David McBeath Anderson - Stellenbosch University



David McBeath Anderson

BA (Sussex), MA (Oxon), Phd (Cantab), FRHistS

Current position

Title: Professor of African History, University of Warwick

Office: Global History & Culture Centre, Department of History, University of Warwick,

Humanities Building, University Road, Coventry CV4 7AL

Tel: +44 (0)2476 150991 email: d.m.anderson@warwick.ac.uk

Career record

2016-21 Visiting International Faculty Professor, University of Cologne

2013- Professor of African History, University of Warwick

2009-10 Director, British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi

2006-12 Professor in African Politics, University of Oxford

2005-09 Director, African Studies Centre, University of Oxford

2005-12 Fellow, St Cross College, Oxford

2005-06 Visiting Stewart Fellow in the Humanities, Princeton University

2002-06 University Lecturer in African Politics, University of Oxford

2002-05 Research Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford

2002-03 Evans-Pritchard Visiting Lecturer, All Souls College, Oxford

1998-2002 Director, Centre of African Studies, University of London

1994 Visiting Fellow in African History, University of Cape Town

1991-2002 Senior Lecturer in History, SOAS, University of London

1990-91 Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow

1984-91 Lecturer in Imperial & Commonwealth History, Birkbeck College, London

1983-84 Research Fellow in History, New Hall [Murray Edwards College], Cambridge

1982-83 Rouse-Ball Scholar (Postdoctoral), Trinity College, Cambridge

82. Research Associate, History Department, University of Nairobi

1978-82 Ph.D. in History, Trinity College, University of Cambridge

1975-78 B.A. in History (First Class), University of Sussex

Major research grants (since 2003)

2016-2018 AHRC, ‘Standing for Public Office – Kenya-Mexico comparison’ (£190,000)

2016-2019 Leverhulme Research Network, ‘Understanding insurgencies: resonances from

the colonial past,’ 7-institute international research consortia (£171,000)

2013-2017 European 7th Framework Programme, Marie Curie ITN Award, ‘Resilience in

African Environments & Landscapes (REAL)’, with Prof Paul Lane et al

(Euro 3.9 million)

2013-2016 ESRC Seminar Series, Network Award, ‘British Policy in Africa since Labour’,

with Dr Danielle Beswick et al (£26,597)

2012-2015 Research Council of Norway: ‘The Dynamics of State Failure and Violence:

South Sudan and eastern Africa’, with Dr Oystein Rolandsen & Prof William

Reno (NOK 8.6 million)

2011-2014 AHRC Research Grant: ‘Empire Loyalists: Histories of Rebellion and

Collaboration in the British Empire’, with Prof Daniel Branch (£286,948)

2011-2013 Leverhulme Programme Grant, ‘Diasporas’: ‘Historical ethnography of Nairobi’s

Little Mogadishu’, with Dr Neil Carrier (£168,132)

2011-2012 Christensen Fund, ‘The Omo Basin and Lake Turkana Hydrology’ (US$90,000)

2007-2010 AHRC Programme Grant, ‘Environment & Landscape’: ‘History and development in the Omo Valley, SW Ethiopia’ (£504,492)

2006-2008 AHRC Research Grant: ‘Trauma and personhood in late colonial Kenya’, with Dr Sloan Mahone (£110,450)

2003-2005 ESRC Programme Grant, ‘Cultures of Consumption’: ‘Khat nexus: transnational

consumption in a global economy’ (£189,335)

Publications

BOOKS

In preparation

• Anderson, David M. White Noise: British Justice and the Mau Mau Insurgency 1952-60. (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, submission October 2017).

• Anderson, David M and Daniel Branch. Empire Loyalists: Histories of Rebellion and Collaboration 1770-1990. (Oxford University Press: Oxford, submission June 2017).

2017

• Anderson, David M. and Jonathan Fisher. Africa’s New Authoritarians: Aid, Securitization and Statebuilding. (Hurst: London; Oxford University Press: New York: in press).

• Anderson, David M., From Resistance to Rebellion in Colonial Kenya, 1895-1963 (London: Routledge, in press).

• Anderson, David M. and Daniel Branch (eds), Allies at the End of Empire: Loyalists, Nationalists and the Cold War, 1945-1976 (London: Routledge).

• Anderson, David M. and Michael Bollig (eds), Resilience and Collapse in African Savannahs: Causes and Consequences of Environmental Change in Eastern Africa (London: Routledge).

2015

• Anderson, David M. and Oystein H. Rolandsen (eds), Politics and Violence in Eastern Africa: The Struggles of Emerging States (Routledge: London, 2015).

2013

• Cheeseman, Nic, David M. Anderson and Andrea Scheibler (eds), The Routledge Handbook of African Politics (Routledge: London, 2013).

2007

• Anderson, David M., Susan Beckerleg, Degol Hailu, & Axel Klein, The Khat Controversy: Stimulating the Debate on Drugs (Berg: Oxford, 2007). Short-listed for the Herskovits Prize.

2005

• Anderson, David M., Histories of the Hanged: Britain’s Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire (W.W. Norton, New York; Weidenfeld & Nicolson: London, 2005).

2002

• Anderson, David M., Eroding the Commons: Politics of Ecology in Baringo, Kenya, 1890-1963 (James Currey, Oxford; Ohio UP, Athens OH, 2002).

• Weeks, John, David M. Anderson and Christopher Cramer, Supporting Ownership: Swedish Development Cooperation with Kenya, Tanzania & Uganda, 2 vols (SIDA: Stockholm, 2002).

• Anderson, David M. and Vigdis Broch-Due (eds), The Poor Are Not Us: Poverty & Pastoralism in Eastern Africa. (James Currey, Oxford; Ohio UP, Athens, 2002).

1999

• Anderson, David M. and Richard Rathbone (eds), Africa's Urban Past (James Currey, Oxford; Heinemann, Portsmouth NH, 1999).

