Associate Professor of History, Chair of Africana Studies

B.A. (1989) Coe College

M.A. (1993) University of Virginia

Ph.D. (1996) University of Virginia

 

kmutongi@williams.edu

Stetson b19

413.597.3351

 

Office Hours

Thursdays 11:30-2:00 and by appointment

 

Courses

HIST 103: The City in Africa: Accra, Nairobi, and Johannesburg

HIST 203: Sub-Saharan Africa since 1800

HIST 304: South Africa and Apartheid

HIST 308: Gender and Society in Modern Africa

HIST 402: African Political Thought

Narrating Africa, Narrating History, a winter study course

Research

East Africa, Urban History, and Transport History and Culture

 

Selected Publications
Books:

Worries of the Heart: Widows, Family, and Community in Kenya (University of Chicago Press, 2007)

Articles and Essays:

"The Bore Hole," University of Virginia Magazine, Winter 2007.

"Thugs or Entrepreneurs: Perceptions of Matatu Operators in Nairobi, 1970 to the Present," Africa, 76, 4 (2006).

“‘Worries of the Heart’: Widowed Mothers, Daughters, and Masculinities in Western Kenya, 1940-1960,” Journal of African History 40 (1999) REPRINTED in Andrea Cornwall (ed.) Readings in Gender in Africa. International African Institute Series. (Oxford, James Currey, 2005).

“‘Dear Dolly's Advice’: Representations of Youth, Courtship, and Sexualities in Africa, 1960-80” International Journal of African Historical Studies 33 (2000).