Dr. Heike Schmidt (Humboldt University, Berlin)

Submitted:  Sun, 11 Jun 2000 11:40:37 +0200


Dr. Heike Schmidt
Assistant Professor for African History
Department of African Studies
Phil. Fak. III
Humboldt-University at Berlin
Unter den Linden 6
D-10099 
Berlin
Germany

phone:  030-20936671/99
fax:    030-20936666
e-mail: heike.schmidt.1@rz.hu-berlin.de



Research interests:

Historical anthropology, social history, and gender(ed) history of Eastern
and Southern Africa ; violence, memory, gender, power, theory and practice
of landscape ; methodological issues (oral history, personal narratives as
a genre).

Current research:

"Gender and Power: Political Authority in Rural Africa, 19th and 20th
Century".

Select publications:

'When There Is War'. Experiences and Memories of Political Violence in
Eastern Zimbabwe, 1850s to 1990s, (MS, in preparation).

African Modernities? Duration and Disjuncture, edited with Jan-Georg
Deutsch and Peter Probst, (James Currey and Heinemann, Oxford and
Portsmouth/NH, in preparation).

Afrika und das Andere - Alterität und Innovation, edited with Albert Wirz,
(Lit, Hamburg, 1998), 392pp.

'Wissensproduktion und die Frage nach dem Ort der Weltgeschichte.
Kommentare zu Steven Feierman', in: Harneit-Sievers, Axel (ed.),
Afrikanische Geschichte und Weltgeschichte. Regionale und globale Themen in
Forschung und Lehre, (Berlin, 2000), pp. 23-35.

'Neither War Nor Peace. Making Sense of Violence', in: Elwert, Georg,
Feuchtwang, Stephan and Neubert, Dieter (eds.), Dynamics of Violence,
Processes of Escalation and De-escalation in Violent Group Conflicts,
Supplement 1, special issue of Sociologus, (Berlin, 1999), pp. 211-225.

'Geschlechterverhöltnisse. Gegenstand und Methode', in: J.-G. Deutsch
und A. Wirz (eds.), Geschichte in Afrika. Einführung in Grundprobleme
und Debatten, (Arabisches Buch, Berlin, 1997), pp. 175-200. [textbook on
history in Africa]

'Healing the Wounds of War. Memories of Violence and the Making of History
in Zimbabwe's Most Recent Past', Journal of Southern African Studies,
23(1997)2, pp. 301-310.