Research and Publications
Dr Joanna Lewis is a specialist in modern British imperial and African history. She has a particular interest in colonial government and its legacy in Africa; violence, decolonisation and post-colonial governance; white settler cultures; and racial rule. Also more generally imperialism and popular culture; globalisation and development intervention; and the social construction of gender.
Recent academic publications include "Harold MacMillan and the Wind of Change", in Wm. Roger Louis (ed.), Resurgent adventures with Britannia, Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain (I. B. Tauris, 2011); 'Nasty, brutish and in shorts? British colonial rule, violence and the historians of Mau Mau', The Round Table Journal, (April 2008); 'Carry on up the Solent: Southampton's reception for the mortal remains of Dr David Livingstone', in Miles Taylor (ed) Southampton: Gateway to Empire? (I. B. Tauris, 2008); with Philip Murphy, '"The old pal's protection society": The Colonial Office and the media on the eve of decolonisation', in Chandrika Kaul (ed) The press and empire (Manchester University Press, 2006); and '"Daddy wouldn't buy me a Mau Mau": the British popular press and the demoralisation of empire' in J. Lonsdale & A. Odhiambo, (eds.) Mau Mau and nationhood: arms, authority and narration (James Currey: Oxford, 2003)
Dr Lewis came to LSE in 2004, previously having held lectureships at Cambridge University, SOAS and Durham University. Her doctoral research was on colonial governance and development in Kenya supervised by Professor John Lonsdale, Faculty of History, Cambridge University. She then held a four year ESRC Research Fellowship in war and reconstruction at the African Studies Centre and a Teaching Fellowship at Churchill College. She also has a Master's in International Relations from Cambridge and has been Director of Studies in History at Corpus Christi and Churchill College, and briefly Director of the African Studies Centre where she is a research associate still. She is Welsh.
Her current research interests include Robert Mugabe and the British press; and the memorialisation of David Livingstone in Britain and Africa. In 2007, Dr Lewis won an LSE teaching prize. She won an AHRC research leave award for 2008-09.
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Charity Zambezi Row
Dr Lewis has written a short essay in support of the RowZambezi Expedition 2011. A charity event, designed to raise money for WaterAid, it is being organised by a second year History student, Oliver Cook. Dr Lewis was happy to be able to support this event following Livingstone's journey down the river, and she looks forward to seeing the team at the finishing line near Victoria Falls in the summer.
Teaching and Supervision
Dr Lewis's teaching at the LSE reflects the research interests outlined above. She teaches the following courses:
At undergraduate level:
HY113: From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century| (taught with other members of staff in the Department)
HY117: Rule Britannia: Britain and Empire from 1780 to the Present Day|
At Masters level:
HY423: Empire, Colonialism and Globalisation| (taught with other members of staff in the Department)
HY436: Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa|
Dr Lewis also supervises the following PhD students:
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Alicia Altorfer-Ong
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Independence, Dependence and Third World Solidarity: Sino-Tanzanian relations from 1964-1975
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Harcourt Fuller
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The process of decolonization in the Gold Coast/Ghana (and possibly Nigeria) and the role of money and other symbols and tools of nationalism in the nation-building process
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Contact Details
Office: Room EAS.E494
Telephone: 020 7955 7924
Email Address: J.E.Lewis1@lse.ac.uk|
Office Hours
Wednesdays, 14:30-15:30 and
Thursdays, 15:00-16:00