Participant Info
- First Name
- Kathryn
- Last Name
- de Luna
- Country
- United States
- State
- DC District of Columbia
- deluna@georgetown.edu
- Affiliation
- Georgetown University
- Website URL
- https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014TYQYAA4/kathryn-de-luna
- Keywords
- Africa, Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern, Deep History, History of Emotions, STS, Archaeology, Historical Linguistics, Ethnography, Historical Methods
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- on leave AY18-19
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am an historian of Africa specializing in the histories of eastern, central and southern Africa before the 20th century. I have conducted fieldwork among fifteen societies in five countries in eastern and south central Africa and regularly publish in the fields of history, linguistics, and archaeology.
I am currently researching two projects. The first combines linguistic and archaeological evidence with more familiar documentary archives to trace the politicization of pyrotechnologies, senses, emotions in central Africa over the last three millennia. The second involves a wider team of soil scientists, archaeologists, and ethnographers reconstructing the changing cultures of mobility across strategies climate shifts in central Africa over the last five millennia.
I am on leave in AY18-19 pursuing graduate training in archaeological sciences under the support of a Mellon New Directions Fellowship.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- Africa
- Expertise by Chronology
- Ancient, Medieval, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, Early Modern
- Expertise by Topic
- Computational, Economic History, Environment, Family, Food History, Gender, Indigenous Peoples, Material Culture, Migration & Immigration, Museums, Politics, Rural & Agrarian History, Science, Sexuality, Slavery, Technology, Women
