Richard Waller

Associate Professor of History and International Relations

Ph.D. Cambridge
Curriculum Vitae

Carnegie 110
Phone: 577-3326
rwaller@bucknell.edu

Richard Waller joined the History and IR faculty in 1989. His BA and Ph.D are from Cambridge and his MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He has previously taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Malawi, Virginia and North Carolina. He has done extensive field research in Kenya, principally on the history of the Maasai. He teaches in the areas of Africa and Imperialism/Colonialism and still focuses his research and writing on Africa (especially East Africa) during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His most recent publications are on aspects of crime and the law in Kenya in the colonial period. He is a member of the IR and African Studies committees, and faculty mentor for the Bucknell African Students Association.

His published scholarship includes:

• “Rebellious Youth in Colonial Africa” Journal of African History, 2006, 47, 77-92
• “Production Strategies: Pastoralism”, in (eds.) J.Middleton & J.Miller, 2007, New Encyclopedia of Africa (Gale)
• “Subversive Material: African Embodiments of Modern War”, in (eds.) N.Saunders & P.Cornish, Contested Objects: Material Memories of the Great War , 2009, (London)
• “Bad Boys in the Bush: Disciplining Murranin Colonial Maasailand”, in press, in (eds.) A Burton & H Charton, Generations Past: Youth in East African History
• “Towards a Contextualisation of Policing in Colonial Kenya”, Journal of Eastern African Studies, forthcoming
• “Pastoral Production in Historical Perspective” in (ed.)E Akeampong, Agriculture and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, forthcoming
• “Arbitrary Proceedings: Collective Punishment in Kenya”, in (eds.) M.Carotenuto & B Shadle, A History of Violence in Colonial Kenya, forthcoming