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Paul Landau Department of History |
Associate Professor PhD, Wisc., Madison 1991 History of southern Africa |
2115 Francis Scott Key
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
phone: 301-405-4291
fax: 301-314-9399
Email:plandau@umd.edu
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Professor Landau is an historian of culture and politics in southern Africa. His first book, The Realm of the Word: Language, Gender and Christianity in a Southern African Kingdom, was short-listed for the Herskovits prize for best work in African studies in 1995. He is co-editor and part author of Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa, a collection of essays about visual representations between Africans and Europeans. His recent work includes chapters for the Cambridge History of South Africa (on consciousness) and the Oxford History of the British Empire, "Companion Series" volume, "Missions and Empire." He is currently finishing his second book, "Mixed People: Popular Politics in the History of South Africa." He has written articles on medical practice, on imagery and evangelism, on narration and religious experience, and on the history of photography in Africa.
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