1998

• Anderson, David M., Maasai: People of Cattle (Little Wisdom Library. Labyrinth, London; Chronicle Books, New York, 1998).

• Anderson, David M. and Douglas H. Johnson (eds), Revealing Prophets: Prophecy & History in Eastern Africa (James Currey, London; Ohio UP, Athens OH, 1998).

1992

• Anderson, David M. and David Killingray (eds), Policing & Decolonisation: Nationalism, Politics & the Police, 1917-1965 (Manchester University Press: Manchester, 1992).

1991

• Anderson, David M. and David Killingray (eds), Policing the Empire: Government, Authority & Control, 1830-1940 (Manchester University Press: Manchester, 1991).

1988

• Johnson, Douglas H. and David M. Anderson (eds), Ecology of Survival: Case Studies from Northeast African History (Westview Press, Boulder CO, 1988).

1987

• Anderson, David M. and Richard Grove (eds), Conservation in Africa: People, Policies & Practice (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1987).

JOURNAL ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS

In preparation

• Anderson, David M. and Maxmillian Chuhila, ‘Coming down the mountain: migrant farmers and transhumant herders in Kilimanjaro and Baringo since 1900’, International Journal of African Historical Studies, submission September 2017.

• Anderson, David M. and Tim Clack, ‘In aid of terror: assessing the effectiveness of al-Shabaab’s propaganda’, Journal of Conflict Studies, submission July 2017.

• Anderson, David M. ‘Environment, identity and the Iloikop Wars in nineteenth century east Africa’, Journal of African History, submission by July 2017.

• Anderson, David M. ‘The Kenya conundrum: UK defence policy in eastern Africa’, in Danielle Beswick (ed), Britain’s Africa Policy since 1997 (Bloomsbury Press: London, submission April 2017).

• Anderson, David M. ‘Kenya at War’, in Nic Cheeseman, Gabrielle Lynch and Karuti Kanyinga (eds), The Politics of Kenya (Oxford University Press: Oxford, submission March 2017).

In peer review

• Anderson, David M. ‘The cutting: female genital mutilation in Kenya’s colonial history.’ English Historical Review, in peer review, 3 September 2016.

In press

• Anderson, David M. and Julianne Weis. ‘The prosecution of rape in wartime: evidence from Kenya’s Mau Mau rebellion, 1952-60.’ Law & History Review, in press.

2017

• Anderson, David M. “Mau Mau on trial: Dedan Kimathi’s prosecution and Kenya’s colonial justice.” In Julie MacArthur (ed), The Trial of Dedan Kimathi: Kenyan Nationalism and the Mau Mau Rebellion, 177-205 (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2017).

• Anderson, David M. “Making the loyalist bargain: surrender, amnesty, and impunity in Kenya’s decolonization, 1952-63.” International History Review 39, i (2017): 48-70.

• Anderson, David M. and Daniel Branch. “Allies at the end of empire: loyalists, nationalists and the Cold War, 1945-76.” International History Review 39, i (2017): 1-13.

2016

• Anderson, David M. and Paul J. Lane. ‘The unburied victims of Kenya’s Mau Mau rebellion: where and when does violence end?’ In Jean-Marc Dreyfus & Elisabeth Anstett (eds), Human Remains in Society: Curation and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Genocide and Mass Violence, 14-37 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016).

• Anderson, David M. ‘The beginning of time? Evidence for catastrophic drought in Baringo in the early nineteenth century.’ Journal of Eastern African Studies 10, i (2016): 39-61.

• Anderson, David M. and Michael Bollig. ‘Resilience and collapse: histories, ecologies, conflicts and identities in the Baringo-Bogoria basin, Kenya.’ Journal of Eastern African Studies 10, i (2016): 1-20.

• Anderson, David M. and Jonathan Fisher. ‘Authoritarianism and the Securitization of Development in Uganda’. In Tobias Hagmann & Filip Reyntjens (eds), Aid and Authoritarianism in Africa: Development without Democracy, 65-86. (London: Zed Books; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016).

2015

• Anderson, David M. ‘Guilty secrets: deceit, denial, and the discovery of Kenya’s “Migrated Archives.”’ History Workshop Journal 80, ii (Autumn 2015): 142-60.

• Anderson, David M. and Jacob McKnight. ‘Understanding al-Shabaab: clans, Islam, and insurgency in Kenya.’ Journal of Eastern African Studies 9, iii (2015): 536-57.

• Anderson, David M. and Oystein H. Rolandsen ‘Violence in the contemporary political history of eastern Africa.’ International Journal of African Historical Studies 48, i (2015): 1-12.

• Fisher, Jonathan and David M. Anderson. ‘Authoritarianism and the securitization of development in Africa.’ International Affairs 91, i (2015): 131-152.

• Anderson, David M. and Jacob McKnight. ‘Kenya at war: al-Shabaab and its enemies in eastern Africa.’ African Affairs 114, 454 (2015): 1-27.

2014

• Anderson, David M. ‘Remembering Wagalla: state violence in northern Kenya, 1962-1991.’ Journal of Eastern African Studies 8, iv (2014): 658-76.

• Anderson, David M. and Oystein H. Rolandsen. ‘Violence as politics in eastern Africa, 1940-90: legacy, agency, contingency.’ Journal of Eastern African Studies 8, iv (2014): 539-57.

• Anderson, David M. ‘Exit from empire: counter-insurgency and decolonization in Kenya, 1952-63.’ In Timothy Clack and Robert Johnson (eds), At the End of Military Intervention: Historical, Theoretical and Applied Solutions to Transition, Handover and Withdrawal, 107-36. (Changing Character of War Series, OUP: Oxford, 2014).

• Anderson, David M. Why Mpeketoni Matters: Al-Shabaab and Violence in Kenya. Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre, NOREF Report: Oslo, August 2014.

