Paul Ocobock Department of History University of Notre Dame 219 O’Shaughnessy Notre Dame, IN 46556 [email protected] office: (574) 631-2564 cell: (609) 933-7666

EDUCATION

2004-2010 Ph.D. History Princeton University Completed: August 2010 Dissertation: Coming of Age in a Colony: Youthhood, Lawlessness, and Colonial Authority in Kenya, 1898-1963 Advisors: Robert Tignor and Emmanuel Kreike Committee: Robert Tignor, Emmanuel Kreike, David Cannadine, and David Anderson Major Field: Colonial and Postcolonial Africa, Robert Tignor Minor Fields: Precolonial Africa and the Slave Trades, Emmanuel Kreike Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British Empire, Linda Colley

2002-2004 M.Phil. Economic and Social History Oxford University Dissertation: “A Species of Drudge”: Outcasting Nairobi Youth in Colonial Kenya, 1901-63 Advisor: David Anderson Fields: Colonial and Postcolonial Africa, Youth in History

1998-2002 B.A. Honors History University of Michigan Thesis: Restoring the African Pearl: NGO-State Relations in Uganda Advisor: David W. Cohen Fields: African History, Historical-Anthropology

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2011-Present Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Notre Dame 2010-2011 Visiting Fellow, The Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame

EDITED VOLUME (PEER REVIEWED)

2008 A.L. Beier and Paul Ocobock, Cast Out: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective (Athens: Ohio UP).

JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (PEER REVIEWED)

2008 Paul Ocobock, “Introduction: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective,” in Cast Out: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective, ed. A.L. Beier and Paul Ocobock (Athens: Ohio UP). 2008 Andrew Burton and Paul Ocobock, “’The Traveling Native’: Vagrancy and Colonial Control in British East Africa,” in Cast Out: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective, ed. A.L. Beier and Paul Ocobock (Athens: Ohio UP). 2006 Paul Ocobock, “Joy Rides for Juveniles: Vagrant Youth and Colonial Control in Nairobi, Kenya, 1901-1952,” Social History, 31.1 (February 2006): 39-59.

BOOK REVIEWS

2011 Andrew Burton and Helene Charton-Bigot, Generations Past: Youth in East African History (Athens: Ohio UP, 2010), for Journal of Modern African Studies, forthcoming. 2006 Andrew Burton, African Underclass: Urbanization, Crime & Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam 1919-61 (Oxford: James Currey, 2005), for Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute, 76.4 (2006): 606-7.

RESEARCH AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2009 American Historical Association, National History Center, International Seminar on Decolonization, Washington D.C. 2008 Research Affiliate, African Studies Centre, University of Nairobi 2007 Associate Member, African Studies Centre, Oxford University 2005 Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Dissertation Research Grant, Princeton University 2004 John R. Irwin Fellowship Fund, Princeton University 2003 African Studies Travel Award, Oxford University 2003 Anthony Kirk-Greene Travel Award, Oxford University

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED

2006 4th Annual New York Area Workshop on Africa co-organized with Professor Emmanuel Kreike, Princeton University, 3-4 Feb. 2005 Cast Out: A History of Vagrancy in Global Perspective, Princeton University, 11-12 Nov.

CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PAPERS PRESENTED

2008 Caning in Kenya: Juvenile Indiscipline, Parental Authority, and the Colonial State, African Studies Workshop, Chair: Tom Spear, Chicago, 14-17 Nov. 2008 Children of Mau Mau: Youth and State During the Kenya Emergency, 1952-60, African Studies Workshop, Chair: Emily Osborne, University of Chicago, 15 Jan. 2007 Children of Mau Mau: Youth and State During the Kenya Emergency, 1952-60, Graduate Dissertation Workshop, Chair: Timothy Parsons, University of Washington, St. Louis, 14 Dec. 2007 From Repatriation to Rehabilitation: Youth and Colonial Law and Order in Kenya, Youth and Africa Workshop, Chair: Terence Ranger, Oxford University, 17 May. 2006 Coming of Age in a Colony: Youth, Law, and Order in Colonial Kenya, African Studies Association Conference, Chair: Thomas McClendon, San Francisco, 16- 19 Nov. 2006 “The Traveling Native”: Vagrancy and Colonial Control in British East Africa, Social Science History Conference, Chair: A.L. Beier, Minneapolis, 2-5 Nov. 2005 Children of Mau Mau: Youth and State during the Kenya Emergency, 1952-60, African Studies Association Conference, Chair: Robert Tignor, Washington D.C., 17-21 Nov. 2004 Between Rehabilitation and Repatriation: Juvenile Vagrancy, Colonial Control and Kenya’s Emergency, 1945-63, Townlife in Modern Africa Workshop, Chair: John Lonsdale, Trinity College, Cambridge, 13 March. 2004 “Joy Rides for Juveniles:” Outcast Youth and Colonial Control in Nairobi, Kenya, 1901-45, Symposium on Law, Colonialism and Children in Africa, Chair: Richard Roberts, Stanford University, 1 May 1. 2004 “A Species of Drudge:” Juvenile Vagrancy, Colonial Control and Urban Order in Kenya, 1902-52, African Studies Association Conference, New Orleans, Chair: Jan-Georg Deutsch, 11-14 Nov.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

2011 Chair, Africa Working Group, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2011 HIST 30050, African History to 1800 (Introductory Course) 2011 HIST 13184, Anatomy of An African Rebellion (First Year Seminar) 2011 HIST 30060, Modern Africa (Introductory Course)

FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE: ARCHIVAL RESEARCH

Kenya Research conducted over a period of eight months Kenya National Archive, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta Memory Library Archive, Nairobi UK Research conducted over a period of six months British National Archives, London Rhodes House Library Archive, Oxford School of Oriental and African Studies Archive, London London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Archive, London Salvation Army Archive, London US Research conducted over a period of three months National Archive and Records Administration, Washington D.C. Library of Congress Archive, Washington D.C. Melville Herskovits Library Archive, Evanston, Illinois Church Missionary Society Archive, Princeton, New Jersey

FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE: INTERVIEWS

Kenya 83 life histories conducted over eight months Central Province: Nairobi, Kiambu, and Nyeri Districts Coast Province: Mombasa District Nyanza Province: Kisumu, Siaya, and Homa Bay Districts Rift Valley Province: Gilgil, Kericho, and Sotik Districts