Osaak Amukambwa Olumwullah

Contact

• olumwuoa@muohio.edu
• Office: Room 268 Upham Hall, Oxford Campus
• 513-529-5139
• Office hours: W F 3-5

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

Recently taught courses

• HST 206 Introduction to Historical Inquiry
• BWS/HST 224 Africa to 1884
• BWS/HST 225 Making of Modern Africa
• HST 325 Images of Africa
• HST 400 Senior Capstone: Social Change in Africa

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.