2013

• Anderson, David M. ‘La violence par procuration: les Britanniques dans la guerra Mau Mau du Kenya.’ In Amaury Lorin et Christelle Taraud (dir.), Histoire des colonisations européennes (XIXe-XXe siècles): sociétés, cultures, politiques 172-93 (Presses universitaires de France, coll. ‘Le Noeud gordien’: Paris, 2013).

• Lynch, Gabrielle and David M. Anderson. ‘Democratization and ethnic violence in Kenya: electoral cycles and shifting identities.’ In J. Bertrand & O. Haklai (eds), Democratization and Ethnic Minorities: Conflict or Compromise?, 83-102. (Routledge: London, 2013).

• Anderson, David M. and Nic Cheeseman. ‘An Introduction to African Politics.’ In Nic Cheeseman, David M. Anderson and Andrea Scheibler (eds), The Routledge Handbook on African Politics, 1-13. (Routledge: London, 2013).

2012

• Anderson, David M. ‘British abuse and torture in Kenya’s counter-insurgency, 1952-60.’ Small Wars & Insurgencies 23, 4/5 (2012): 700-719.

• Anderson, David M., Hannah Elliott, Hassan Hussein Kochore & Emma Lochery. ‘Camel herders, middlewomen, and urban milk bars: the commodification of camel milk in Kenya.’ Journal of Eastern African Studies 6, iii (2012): 383-404.

• Anderson, David M. ‘Clan identity and Islamic identity in Somalia.’ CEADS 2 (March 2012): 2-37.

2011

• Anderson, David M. ‘Mau Mau in the High Court and the ‘lost’ British empire archives: colonial conspiracy, or bureaucratic bungle?’ Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History 39, v (2011): 699-716

• Anderson, David M. and Adrian Browne. ‘The politics of oil in eastern Africa.’ Journal of Eastern African Studies 5, ii (2011): 369-412

• Anderson, David M. ‘Punishment, race and ‘the raw native’: settler society and Kenya’s flogging scandals, 1895-1930.’ Journal of Southern African Studies 37, iii (2011): 479-498

• Anderson, David M. and Neil Carrier. ‘Khat in the UK: social harms and legislation.’ Home Office Research Report (July 2011): 39pp.

2010

• Anderson, David M. ‘Sexual threat and settler society: black perils in Kenya, c.1907-1930.’ Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History 38, i (2010): 47-74.

• Anderson, David M. ‘The new piracy: the local context.’ Survival 52 i (2010): 44-50.

• Anderson, David M. ‘Majimboism: the troubled history of an idea.’ In Daniel Branch, Nic Cheeseman & Leigh Gardner (eds), Our Turn to Eat! Politics in Kenya since 1950, 17-43 (Lit Verlag: Berlin, 2010).

• Anderson, David M. ‘The Kenyan cattle trade and the economics of empire, 1914-1948.’ In Karen Brown & Dan Gilfoyle (eds), Healing the Herds: Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine, 250-68 (Ohio UP: Athens OH, 2010).

2009

• Anderson, David M. and Neil Carrier. ‘Khat in colonial Kenya: a history of prohibition and control.’ Journal of African History 50 iii (2009): 377-98

• Anderson, David M. ‘Somali piracy: historical context, political contingency’, Working Paper 34, Centre for European Policy Studies (December 2009): 14pp.

2008

• Anderson, David M. and Emma Lochery. ‘Violence and exodus in Kenya’s Rift Valley: predictable and preventable?’ Journal of Eastern African Studies, 2.ii (2008): 328-43

2006

• Anderson, David M., Huw Bennett & Dan Branch. ‘A very British massacre.’ History Today (August 2006): 22-24.

• Anderson, David M. and Neil Carrier. ‘Flowers of Paradise, or Polluting the Nation? Contested narratives of khat consumption.’ In J Brewer & F Trentmann (eds), Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges, 145-66 (Berg: Oxford, 2006).

• Anderson, David M. ‘Surrogates of the state: collaboration and atrocity in Kenya’s Mau Mau War.’ In George Kassimeris (ed), The Barbarisation of Warfare, 172-88 (Hurst: London, 2006).

2005

• Anderson, David M. ‘Burying the bones of the past.’ History Today (February, 2005): 2-3

• Anderson, David M. ‘“Yours in struggle for majimbo”: nationalism and the party politics of decolonisation in Kenya, 1955 to 1964.’ Journal of Contemporary History, 39 (July 2005): 547-64

2004

• Anderson, David M. ‘Massacre at Ribo Post: expansion and expediency on the colonial frontier in East Africa.’ International Journal of African Historical Studies, 35 (2004): 33-54.

• Anderson, David M. ‘Registration and rough justice: labour law in Kenya, 1895-1939.’ In P Craven & D Hay (eds), Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955, 498-529 (North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, 2004).

2003

• Anderson, David M. ‘Le declin et la chute de la KANU: la recomposition des parties politiques dans la succession de Moi (Kenya).’ Politique africaine, no.90 (June 2003): 37-55

• Anderson, David M. and Herve Maupeu. ‘Kenya, la succession de Moi.’ Politique africaine, no.90 (June 2003): 5-16

• Anderson, David M. ‘Kenya’s elections 2002 – the dawning of a new era?’ African Affairs, 102 (2003): 331-42

• Anderson, David M. ‘Mau Mau at the movies: contemporary representations of an anti-colonial war.’ South African Historical Journal, 48 (May 2003): 33-51

2002

• Anderson, David M. ‘Vigilantes, violence and the politics of public order in Kenya.’ African Affairs, 101 (2002): 531-55.

• Anderson, David M. ‘The battle of Dandora swamp: reconstructing Mau Mau’s Land & Freedom Army.’ In E.S. Atieno Odhiambo & John Lonsdale (eds), Mau Mau and Nationhood: Arms, Authority and Memory, 155-77 (James Currey: Oxford, 2002).

