalist in New Nationalist Times: Donald Siwale
and the State in Zambia: 1948-1963," Journal of Southern African Studies,
23/2 (1997)

"Maji Maji: Prophecy & Historiography," in Revealing Prophets:
Prophecy in Eastern African History, edited by David Anderson &
Douglas H. Johnson (London: James Currey, 1995)

"Autobiographies, histoires de vie et biographies de femmes africaines:
des textes militants," Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines, 28/109 (1988)

"Tambalika: Perspectives on a Colonial Magistrate in Central Africa,"
African Affairs, 85 (Jan 1986)

"Technology, Marriage and Women's Work in the History of Maize-Growers in
Mazabuka, Zambia: A Reconnaissance," Journal of Southern African Studies,
10 (Oct 1983)

African history ; public health ; KwaZulu-Natal ; East Africa ; Central Africa.