History Department (including Archaeology Unit):
(April 2006)
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Prof. A.M.Kanduza, Associate Professor in History and Head of Department Dip. Ed.(Kabwe),BA Ed & MA (Zambia), PhD. (Dalhousie), PDI Law (Zambia)
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Behavioural change and HIV/AIDS; Swaziland socio-economic change since 1931 & South Africa's economic hegemony since 1965.
Prof. P.T. Mgadla, Associate Professor in History
A.T.C (Francistown), BA+CCE (UBS), MA & PhD (Boston).
TEACHING AREAS: Southern African history; history of education
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Political, educational and mission history in southern Africa with special reference to Botswana.
Prof. Q. N. Parsons, BA (London), Dip. African Studies & PhD (Edinburgh) (Home page)
Professor of History
TEACHING AREAS: North American history; cinema history; military history
RESEARCH INTERESTS: 19th-20th century Botswana history & biography; Victorian & Edwardian Britain; African diaspora entertainers; history of popular entertainment.
Prof. B.T. Mokopakgosi, Associate Professor in History
BA+C.D.E. (UBS), M.A.(Johns Hopkins) Ph.D.(SOAS)
TEACHING AREAS: European and World history; history of Namibia
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Mining and labour Issues in southern Africa, with special reference to Namibia.
Dr B.S. Bennett, Senior Lecturer in History (Home page)
MA (Canterbury), PhD (Cambridge)
TEACHING AREAS: European history; Commonwealth history; history of religion
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Modern British politics; religious history; colonial Botswana; New Zealand; the British empire.
Dr. R.K.K. Molefi, Lecturer in History
BA (UB), MA & PhD (Dalhousie)
TEACHING AREAS: Research methods; environmental history
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Medical history of Botswana, especially epidemics and nutrition; southern African sports history; eastern African ecology
Dr. W.G Morapedi, Lecturer in History
BA, PGDE (UB) MA & PhD. (Essex)
TEACHING AREAS: Central African history; Latin American history; agrarian history
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Comparative agrarian and peasant studies in Africa and Latin America, with special reference to Botswana and Mexico.
Dr. M.M. Bolaane, Lecturer in History
DSE, BEd, (UB) MA (SOAS, London), DPhil (Oxford)
TEACHING AREAS: East African history; environmental history
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Pastoralism and development in eastern Africa; colonial policies and land use in East Africa; Gender studies and education.
Mr. G.B. Barei, Lecturer in History
BA, PGDE (UB), MA & MPhil (SOAS, London)
TEACHING AREAS: North African history; labour history
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Political history of Botswana and contemporary chieftainship in Botswana; nationalism and Islam in North Africa; labour movements in Algeria and Tunisia.
Dr. C.J. Makgala, Lecturer in History (Home page)
BA, PGDE (UB), MPhil & PhD (Cambridge)
TEACHING AREAS: African diaspora history; administrative history
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Indirect rule & public opinion, race & tribal relations, democracy & partisan politics, intra-political elite conflict in Botswana; NAMPAADD, refugees & illegal immigrants in Botswana & South Africa; witchcraft and magic;
Mr. G.B. Gumbo, Lecturer in History
BA, PGDE,MA (UB)
TEACHING AREAS: Economic history; tourism studies
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Peasantry in Botswana especially and Third World in general, history of tourism, and modern world economic concerns.
Dr. A.K. Segobye, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology
BA & PGDE (Botswana), MPhil & PhD (Cambridge)
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Farming communities in Southern Africa; settlement patters & land use in prehistoric Botswana; Archaeology & public education
Dr. A. Tsheboeng, BA (UB), MA (York), PhD (London) Lecturer in Archaeology
TEACHING AREAS: Heritage Resource Management, Quantitative techniques & Geoarchaeology
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Late farming communities human responses and contribution to environmental change in the Shashe-Limpopo basin & Heritage tourism.
Ms. C. Mooketsi, BA & PGDE (UB), MPhil (Bergen) Lecturer in Archaeology
TEACHING AREAS: Stone Age; faunal analysis
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioarchaeology, palaeo-faunal record of Botswana and Southern Africa.
Mr P.C. Thebe, BA (UB, Gaborone) M.A. (UT, Austin), Lecturer in Archaeology
TEACHING AREAS: Environmental Archaeology, Quantitative Techniques in Archaeology, African Archaeology, Archaeology of Botswana, Lithics
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Rock Art Socio-Politics; Microscopic Analysis of Lithics; Pragmatic history of San-speaking peoples and Culture and Customs of Botswana
Dr S. Mothulatshipi, Lecturer in Archaeology BSc Hons (East Anglia), MSc (London), PhD (Edinburgh)
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Late Iron Age; human responses and environmental change in the Shashe-Limpopo basin and the Makgadikgadi environs; archaeological landscapes, land-use and human behaviour, Geoarchaeology.
Ms. S. Merlo, Lecturer in Archaeology BA & MA (Padova), MPhil (Cambridge)
RESEARCH INTERESTS: GIS and Remote Sensing applications; landscape archaeology; Saharan archaeology; theories of archaeological representation
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