• Anderson, David M. ‘Rehabilitation, resettlement and restocking: ideology and practice in pastoralist development.' In David M. Anderson & Vigdis Broch-Due (eds), The Poor Are Not Us: Poverty and Pastoralism in Eastern Africa, 201-19 (James Currey: Oxford, 2002).

• Anderson, David M. and Vigdis Broch-Due, ‘Poverty and the pastoralist: deconstructing myths, reconstructing realities.’ In David M. Anderson & V. Broch-Due (eds), The Poor Are Not Us: Poverty and Pastoralism in Eastern Africa, 1-23 (James Currey: Oxford, 2002).

2001

• Anderson, David M. ‘Corruption at City Hall: African housing and urban development in colonial Nairobi.’ Azania, 36/37 (2001): 138-54. [Reprinted in Andrew Burton (ed), The Urban Experience in Eastern Africa c.1750-2000 (BIEA: Nairobi, 2002): 138-54]

2000

• Anderson, David M. ‘Master & servant in colonial Kenya, 1895-1939.’ Journal of African History, 41 iii (2000): 435-70

1999

• Anderson, David M. and Richard Rathbone. ‘Urban Africa: histories in the making.’ In David M. Anderson & Richard Rathbone (eds), Africa's Urban Past, 1-17 (James Currey: Oxford, 1999).

1996

• Anderson, David M. ‘History of Africa’ and ‘Twentieth Century Africa’, The Oxfam Literacy Guide to Good Reading (Helicon Publishing: Oxford, 1996).

• Anderson, David M. ‘Visions of the vanquished: prophecy and colonialism in Kenya’s Western Highlands.’ In David M Anderson & Douglas H. Johnson (eds.), Revealing Prophets: Prophecy and History in Eastern Africa, 164-95 (James Currey: London, 1996).

• Anderson, David M. ‘East Africa, 20th Century.’ In Mary Beth Norton (ed), American Historical Association Guide to Historical Literature, 590-95 (OUP: New York, 1996).

• Anderson, David M. and Douglas H. Johnson. ‘Revealing Prophets.’ In David M. Anderson & Douglas H. Johnson (eds.), Revealing Prophets: Prophecy and History in Eastern Africa, 1-27 (James Currey: London, 1996).

1995

• Anderson, David M. and Rosemary Seton. ‘Archives & manuscript collections relating to Africa held at SOAS.’ History in Africa, 22 (1995): 45-60

1994

• Anderson, David M. ‘Policing the settler state: Kenya, 1900-52.’ In Dagmar Engels & Shula Marks (eds.), Contesting Colonial Hegemony: State & Society in Africa & India, 248-66 (Academic Press: London, 1994).

1993

• Anderson, David M. ‘Black mischief: crime, protest and resistance in Kenya's Western Highlands, 1890s-1963.’ The Historical Journal, 36 (1993): 851-77

• Anderson, David M. ‘Transitions between cultivation and pastoralism: comment on East African examples.’ Current Anthropology, 34, iv (1993): 372-73

• Anderson, David M. ‘Cow power: livestock and pastoralism in Africa.' African Affairs, 92 (1993): 121-33

• Anderson, David M. ‘Crisis of capitalism and Kenya’s social history.’ African Affairs, 92 (1993): 285-90

1992

• Anderson, David M. ‘Policing and communal conflict: the Cyprus Emergency, 1954-60.' In David M. Anderson & David Killingray (eds.), Policing & Decolonisation: Nationalism, Politics & the Police, 187-217 (Manchester UP: Manchester, 1992). [Reprinted in Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History, 21 (1993): 177-207; and in Georgina Sinclair (ed), Globalising British Policing, 78-98. (Ashgate: London, 2011)].

• Anderson, David M. and David Killingray. ‘An orderly retreat? Policing the end of Empire.' In David M. Anderson & David Killingray (eds.), Policing & Decolonisation: Nationalism, Politics & the Police, 1-21 (Manchester UP: Manchester, 1992).

1991

• Anderson, David M. and Douglas H. Johnson. ‘Diviners, seers & spirits in East Africa: toward an historical anthropology.' Africa, 61 (1991): 293-8.

• Anderson, David M. ‘Policing, prosecution & the law in colonial Kenya, 1905-39.' In David M. Anderson & David Killingray (eds.), Policing the Empire: Government, Authority & Control, 1830-1940, 183-200 (Manchester UP; Manchester, 1991).

• Anderson, David M. and David Killingray. ‘Consent, coercion & control: policing the Empire, 1830-1940.' In David M. Anderson & David Killingray (eds.), Policing the Empire: Government, Authority & Control, 1830-1940, 1-15 (Manchester UP; Manchester, 1991).

1989

• Anderson, David M. ‘Agriculture & irrigation at Lake Baringo in the 19th century.' Azania, 24 (1989): 85-98.

• Anderson, David M. and David Throup. ‘Agrarian economy of Central Province, Kenya, 1918-39.' In Ian Brown (ed.), The Economies of Africa & Asia in Inter-War Depression, 8-28 (Routledge: London, 1989. Reissued 2014).

• Anderson, David M. ‘Cultivating pastoralists: economy & ecology among Il Chamus of Baringo, 1840-1980.' In David M. Anderson & Douglas H. Johnson (eds), Ecology of Survival: Case Studies from Northeast African History, 241-60 (Lester Crook & Westview: London and Boulder CO, 1989).

• Anderson, David M. and Douglas H. Johnson. ‘Ecology & society in Northeast African history.' In David M. Anderson & Douglas H. Johnson (eds.), Ecology of Survival: Case Studies from Northeast African History, 1-24 (Lester Crook & Westview Press: London and Boulder CO, 1989).

• Anderson, David M. and Andrew Millington. ‘Political ecology of soil conservation in Anglo-phone Africa.' In A.C. Millington, A. Binns & S. Mutiso (eds.), African Resources: Appraisal, Monitoring & Management, 48-59 (Reading Geographical Papers Series, 1989).

