Dr. L. Carol Summers
Professor of History and International Studies
International Studies Concentration Advisor, World Politics and Diplomacy
Profile
Carol Summers has published on syphilis and reproductive policy in colonial Uganda, racial ideology and segregation in colonial Zimbabwe, Zimbabwean struggles over schooling and development, and on radical politics in late colonial Uganda. She is currently working on her third book, Restless Tongues: Morality, Modernity and Radical Politics in Late Colonial Buganda, 1939-1956, which examines how activists debated and deployed ideas of citizenship, democracy, loyalty and patriotism through combinations of local normative values of family, clan and kingdom with modern methods as part of their efforts to reconstruct a moral and modern kingdom.
Grants and Fellowships
American Council of Learned Societies Sabbatical Fellowship (2007-2008)
American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship (2007-2008)
National Humanities Center Fellow (2003-2004)
Princeton University Davis Center Fellow (1999)
National Academy of Education Spencer Fellow (1995)
Institute for Advanced Study in the African Humanities Fellow, Northwestern University (1995)
Awards
University of Richmond Distinguished Educator (2001)
Publications
Books
Colonial Lessons: Africans' Education in Southern Rhodesia, 1918-1935 (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002).
From Civilization to Segregation: Social Ideals and Social Control in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1934 (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1994)
Articles
’Subterranean Evil’ and ‘Tumultuous Riot’ in Buganda: Authority and Alienation at King’s College, Budo, 1942” Journal of African History 47 (2006) 93-113
“Radical Rudeness: Ugandan Social Critiques during the 1940s” Journal of Social History 39:3 (2006) 741-770
“Grandfathers, Grandsons, Morality and Radical Politics in Late Colonial Buganda” International Journal of African Historical Studies 38:3 (2005) 427-447
"Young Buganda and Old Boys: Youth, Generational Transition and Ideas of Leadership in Buganda, 1920-1949” Africa Today 51:3 (Spring 2005) 109-128
"Mission Boys, Civilized Men and Marriage: Educated African Men in the Missions of Southern Rhodesia 1920-1945" Journal of Religious History 23:1 (February 1999) 75-91
"Giving Orders: Controversies over Africans' authority in development programs in rural Southern Rhodesia, 1928-1934" International Journal of African Historical Studies 31:2 (1998) 279-300
"Demanding Schools: The Umchingwe project and African men's struggles for education in Southern Rhodesia, 1928-1934" African Studies Review 40:2 (September 1997) 117-139
"'If you can educate the Native Woman...': Debates over the schooling and education of girls and women in Southern Rhodesia 1900-1934" History of Education Quarterly 36:4 (Winter 1996) 449-471
"Educational Controversies: African Activism and Educational Strategies in Southern Rhodesia, 1920-1934" Journal of Southern African Studies 20 (March 1994) 3-25
"Intimate Colonialism: The Imperial Production of Reproduction in Uganda, 1907 to 1925" Signs 16:4 (Summer, 1991) 787-807
Chapters
“Youth, Elders and Metaphors of Political Change in Late Colonial Buganda” in Generations Past: Youth in East African History, Andrew Burton, ed. [under review, Ohio University Press]
“Tickets, Concerts and School Fees: Faith and Finance in Colonial Zimbabwe 1900-40” in Conversion: Old Worlds and New Anthony Grafton and Kenneth Mills, ed.s, (Rochester: U. of Rochester Press, 2003) 241-270
“Force and Colonial Development in Eastern Uganda” in J.M. Bahemuka and JL Brockington, ed.s, East Africa in Transition: Communities, Cultures and Change (Nairobi: Acton Publishers, 2002) 181-207
Education
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
M.A., Johns Hopkins University
B.A., Swarthmore College
Areas of Expertise
Late Colonial Buganda and UgandaRadical Political Change
Nationalism