Luise White
Office: 494 Grinter
Phone: (352) 392-4448
Fax: (352) 392-6927
Email: lwhite@history.ufl.edu
Website:
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/lwhite/
Mailing address:
Department of History
University of Florida
P.O. Box 117320
Gainesville, FL 32611-7320
Luise White is the author of more than thirty articles.
She has done research in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, and archival
research in England, Italy, and Belgium. In the course of her research she
has moved from women’s
history to medical history to political and military history, and from East
Africa to Central Africa. Her current project is two-fold, one book on the
history of Zimbabwe’s war of liberation and another on Rhodesia’s
renegade independence. She is the author of The Comforts
of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi (Chicago, 1990) which won
the Herskovits Prize for the Best Book in African Studies in 1991, Speaking
with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa (California, 2000),
and The
Assassination of Herbert Chitepo: Texts and Politics in Zimbabwe (Indiana,
2003). She is the co-editor, with David William Cohen and Stephan Miescher,
of African
Words, African Voices: Critical Practices in Oral History (Indiana,
2001), and, with Douglas Howland, of The State of Sovereignty: Territories,
Laws, Populations (Indiana University
Press, 2008).