1988

• Adams, William M. and David M. Anderson. ‘Irrigation before development: indigenous & induced change in agricultural water management in East Africa.' African Affairs, 87 (1988): 519-35 [reprinted in RM Saleth (ed), Water Resources and Economic Development (Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 2001)]

1987

• Anderson, David M. ‘Managing the forest: conservation history of Lembus, Kenya, 1900-63.' In David Anderson & Richard Grove (eds), Conservation in Africa: People, Policies & Practice, 249-68 (Cambridge UP, 1987).

• Anderson, David M. and Richard Grove. ‘Scramble for Eden: past, present & future in African conservation.' In David M. Anderson & Richard Grove (eds), Conservation in Africa: People, Policies & Practice, 1-12 (CUP: Cambridge, 1987). [Reprinted in Michael Redclift & Graham Woodgate (eds), The Sociology of the Environment (E. Elgar: Cheltenham, 1994).

1986

• Anderson, David M. ‘Stock theft & moral economy in colonial Kenya.' Africa, 56 (1986): 399-416

1985

• Anderson, David M. and David Throup. ‘Africans & agricultural production in colonial Kenya: the myth of the war as a watershed.' Journal of African History, 26 (1985): 327-45

1984

• Anderson, David M. ‘Depression, dust bowl, demography & drought: the colonial state and soil conservation in East Africa during the 1930s.’ African Affairs, 83 (1984): 321-43. [Reprinted in Greg Maddox (ed), Colonial Epoch in Africa: Colonialism & Nationalism, vol 2, 209-32 (Garland: New York, 1993)].

• Anderson, David M. ‘The 19th century history of Il Chamus of Baringo.’ Mila, Bulletin of the Institute of African Studies (Nairobi), no.7 (1984): 107-25.

Publications - print journalism

• ‘Atoning for the sins of Empire’, New York Times, 13 June 2013 (reprinted: International Herald Tribune, 14 June 2013; Daily News (Sri Lanka), 15 June 2013)

• ‘Civil war comes to Syria’, Ciajing (Beijing, China), 23 December 2011 (in Mandarin)

• ‘Yemen’s winter of discontent’, Ciajing (Beijing, China), 17 October 2011 (in Mandarin)

• ‘The fight for Libya’s oil’, Global Times (Hong Kong, China), 13 September 2011, p14

• ‘Egypt’s slow coup: Mubarak caged and a nation on trial’, Ciajing (Beijing, China), 15 August 2011(in Mandarin), pp34-36

• ‘Comment & Debate: It’s not just Kenya’, The Guardian, 26 July 2011, p27

• ‘Comment: Mau Mau in the High Court’, The Times, 22 July 2011, p5

• ‘Britain’s dark secrets in Kenya’, The Times, 7 April 2011, p13.

• ‘Obama: they fought for Britain, then turned to rebellion’, The Times, 3 Dec 2008, p8

• ‘Election fever – the causes of Kenya’s trauma’, Prospect Magazine On-Line, 5 January 2008

• ‘Kenya’s agony’, Royal Africa Society On-Line Forum, 7 January 2008

• ‘An innocent abroad? Tutu in a Kenyan spin’, Business Day (Joh’burg), 9 January 2008

• ‘A warning from Kenya’, Prospect Magazine, February 2008, pp15-17

• ‘How violence infected Kenya’s democracy’, The Independent, 30 January 2008, p33

• ‘Atrocity factor’, New Statesman, 17 July 2006

• ‘The Chuka massacre’, Sunday Nation (Nairobi), Lifestyle Magazine, 16 July 2006, pp1-4

• ‘Kenya. 1950s: an uncanny foretaste of the Iraq war’, The Sunday Times, 2 January 2005

• ‘Mugabe is right about land reform’, The Independent, 4 May 2000

• ‘War crimes and Mau Mau’, The Guardian 1999

• ‘Massacre by machete’, Daily Mail 1999

• ‘Biafra – the war Britain wants to forget’, The Independent 1999

• ‘America searches in the dark for bombing culprits’, The Observer, 9 August 1998

• ‘New dangers out of Africa’, Time Magazine, 24 August 1998

• ‘Death of the African dream’, The Independent, 27 August 1998

Publications - journal editing

2017 International History Review 39, i (2017). Special Issue, ‘Allies at the end of empire: loyalists, nationalists and the Cold War.’ Guest Editors, David M. Anderson and Daniel Branch.

2016 Journal of Eastern African Studies 10, ii (2016). Special Issue, ‘Resilience and Collapse in African Savannahs: Causes and Consequences of Environmental Change in Eastern Africa.’ Guest Editors, David M. Anderson and Michael Bollig.

2014 Journal of Eastern African Studies 8, iv (2014). Special Issue, ‘Politics and Violence in

Eastern Africa: The Struggles of Emerging States, 1940-1990,’ Guest Editors, David M. Anderson and Oystein H. Rolandsen.

2007-2011 Founding editor, Journal of Eastern African Studies (Routledge)

2003 Politique africaine, no.3 (2003), Special issue, ‘Kenya and the Moi Succession,’ Guest Editors, David M. Anderson and Herve Maupeu

1988-1998 Co-editor, Journal of African History (Cambridge University Press)

1991 Africa 61, iii (1991), Special Issue, ‘Diviners, Seers and Spirits in Eastern Africa,’ Guest Editors, David M. Anderson and Douglas H. Johnson.

Academic appointments and distinctions

2015 Teaching Excellence Award Nomination, University of Warwick

2014 Impact and Public Engagement Award, Arts Faculty, University of Warwick

2014-16 Steering Group, “A Global History of Modern Humanitarian Action”,

Humanitarian Policy Group, Overseas Development Institute, London.

