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Giacomo Macola School of History Rutherford College University of Kent Canterbury EDUCATION 2009 PGCHE, UELT, University of Kent 2000 PhD in History, SOAS, University of London 1997 ‘Laurea in Storia’, University of Pisa, Italy (Laude) ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT April-May 2017 Visiting Professor, Department of Social and Institutional Sciences, University of Cagliari Oct. 2016- Reader in African History, University of Kent 2016 Visiting Associate Professor, International Studies Group, University of the Free State (Jan. – Sept.) 2014- Research Fellow, Centre for Africa Studies, University of the Free State 2012- Senior Lecturer in African History, University of Kent 2009-11 Researcher, Institute for History, Leiden University 2007-12 Lecturer in African History, University of Kent 2004-07 Smuts Research Fellow in African Studies, University of Cambridge 2001-02 Research Affiliate, History Department, University of Zambia TEACHING & SUPERVISION School of History, University of Kent (2007-2016): HI 360/426 ‘Making History’ (core course – Stage 1) HI 359 ‘Empire in Africa’ (Stage 1) HI 435 ‘A Global History of Empires, 1500-1850’ (Stage 1) HI 436 ‘A Global History of Empires, 1850-1960’ (Stage 1) HI 5031/2 ‘African History since 1800’ (Stages 2 and 3) HI 5086/6003 ‘Kingdoms of the Savanna: The Political History of Central Africa, c. 1700 to c. 1900’ (Special Subject – Stage 3) HI 878 ‘Methods and Interpretations in Historical Research’ (core course – MA in Modern History) HI834 ‘Themes and Controversies in Modern Imperial History’ (core course – MA in Imperial History) Postgraduate supervision: P. Nicholls, ‘The Seychelles Islands and Forced Migrations in the Indian Ocean in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries’ (PhD – AHRC/CHASE scholarship, 2014-17) J. Kegel, ‘A Military History of the Rwandan Civil War’ (PhD – AHRC/CHASE scholarship, 2015-18) J. Hogan, ‘The Ends of Slavery in Barotseland, Western Zambia’ (PhD – School of History’s Scholarship). Passed with no corrections, Nov. 2014. Examiners: Prof. William Gervase Clarence-Smith; Dr. Emily Manktelow J. Vincent, ‘The Nsapu-Nsapu in the History of the Congo Free State’ (MA Res). Passed with no corrections, Jan. 2016 J. Collins, ‘Africans, Arab-Swahili and Europeans in Nineteenth-Century Mweru-Tanganyika’ (MA Res). Passed with minor corrections, Jan. 2015. Examiner: Dr. Joanna Lewis P. Nicholls, ‘Meet the Maroons: Runaway Slaves of the Seychelles, 1768-1839’ (MA Res). Passed with no corrections, March 2014. Examiner: Prof. Robert Ross Faculty of History, University of Cambridge (2005-2006): Paper 25 ‘The History of Africa from 1800 to the Present Day’ ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES 2017 Chair of the teaching session – lecturer in Modern European History (1450- 1700) – HUM 0738 2016-17 Deputy Head, School of History, University of Kent (Sept. – April) 2015-16 Member of the Concessions Committee, School of History, University of Kent 2015- Convenor, MA in Imperial History, School of History, University of Kent (to be launched in Sept. 2016) 2015- Director, Centre for the History of Colonialism, School of History, University of Kent 2015- Appointed Supervisory Chair, University of Kent 2015 Member of the appointing committee – lectureship in imperial history 2014-15 Director of Graduate Studies – Taught Programmes (Spring Term) 2014-15 Member of the PG Scholarship Committee, School of History, University of Kent 2014-15 Member of the Leverhulme ECF Committee, School of History, University of Kent 2013-14 Director of Graduate Studies – Taught Programmes (Spring Term) 2013-14 Member of the PG Scholarship Committee, School of History, University of Kent 2012-2013 Member of the appointing committee – lectureship in British imperial history 2012-14 Library Coordinator, School of History, University of Kent PUBLICATIONS Monographs The Gun in Central Africa: A History of Technology and Politics (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2016). New African History series. Liberal Nationalism in Central Africa: A Biography of Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) The Kingdom of Kazembe: History and Politics in North-Eastern Zambia and Katanga to 1950 (Hamburg: LIT Verlag, 2002) Critical Editions The Occupation of Katanga: The Personal Correspondence of Clément Brasseur, 1893- 1897 (contracted to the British Academy’s Fontes Historiae Africanae series, published by Oxford University Press). Manuscript submission date: early 2017. R.M. Nabulyato (ed. G. Macola), African Realities: A Memoir (Lusaka: The Lembani Trust, 2008) Edited Books A Cultural History of Firearms in the Age of Empire (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013). With K. Jones and D. Welch. Living the End of Empire: Politics and Society in Late Colonial Zambia (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011). With J.