Rank:



Associate Professor


Address:


 

History Department (M/C 198)
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 South Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7109

Office Phone: (312) 996-3141
Direct Phone: (312) 413-2345

Fax: (312) 996-6377
Email: kahoppe1@uic.edu





Education:



• Certificate in the Study of Contemporary Literature, University of Rostock, GDR, 1982
• A.B., History and German Literature, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, MA, 1982
• M.S., Foreign Service-Africa, Gerogetonw University, D.C., 1988, Joint Program in M.A./M.S. completed with honors
• M.A., Early Modern European History, Georgetown University, D.C., 1988, Joint Program in M.A./M.S. completed with honors
• Ph.D., African History, Boston University, 1997

 

Publications:

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• Lords of the Fly: Sleeping Sickness Control in British East Africa, 1900-1960 (Greenwood Press, 2004)
• “Simulated Safaris: Reading African Animals in the US,” in Klaus Benesch and Kerstin Schmidt, eds, Space in America: Theory History Culture, (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi Press, 2005).
• "Illegal Living and Planned Communities: Forced Depopulations and Resettlement in British Colonial Sleeping Sickness Control in Tanzania, 1920-1960," in Mark Dorian and Gillian Rose, eds., Deterritorialisations' Revisioning Landscapes and Politics (London: Black Dog Publishing, 2003)
• "Nile Perch," in Shepard Krech, J.R. Merchant, Carolyn Merchant, eds., Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (Routledge, 2003)
• “Gender in African History, 1885-1939,” in Toyin Falola, ed., Africa, Vol. 3, (Carolina Academic Press, 2002)
• "Lords of the Fly: Colonial Visions and Revisions of African Sleeping Sickness Environments on Ugandan Lake Victoria, 1900-1962," Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 16:1 (1997)
• "Lords of the Flies: British Sleeping Sickness Policies as Environmental Engineering in the Lake Victoria Region, 1900-1950," Boston University, African Studies Center Working Papers, No. 203, 1995
  

• Review: German Women for Empire, 1884-1945, Lora Wildenthal, The Journal for Interdisciplinary History 34:1 (2003)
• Review: Imposing Wilderness: Struggles over Livelihood and Nature Preservation in Africa, Roderick P. Neumann, International Journal of African Historical Studies 35:3 (2002)
• Review: Management and Conservation of the African Great Lakes, Ruud Crul, International Journal of African Historical Studies 34:1 (2001)
• Review: Gender, Geography, and Empire: Victorian Women Travelers in West Africa, Cheryl McEwan, International Journal of African Historical Studies 34:1 (2001)
• Review: Great Ideas for Teaching About Africa, edited by Misty L. Bastian and Jane L. Parpart, International Journal of African Historical Studies 34:3A (1999)
• Review Essay: "Whose Life is it, Anyway?: Issues of Representation in Life Narrative Texts of African Women," International Journal of African Historical Studies, 26:3 (1993)
  

• “Disease Control in Colonial Africa,” African Studies Lecture Series, Ewalewa Center of African Cultural Studies, Bayreuth, Republic of Germany, May, 2004.
• “Imagining Africa in the US,” Martin Luther King Day Speaker, University of Bonn, Republic of Germany, January, 2004.
• “The Disneyfication of Nature,” University of Koln, Republic of Germany, January, 2004.
• “Double Margins: Overlapping African and Colonial Frontiers on Lake Victoria,” American Society of Environmental History, Providence, R.I., March, 2003.
• “Disease and Colonial Power on the Islands and Shores of Ugandan Lake Victoria,” African Studies Annual Meeting, Wash. D.C., December, 2002.
• “Trypanosomiasis Control in Colonial East Africa,” Interdisciplinary Conference on African Sleeping Sickness, Oxford University, May, 2002.
• “Bless the Beasts: Colonial Science, Land Alienation and Global Rhetorics of Conservation,” Modern Literature Conference, Michigan State University, October, 2001.
• “Illegal Landscapes and Utopian Settlements: Sleeping Sickness Depopulations and Relocations in Colonial East Africa.” Landscapes and Politics Conference, University of Edinburgh, March, 2001.

A/Cross Diasporas: Race Riots in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, April 1998, University of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

  Recent Grants and Fellowships:

• Fulbright Research and Teaching Fellow, University of Bayreuth, 2004.
• Humanities Institute Fellowship, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2001-2002.
• University of Minnesota Dean's Award Conference Grant: A/Cross Diasporas: Race Riots in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, University of Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 1998.
• Fulbright-Hays Graduate Studies Research Grant, Uganda and Tanzania, 1993-1994.
• Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad Grant, intensive Swahili language studies, Tanzania, summer 1992.

• Makerere Institute of Social Research, Kampala, Uganda
• Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute, Mwanza/Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
• East African Great Lakes Project, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
• African Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia
• World History Association, Honolulu, HI
• American Society for Environmental History, Durham, North Carolina

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