2013-2017 Executive Steering Committee and Supervisory Board, REAL Project, European

7th Framework Programme Award (ITN Marie Curie, European Union)

2012-15 Editorial Advisory Board, Law & History Review

2012-13 Research Council of Norway, Evaluation Panel, NORGLOBAL Programme

2012 Polish Academy of Sciences, Grant Evaluation Panel

2012- Chairman, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Eastern African Studies

2009-10 National Council for Research Collaboration, Switzerland, Grant Assessor

2009- Association of Commonwealth Universities, Scholarship Panel

2009-11 Advisory Board, Oxford-Princeton Global Fellowship Programme

2007-08 Natural History Museum, ‘New Research Initiatives’ Advisory Group

2007 Teaching Excellence Award, University of Oxford

2007 National Museums of Kenya, Advisor on Historical Galleries Development

2006-11 International Collaborator, Canadian SSRC Programme for ‘Ethnicity and

Democratic Governance’

2005-06 Visiting Stewart Fellow in the Humanities, Princeton University

2005-09 Member of Africa Panel, International Relations Committee, British Academy

2004-05 Member of British Academy Working Party on ‘Relations with African

Universities’ (International Relations Committee)

2003-05 Trustee of the International Records Management Trust, London

2002-10 Elected member of Council, Royal Africa Society

2002-12 Senior Associate Member, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford

2002 Elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHS)

2002-08 Member of Editorial Advisory Board, African Affairs

2002-08 Publications Officer, British Institute in Eastern Africa

2000-01 Acting Chair, Fontes Historiae Africanae, British Academy

2000-09 Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Azania

2000-02 Treasurer, British Institute in Eastern Africa

1998-01 Nominated Member, Executive Council of The Royal Africa Society

1997- General Editor, African Studies Series, Cambridge University Press

1998-2002 Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of African History

1995-2003 Member of Committee, Fontes Historiae Africanae, British Academy

1993-2000 Hon. Secretary, British Institute in Eastern Africa

1993 External Academic Auditor, University of Sussex

1992-2010 Member of Governing Council, British Institute in Eastern Africa

1990-93 Member of Council, African Studies Association United Kingdom

1987-93 Member of Publications Committee, International Africa Institute, London

1984-87 Steering Committee, British Documents on the End of Empire Project

Academic administration

2014- Director of Graduate Studies, History Department, University of Warwick

2013-15 Deputy Head, History Department, University of Warwick

2011-12 Chief Examiner, PPE Degree Panel, University of Oxford

2011-12 Co-ordinating Committee, Oxford Diasporas Programme (Leverhulme)

2009-10 Acting Director, British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi

09. Director, African Studies Centre, Oxford

09. Graduate Studies Committee, Dept of Politics & International Relations, Oxford

10. Admissions Tutor & Convenor, MSc African Studies, University of Oxford

2004-08 Chair, ORISHA Scholarship Committee, University of Oxford

2005-09 Graduate Committee, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Oxford

2005-09 Research Committee, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Oxford

2000-2002 Member, Academic Initiatives Fund Committee, SOAS

1999-2002 Chair, CWM-SOAS Endowment Fund Committee

1999-2001 Member, SOAS Research Committee

1998-2001 Chairperson, Africa Business Group, University of London

1998-2001 Director, Centre of African Studies, University of London

1997-2001 Member, SOAS Planning Committee (nominated from Academic Board)

1994-2002 Chair, SOAS Archives sub-Committee

1993-95 Member, SOAS Publications Committee

1992-2001 Member, SOAS Library Committee

1992-98 Member, SOAS Postgraduate Studies sub-Committee

1991-96 Convenor & Examinations Chair, MA in African/Asian History, SOAS

1986-89 Convenor, MA in Imperial History, Birkbeck College, London

Teaching experience

(a) Undergraduate courses

History – Warwick: Politics & Society in Africa since 1830

Africa and the Cold War

Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion, 1952-60

Making of the Modern World

Empire and Aftermath

Making History

Historiography

SOAS: Research Methods in History

Africa and Asia since 1800

Africa since 1800

Pre-colonial African History

Peoples, Tribes, Nations - Identity in Africa

Resistance and Rebellion in Eastern Africa

Imperialism in the Twentieth Century

Birkbeck: History of the British Empire

The Rise of the Modern State

Politics - Oxford: Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa

(b) Graduate courses

History - Research Methods in African & Asian History

History and Development in Eastern Africa

Violence and Historical Memory in Eastern Africa

History of the British Empire, since 1870

Violence and Empires, 1500-2000

Politics - Politics and History in East & Central Africa

Afr Stds - Researching Africa: Methodology, Ethics and Practice in African Research

Themes in History & Social Sciences for Africa

(c) Doctoral supervision - theses completed (46), listed by discipline

History (25)

• Maxmillian Chuhila ‘Coming down the mountain: the environmental history of the Kilimanjaro lowlands, Tanzania, since 1919’ (Warwick, 2016)

Lecturer in History, University of Dar es Salaam

• George Roberts ‘The Cold War in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1960-1978’ (Warwick, 2016)

Teaching Fellow in History, University of Warwick

• Jacob Wiebel ‘The Red Terror: Violence in Ethiopia, 1977-79’ (St Cross, Oxford, 2014)

Lecturer in African History, University of Durham

• Aidan Russell ‘Politics on the border: Burundi, 1945-1970’ (St Cross, Oxford, 2012)

Lecturer in International History, Graduate Institute, Geneva & Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge

• Radoslav Yordanov ‘Soviet policy in the Horn of Africa, 1949 to 1979’ (St Peter’s, Oxford, 2012)

Research Fellow in Cold War History at the Woodrow Wilson Centre, Washington DC

• Leigh Gardner ‘Ruling by contract: taxation and the state in Kenya and Northern Rhodesia, 1895-1963’ (Jesus, Oxford, 2009).

Lecturer in Economic History, London School of Economics

• Daniel Branch ‘Loyalists & the Mau Mau Rebellion, 1952-60’ (St Peter’s, Oxford, 2005).

