Rhiannon Stephens
Associate Professor, History, Columbia University
Rhiannon Stephens is an Associate Professor of History at Columbia University. She is the author of A History of African Motherhood: The Case of Uganda, 700-1900 (2013), which traces the social institution and ideology of motherhood across over a millennium of Ugandan political, economic and social change, and co-editor of Doing Conceptual History in Africa (2018), which critically examines what it means to write conceptual history on the continent. She specializes in the history of precolonial and early colonial East Africa from the late first millennium CE through the twentieth century. She is currently working a history of poverty and wealth as economic and social concepts in eastern Uganda over the past two thousand years.
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