Institute for History Annual Report 2010 - O - Universiteit Leiden

Lecturer and track coordinator of the African
Studies Research Masters African Studies
advanced track on ‘Patterns of Power’.
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD
committee
PhD supervision:
Current doctoral research projects:
Ntewusu, Samuel Aniegye, Leiden
University/ASC, Towards a Social History of Tudu
Lorry Park, Accra, Ghana 1908 – 2008 Co-promotor.
Sebastiaan Soeters, Leiden University/ASC,
Towards a Social History of Tamale, Ghana 1900 –
1981 Co-promotor.
Mary Davies, Leiden University/ASC, A Social
History of Rumphi District, Malawi, Co-promotor.
Iva Pesa, Leiden University/ASC, A social and
agricultural history of Mwinilunga, Zambia, Copromotor.
Melle Leenstra, Leiden University/IS Academy,
The instrumentalisation of the medical sector in
Zambia, 1964 – 2008, Co-promotor
Walter Nkwi, Leiden University/ASC, Social
History of Buea, Cameroon, Co-promotor.
Casper Erichsen, Leiden University, The causes and
consequences of Namibia’s prisoners-of-war and
concentration camps, 1904 – 1908, Co-promotor.
Phd examinations:
Rory Pilosoff, University of Sheffield, The
Unbearable Whiteness of Being: White Farming Voices
in Zimbabwe and Their Narration of the Recent Past, c.
1970 – 2004, External Examiner, 23 September
2010.
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Externally acquired funds
Dutch counterpart for the successful South Africa
Netherlands Paths for Alternative Development
funding application entitled, ‘An Oral History of
HIV/AIDS in KwaZulu-Natal:Life stories of
pastoral agents, NGO workers and caregivers
involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS. 2011 –
2013.
Miscellaneous
Editorial board memberships:
International Review of Social History, Cambridge
University Press (2005 – 2010).
Botswana Notes and Records, University of
Botswana (2009 onwards).
Publications
‘Remote but in contact with history and the
world’. In: PNAS: Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,
May 4 2010, vol. 107, no. 18, 2010.
‘Gold, the true motor of West African history: An
overview of the importance of gold in West Africa
and its relations with the wider world’, in Cristina
Panella (editor) Worlds of Debts: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives on Gold Mining in West Africa,
Amsterdam: Rozenberg 2010.
Dr. J.J.L. Gommans
Research