Osaak Amukambwa Olumwullah
Contact
Titles
- Associate Professor of History
- Affiliate of the Black World Studies Program
Education
- PhD 1995, Rice University
- MA, University of Nairobi
- BA, University of Nairobi
Teaching and Research Interests
- African history
- Environmental history
Current/recent graduate student research
- Phoebe Musandu, “Daughter of Odoro: Grace Onyango and African Women’s History,” 2006
Selected Publications
- Dis-ease in the Colonial State: Medicine, Society, and Social Change among the AbaNyole of Western Kenya, Greenwood Publishers, 2002
Work in Progress
Dr. Olumwullah has research and teaching interests in the areas of science in Africa, the historical intersections of the biological and social sciences, and health, healing, and the sociology of medical knowledge in Africa. His current book project is entitled The Contested River: Landscape, Culture, and Development in the Tana River Basin.
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