Kelly M. Askew (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Submitted: Fri, 27 June 2008


Kelly M. Askew
Interim Director, African Studies Center
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Associate Professor, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies
The University of Michigan

Mail address:
101 West Hall
1085 S. University Ave.
Ann Arbor, Michigan  48109-1107  USA

phone:    (734) 764-2337
fax       (734) 763-6077
e-mail:   kaskew@umich.edu


Education:

Ph.D. Harvard University, 1997
B.A. Yale University, 1988


Research interests:

Music and performance of East Africa, especially Tanzania ; media ;  
cultural policy ; nationalism ; African socialism and postsocialism ;  
1964 Zanzibar revolution


Selected Publications:

Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania  
(University of Chicago Press, 2002)

The Anthropology of Media: A Reader, co-edited with Richard R. Wilk  
(Blackwell Publishers, 2002)

African Postsocialisms, co-edited with M. Anne Pitcher (Edinburgh  
University Press, 2006)