Elias C. Mandala
Professor
439 Rush Rhees Library
Rochester, New York 14627-0070
emdl@mail.rochester.edu
phone: 585.275.2058
fax: 585.756.4425
Ph.D., Minnesota, 1983
Courses Offered
(subject to change)
Spring 2009
HIS 201: The Third World (AAS 202)
HIS 347W/447: The Political Economy of Food in Africa (AAS 335)
Fall 2009
HIS 106: Colonial and Contemporary Africa (AAS 106; ANT 248)
HIS 346W/446: South Africa Since 1910 (AAS 346)
Spring 2010
HIS 201: The Third World (AAS 202)
HIS 347W/447: The Political Economy of Food in Africa (AAS 335)
Fields of Interest
I teach African and global history, and my research interests include African agriculture, environments, food, gender, peasantry, and labor movements in southern Africa since the mid-nineteenth century. I am currently writing a book, Black Englishmen, on the Magololo servants of Dr. David Livingstone.
Representative Publications:
- “Feeding and Fleecing the Native: How the Nyasaland Transport System Distorted a New Food Market, 1890s-1920s,” The Journal of Southern African Studies 32, 3 (September 2006): 505-524.
- The End of Chidyerano: A History of Food and Everyday Life in Malawi, 1860-2004 (Heinemann, 2005).
- “Beyond the ‘Crisis’ in African Food Studies,” The Journal of the Historical Society 3: 3-4 (Summer/Fall, 2003): 281-301.
- Work and Control in a Peasant Economy: A History of the Lower Tchiri Valley in Malawi, 1859-1960 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990 [Finalist, 1990 Herskovits Award]).
