Thomas Spear (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Submitted:  Mon, 20 May 2002


Thomas Spear
Professor of History
Chair, Department of History
University of Wisconsin-Madison
3211 Humanities
455 North Park Street
Madison, Wisconsin  53706  USA

phone:         608-263-1807/1784 (office)
               608-233-6867 (home)
fax:           608-263-5302
e-mail:        tspear@wisc.edu



Precolonial history of eastern and southern Africa.

Published works include:

With Isaria Kimambo (eds.), Eastern African Expressions of Christianity.
Oxford: James Currey; Athens: Ohio; Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota,
forthcoming early 1999.

Mountain farmers: moral economies of land and agricultural development in
Arusha & Meru.  (Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota ; Berkeley & Los Angeles:
University of California Press; Oxford: James Currey, 1997)

With Richard Waller (eds.)  Being Maasai: ethnicity & identity in East
Africa.  (London: James Currey; Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota; Nairobi:
EAEP; Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1993)

With Derek Nurse.  The Swahili: reconstructing the history and language of
an African society, 800-1500.  (Phildelphia: University of Pennyslvania
Press, 1985)

Kenya's past: an introduction to historical method in Africa. (London:
Longman Group, 1981)

The kaya complex: a history of the Mijikenda peoples of the Kenya coast to
1900. (Nairobi: Kenya Literature Bureau, 1978)