Professor Thaddeus Sunseri Clark B-346 970-491-6260 Thaddeus.Sunseri@colostate.edu

Education:

Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1993
M.A. University of Oregon, 1984
M.A. (German) University of Northern Iowa, 1982
B.A. University of Northern Iowa, 1980

Specializing in Africa

 

Current Research Interests:

A history of cattle trade and cattle diseases
in East Africa.

 

Teaches the following courses:

HIST171: World History since 1500
HIST380: African Environmental History
HIST420: Precolonial Africa
HIST421: Colonial Africa
HIST422: Modern Africa
HIST423: South African History
HIST530: Graduate Readings in African History

Major Publications:

• Books:
• Wielding the Ax: Scientific Forestry and Social Conflict in Tanzania, c. 1820-2000 (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press: Series in Ecology and
History, 2009).
• Vilimani: Labor Migration and Rural Change in Early Colonial Tanzania, 1884-1915 (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Social History of Africa Series, 2002).
  
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  Refereed Articles and Book Chapters:
• "Forestry and Social Engineering in the Miombo Woodlands of Southeastern Tanganyika," in Nature and the British Empire, ed. Vinita Damodaran, Kate Showers and Rohan D'Souza (forthcoming, Oxford University Press).
• "The War of the Hunters: Maji Maji and the Decline of the Ivory Trade," in Rethinking the Maji Maji War, ed. Jamie Monson, James Giblin, and Yusufu Lawi (forthcoming, Brill Press, Leiden).
• "'Every African a Nationalist': Scientific Forestry and Forest Nationalism in Colonial Tanzania," Comparative Studies in Society and History 49, 4 (2007), 883-913.
• "The Political Ecology of the Copal Trade in the Tanzanian Coastal Hinterland, c. 1820-1905," Journal of African History 48, 1 (2007), 201-220.
• "Fueling the City: Dar es Salaam and the Evolution of Colonial Forestry, 1892-1960," in Dar es Salaam: Histories from an Emerging East African Metropolis, ed. James R. Brennan, Andrew Burton and Yusufu Lawi (East Lansing: Michigan State University and Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota, 2007), 79-96.
• "Forestry and the German Imperial Imagination: Conflict over Forest Use in German East Africa," in Germany's Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History, ed. Thomas Zeller and Thomas Lekan (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005), 81-107.
• "'Something Else to Burn': Forest Squatters, Conservationists and the State in Modern Tanzania," Journal of Modern African Studies 43, 4 (2005), 609-640.
• "Working in the Mangroves and Beyond: Scientific Forestry and the Labour Question in Early Colonial Tanzania," Environment and History 11, 4 (2005), 365-94.
• "Gender History and the Nationalist Historiographical Tradition in Tanzania," in Rethinking African History from Women's/Gender Perspectives. Japan Center for Area Studies Symposium Series 20, ed. Chizuko Tominaga (Osaka: Japan Center for Area Studies/National Museum of Ethnology, 2004), 147-63.
• "Reinterpreting a Colonial Rebellion: Forestry and Social Control in German East Africa, 1874-1915," Environmental History 8, 3 (2003), 430-51.
• "The Baumwollfrage: Cotton Colonialism in German East Africa," Central European History 34, 1 (2001), 31-51.
• "Statist Narratives and Maji Maji Ellipses," International Journal of African Historical Studies 33, 3 (2000), 567-84.
• "Majimaji and the Millennium: Abrahamic Sources and the Creation of a Tanzanian Resistance Tradition," History in Africa: A Journal of Method, 26 (1999), 365-78.
• "'Dispersing the Fields': Railway Labor and Rural Change in Early Colonial Tanzania," Canadian Journal of African Studies, 32, 3 (1998), 558-83.
• "Famine and Wild Pigs: Gender Struggles and the Outbreak of the Maji Maji War in Uzaramo (Tanzania)," Journal of African History, 38, 2 (1997), 235-59.
• "Labor Migration in Colonial Tanzania and the Hegemony of South African Historiography," African Affairs, 95, 381 (1996), 581-98.
• "Peasants and the Struggle for Labor in Cotton Regimes of the Rufiji Basin (Tanzania), 1890- 1920," in Allen Isaacman and Richard Roberts (eds.), Cotton, Colonialism and Social History in Sub-Saharan Africa, (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1995), 180-99.
• "Slave Ransoming in German East Africa, 1884-1922," International Journal of African Historical Studies 26, 3, (1993), 481-509.

 

Fellowships/Major Grants:

• DAAD Research Grant, Germany, Fall 2006
• Fulbright Grant, University of Zimbabwe, 1996