Steven Pierce (University of Manchester, UK)

Submitted:   Fri, 14 Oct 2005 19:59:11 -0400



Dr. Steven Pierce
Lecturer in Colonial and Postcolonial History
University of Manchester
Department of History 
School of Arts, Histories, and Cultures
Humanities Lime Grove
University of Manchester
Oxford Road,
Manchester
M13 9PL
United Kingdom

e-mail:  spierce1@gmail.com


Research in northern Nigeria, in and around Kano on law, colonialism and 
postcoloniality, gender, the state, Kano Emirate, the Sokoto Caliphate.


Books: 

Farmers and the State in Colonial Kano: Land Tenure and the Legal 
Imagination. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005).

Co-editor, with Anupama Rao, Discipline and the Other Body: Correction, 
Corporeality, Colonialism (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006).