Professor in Modern African History, Warwick University

• Francesca Locatelli ‘City & empire: social history of Asmara, 1882-1941’ (SOAS, 2004).

Formerly Lecturer in African History, University of Edinburgh

• Matteo Rizzo ‘Groundnut Scheme Revisited: Development in Mtwara-Lindi District, Tanzania, since the 1940s’ (SOAS, 2004)

Lecturer in Economics of Africa, SOAS London

• Linda Beer Kumwenda ‘Missionaries & medicine in N. Rhodesia, 1890s-1960s’ (SOAS, 2004)

• Sada Reddi ‘The political economy of colonial Mauritius, 1890-1948’ (SOAS, 2004).

Formerly Senior Lecturer in History, University of Mauritius (retired)

• Jose Arturo Casco Saavedra ‘Swahili poetry as historical source: utenzi, war poems and German colonialism, c.1880s to 1910’ (SOAS, 2002)

Senior Lecturer in Swahili Studies, University of Mexico City

• Gail Beuschel ‘Shutting Africans Away: Lunacy, race & law in Kenya, 1910-63’ (SOAS, 2001)

• David Hyde, ‘Plantation struggles in Kenya: trade unionism on the land, 1945-65’ (SOAS, 2001)

Lecturer in World History & Development Studies, East London University

• Chloe Campbell ‘Eugenics, Race and Empire: the Kenya casebook’ (SOAS, 2000)

Formerly Lecturer in History, Sheffield Hallam University

• Joyce Kannan ‘Gender, generation & bridewealth in Kenya: Murang’a, 1900-52’ (SOAS, 2000)

Assistant Professor in African History, University of Missouri

• Andrew Burton ‘Wahuni! Crime & disorder in colonial Dar es Salaam, 1919-60’ (SOAS,2000)

Formerly Assistant Director, BIEA, Nairobi

• Hamidin b. Hamid ‘Unfinished business: Kenya’s Coastal Lands, 1907-39’ (SOAS, 2000)

Director of African Studies and Lecturer in African History, University of Malaya

• Michael Jennings ‘Surrogates of the state: NGO’s and Tanzania’s villagization’ (SOAS, 1998)

Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, SOAS London

• Ondine Barrow ‘Charity, relief & development: Aid in Ethiopia, 1960-90’ (SOAS, 1997)

Formerly Research Fellow in History of Medicine, University of Oxford

• Nese Ozden ‘British policy, Constantinople and the Nationalists 1920-1922’ (SOAS, 1997)

Professor of Modern History, Ankara University, Turkey

• Grace Carswell ‘Farmers, sustainability & rural development: agricultural change in Kigezi, south-western Uganda, 1930-60’ (SOAS, 1996)

Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Sussex

• Jeremy Silvester ‘Land & farm labour in southern Namibia, 1919-61’ (SOAS, 1993)

Lecturer in History, University of Namibia, Windhoek

• Vijaya Teelock ‘Bitter Sugar: Mauritian slavery & emancipation 1815-42’ (SOAS, 1993)

Senior Lecturer in History, University of Mauritius

• Christopher Hammond ‘The Policing of the Palestine Mandate, 1919-35’ (Birkbeck, 1991)

Politics (17)

• Patrycja Stys ‘Refugee resistance to repatriation in the Great Lakes Region’ (Nuffield, Oxford 2015)

Research Fellow, Political Studies, University of Edinburgh

• Kate Brennan ‘The World Bank & health policies, Ethiopia’ (Queens College, Oxford, 2014)

• Christopher Mahony ‘International courts and prosecutions in Africa’ (Keble, Oxford 2014)

Deputy Director, Centre for Global Human Rights, University of Auckland

• Zoe Marks ‘Rebel groups & their materiality: the RUF in Sierra Leone’ (St Cross, Oxford 2013)

Chancellor’s Fellow & Lecturer in Politics, University of Edinburgh

• Lydiah Bosire ‘Judicial statecraft in Kenya and Uganda: explaining transitional justice choices in the age of the International Criminal Court’ (New College, Oxford 2012)

• Aleksandra Gadzala ‘China and Ethiopia; The politics of economic relations in the new global order’ (University College, Oxford 2012)

• Erlend Krogstad ‘Enduring challenges of state-building: British-led police reforms in Sierra Leone, 1945-61 and 1998-2007’ (St Antony’s, Oxford, 2012)

• Lillian Cherotich ‘Corruption in Kenya: the anatomy of the Goldenburg Scandal’ (St Antony’s, Oxford 2012)

• Jonathan Fisher ‘Museveni and Uganda’s international relations’ (St Antony’s, Oxford, 2011)

Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, University of Birmingham

• Jaideep Gupte ‘Urban civil violence, extra-legality and informality: policing south-central Mumbai’ (St Antony’s, Oxford, 2010)

Research Fellow, Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex

• Christine Cheng ‘Extra-legal groups & reconstruction in Liberia’ (Nuffield, Oxford, 2010)

Lecturer in International Relations, King’s College London

• Yvonne Malan ‘The spectre of justice: the problematic legacy of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission’ (New College, Oxford, 2008)

• Gernot Klantschnig ‘Crime, drugs & the state: Nigeria’ (St Antony’s, Oxford 2007)

Lecturer in International Politics, University of Liverpool

• Gabrielle Lynch ‘Kenyan politics and the ethnic factor: the Kalenjin’ (Balliol, Oxford, 2007)

Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics, Warwick University

• Nicholas Cheeseman ‘Institutions and the one-party state in Zambia and Kenya’ (Nuffield, Oxford, 2006)

Professor in African Politics, University of Birmingham

• Katherine Rogers ‘Manufacturing consensus: Civil society & liberalisation in Kenya 1990-2002’ (Queen’s, Oxford, 2006)

• Philip Clark, ‘Gacaca courts, reconciliation & justice in Rwanda’ (Balliol, Oxford, 2005)

Reader in Comparative Politics, SOAS London

Development Studies/Anthropology (4)

• Michelle Osborn ‘Legitimacy and authority in Kibera, Nairobi’ (Exeter College, Oxford 2012)

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, North Georgia University

• Susan Lautze ‘Militarized livelihoods in Uganda’ (Hertford, Oxford, 2010)

Director of Social Research, FAO, Rome.

