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Background

Dr. Nathaniel Mathews is a historian of modern Africa, specializing in the history of modern Zanzibar, and the global afterlives of the
Zanzibar revolution.

Education

• PhD, Northwestern University
  
• MA, Georgetown University
• BA, Howard University, History and Anthropology

Research Interests

• African history
• Modern Zanzibar
• Islam on the Swahili coast
• History & memory
• History of slavery

Teaching Interests

• African history
• African diasporas in the Indian Ocean
• Swahili culture and language
• Comparative race and slavery

More Info

Recent Publication:
Nathaniel Mathews, “The ‘Fused Horizon’ of Abolitionism and Islam: Historicism, the Quran and the Global History of Abolition” Journal of Global Slavery 4 (2019), 226-265.

Research Profile

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