-B. Gewald and M. Hinfelaar. Recasting the Past: History Writing and Political Work in Twentieth-Century Africa (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009). With D. Peterson. One Zambia, Many Histories: Towards a History of Post-Colonial Zambia (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008). With J.-B. Gewald and M. Hinfelaar. Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles ‘Debating “The Rediscovery of Liberalism” in Zambia: Responses to Harri Englund’, Africa, 84, 4 (2014), 658-667. With D.M. Gordon, B.J. Phiri and J. Ferguson. ‘Reassessing the Significance of Firearms in Central Africa: The Case of North-Western Zambia to the 1920s’, Journal of African History, 51, 3 (2010), 301-321 ‘The Origins, Context and Political Significance of the Mushala Rebellion against the Zambian One-Party State’, International Journal of African Historical Studies, 40, 3 (2007), 471-496. With M. Larmer. ‘“It Means as If We Are Excluded from the Good Freedom”: Thwarted Expectations of Independence in the Luapula Province of Zambia, 1964-1967’, Journal of African History, 47, 1 (2006), 43-56 ‘Imagining Village Life in Zambian Fiction’, Cambridge Anthropology, 25, 1 (2005), 1-10 ‘The Historian Who Would Be Chief: A Biography of Simon Jilundu Chibanza III (1899 – 1974)’, Journal of African History, 45, 1 (2004), 23-43 ‘Historical and Ethnographical Publications in the Vernaculars of Colonial Zambia: Missionary Contribution to the “Creation of Tribalism”’, Journal of Religion in Africa, 33, 4 (2003), 343-363 ‘The History of the Eastern Lunda Royal Capitals to 1900’, Azania, 36-37, 1 (2001), 31-45 ‘Literate Ethnohistory in Colonial Zambia: the Case of Ifikolwe Fyandi na Bantu Bandi’, History in Africa, 27 (2001), 187-201 ‘La Fine dell’Indipendenza del Regno Lunda del Luapula: il Mwata Kazembe X fra British South Africa Company e Plymouth Brethren (1890-1899)’, Africa (Rome), 53, 3 (1998), 338-366 Book Chapters ‘From Royalism to E-secessionism: Lozi Histories and Ethnic Politics from the Early Twentieth Century’, in D. Johnson and C. Davis (eds), The Book in Africa: Critical Debates (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). With Jack Hogan. ‘Introduction: New Perspectives on Firearms in the Age of Empire’, in K. Jones, G. Macola and D. Welch (eds), A Cultural History of Firearms in the Age of Empire (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013). With K. Jones and D. Welch ‘“They Disdain Firearms”: The Relationship between Guns and the Ngoni of Eastern Zambia’, in K. Jones, G. Macola and D. Welch (eds), A Cultural History of Firearms in the Age of Empire (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013) ‘Introduction: A New Take on Late Colonial Northern Rhodesia’, in J.-B. Gewald, M. Hinfelaar and G. Macola (eds), Living the End of Empire: Politics and Society in Late Colonial Zambia (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011). With J.-B. Gewald and M. Hinfelaar. ‘Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula and the Formation of ZANC/UNIP: A Reinterpretation, in J.- B. Gewald, M. Hinfelaar and G. Macola (eds), Living the End of Empire: Politics and Society in Late Colonial Zambia (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011) ‘Introduction: Homespun Historiography and the Academic Profession’, in D. Peterson and G. Macola (eds.), Recasting the Past: History Writing and Political Work in Twentieth-Century Africa (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009). With D. Peterson. ‘Imagining the Nation: Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula between Politics and Ethnic History’, in D. Peterson and G. Macola (eds.), Recasting the Past: History Writing and Political Work in Twentieth-Century Africa (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009) ‘Introduction’, in J.-B. Gewald, M. Hinfelaar and G. Macola (eds.), One Zambia, Many Histories: Towards a History of Post-Colonial Zambia (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008). With J.-B. Gewald and M. Hinfelaar. ‘Harry Nkumbula, UNIP and the Roots of Authoritarianism in Nationalist Zambia’, in J.-B. Gewald, M. Hinfelaar and G. Macola (eds.), One Zambia, Many Histories: Towards a History of Post-Colonial Zambia (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008) Book Reviews Review of K.M. Phiri et al (eds), Malawi in Crisis: The 1959/60 Nyasaland State of Emergency and Its Legacy (Zomba, Malawi: Kachere Series, 2012), Journal of African History (forthcoming) Review of M. Terretta, Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence: Nationalism, Grassfields Tradition, and State Building in Cameroon (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2014), American Historical Review, 119, 5 (2014), 1828-1829 Review of J. Parker and R. Reid (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), History Today, 64, 7 (2014), 63 Review of R.I. Rotberg, Africa Emerges (Cambridge: Polity, 2013), Journal of Southern African Studies, 40, 3 (2014), 647-648 Review of C. Prior, Exporting Empire: Africa, Colonial Officials and the Construction of the Imperial State, c. 1900-39 (Manchester: Manchester University