• Anna Lindley ‘Dynamics & effects of migrants’ remittances: the Somali case’ (St John’s, Oxford, 2007)

Lecturer in Development Studies, SOAS London

• Christina Clark ‘Beyond borders: political marginalization and Congolese youth in Uganda’ (St Cross, Oxford, 2006)

Assistant Professor in Development Studies, University of Toronto

(d) Doctoral supervision - theses in progress (4) (at 1 October 2016)

History – 3 theses (Bruzzone, Velasco Reyes, Tierney)

Politics – 1 thesis (Beardsworth)

(e) Post-doctoral mentoring (since 2004)

2009-11 Dr Iain Walker, ESRC Research Fellow (Anthropology)

2009-11 Dr Kathryn Nwajiaku, ESRC Research Fellow (Politics)

2009-10 Dr Omar McDoom, ESRC Post-doctoral Fellow (Politics)

2005-06 Dr Kathryn Nwajiaku, ESRC Post-doctoral Fellow (Politics)

06. Dr Neil Carrier, ESRC Post-doctoral Fellow (African Studies)

2005-07 Dr Ike Okonta, Leverhulme Research Fellow (Politics)

2004-07 Dr Kate Meagher, British Academy Post-doctoral Fellow (African Studies)

External examining

2005-08 External Examiner, MA African Studies, University of Edinburgh

2004-07 External Examiner, MA Imperial & Post-Colonial Studies, Birkbeck College

2003-05 External Examiner, MPhil Development Studies, University of Oxford

2001-05 External Examiner, History (BA) Faculty Board, University of Stirling

Doctoral examinations in History: Theses examined for the following universities:

UK: University of Cambridge; University of Sussex; University of Oxford; King’s

College London; SOAS London; Institute of Commonwealth Studies London; Birkbeck

College London; University College London; London School of Economics; Durham

University; University of Edinburgh; University of Stirling; Queens University, Belfast;

University of East Anglia; University of Warwick;

International: Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland); University of Oslo (Norway); University

of Bergen (Norway); Nordic Agricultural University, Aas (Norway); Stockholm University (Sweden); Uppsala University (Sweden); Roskilde University (Denmark); Cologne University (Germany); European University Institute, Florence (Italy); Princeton University (USA); Dalhousie University (Canada); University of Cape Town (South Africa); University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa); University of KwaZulu Natal (South Africa); University of Mauritius; Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand); Otago University (New Zealand); Massey University (New Zealand).

Public engagement – advisory and consultancy roles

2016- Advisory Panel, Keele World Affairs

2013-2015 Advisory Board member, JLT World Risk Review (consultancy role)

2012 Nominated member of Home Office ‘Working Party on Khat in the UK’, to

report to the Home Office Advisory Committee on the Misuse of Drugs

(ACMD). Co-author of final report (delivery October 2012).

2011 Briefings for MoD, on ‘exit strategies’ and the relevance of historical cases

2011 Consultant for Canadian Defence Academy, on Somali militias and insurgency

in East Africa

2011 Briefings for MoD staff deployed to East Africa (Farnham Castle)

2010-11 Advisor, Programme for African Social & Governance Research (PASGR),

DfID (UK)

2009 Advisor, Horn & East Africa, Africa Centre for Security Studies (AFRICOM)

2009-10 Principal Investigator, ‘’Khat and social harms in the UK’, Home Office

Research Study (UK)

2008-10 Consultant, ‘Politics & Governance Training Programmes’, DfID (UK)

2008 Principal Investigator, ‘Parliamentary corruption in Africa’, IDRC (Canada)

2006 Consultant, ‘Measuring Aid Impact’, SIDA (Sweden)

2005-present Africa Editor, Oxford Analytica (consultancy role)

2002 Lead Consultant, ‘Ownership in East Africa’, SIDA (Sweden)

2001 Team Leader, ‘Drug trafficking in Africa’, UNODC, Vienna (UN)

• Advisory consultations with governmental organisations (since 2008):

DFID Nairobi (Conflict and Governance Groups), FCO Nairobi, FCO Research Analysts (London), MoD Nairobi, USA State Department (Washington), Norwegian Foreign Ministry (Oslo), European Union (Nairobi and AU Addis Ababa delegations), AFRICOM (Stuttgart), UNDP (Nairobi).

• Advisory consultations with non-governmental organisations (since 2008):

Medicines sans Frontiers (Brussels); Human Rights Watch (New York and London), KHRC (Nairobi), Club of Madrid, International Crisis Group (Nairobi), Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels).

• Recent commentaries on broadcast media (since 2008) :

BBC Television News, BBC World News, BBC World Service Radio, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Scotland, ITN News, Al Jazeera News, CNN, Sky News, Radio Francais International, China International Radio, PBS USA, Canadian Broadcasting Company, Deutsche Welle, Austria Radio, Radio New Zealand, South African Broadcasting Corporation, Kenya Broadcast Company, Kenya Television News, and numerous local radio stations in eastern Africa and the USA.

• Interviews for print media (since October 2010):

The Times; The Financial Times; The Independent; The Independent on Sunday; The New York Times; Salon (USA); IWPR Netherlands; Business Daily (Oslo); Correio Braziliense; Global Times (China); Ciajing Magazine (China); The Nation (Nairobi); The East African (Nairobi); The Sunday Nation (Nairobi); The Guardian; Newsweek (USA); Time Magazine (USA); Reuters; Bloomberg; New Humanist; Time Out;

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