Welcome!
I’m a comparative historian of modern eastern and southern Africa interested in memory, mass violence, decolonization, and print culture. I study the ways in which African societies have defined their relationship to the past and the future, and how these changing relationships affected notions of sovereignty and justice on the continent.
In 2023-25, I’ll serve as a the Charles E. Scheidt Postdoctoral Fellow in Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University.
In August 2024, I’ll join Stellenbosch University’s Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest as a Visiting Scholar.
News:
October 31, 2023: The Journal of Southern African Studies has awarded me the Terence Ranger Prize for 2022 for my article “Genocide and the Politics of Memory in the Decolonization of Namibia.”
Upcoming Presentations:
December 12-14, 2024: “Our Homestead: Colonial Genocide, Kinship, and Narrations of Indigenous Sovereignty in Namibia”, African Studies Association Meeting, Chicago
Fabian Krautwald 