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Dr Hannah Whittaker
Senior Lecturer in Modern African History

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Summary

I am an historian of modern Africa. My research is mainly focused on issues relating to colonialism, borders, development and conflict, particularly in eastern Africa. 

Before joining Politics and History at Brunel in September 2013, I taught History at SOAS. I completed my PhD in African History at SOAS in 2011.

Qualifications

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

PhD African History from SOAS, University of London

MA Imperial History from Durham University

BA (hons) History from the LSE

Responsibility

2023-present Co-lead of the Brunel African Studies Research Group

2021-present Co-Senior Tutor for the Department of Social and Political Sciences

2020-2021 Deputy Senior Tutor for Politics and History and Co-Chair of the Crossing Borders Research Cluster in the Centre for Global Lives

2019-2020 Student Experience Leader for History

2017-2020 Member of University Senate

2017-2018 Director of Postgraduate Research for Politics and History

Newest selected publications

Dornan, I. and Whittaker, H. (2024) 'Unleashing the Lion's Roar: A Grass-Roots Counter-Campaign and the Memorialisation of the 'Glorious' British Empire'. Radical History Review, 0 (accepted, in press). ISSN: 0163-6545 Open Access Link

Journal article

Whittaker, H. (2024) 'Terje Østebø. Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia: The Bale Insurgency, 1963–1970.'. The American Historical Review, 129 (1). pp. 356 - 357. ISSN: 0002-8762

Journal article

Whittaker, H. (2022) 'East Africa after liberation: conflict, security and the state since the 1980s'. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 60 (3). pp. 329 - 331. ISSN: 0306-3631

Journal article

Whittaker, H. (2020) 'We Do Not Have Borders: Greater Somalia and the Predicaments of Belonging in Kenya by Keren Weitzberg: Athens, Ohio University Press, 2017; pp. xiv +274. $80.00 hardback; $32.95 paper'. Northeast African Studies, 20 (1-2). pp. 185 - 188. ISSN: 0740-9133 Open Access Link

Journal article

Whittaker, H. (2020) 'Youth on the margins: criminalizing Kenya's pastoral frontier, c. 1930-present'. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 14 (4). pp. 763 - 779. ISSN: 1753-1055 Open Access Link

Journal article
More publications(19)

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