Hölger Bernt Hansen
Holger Bernt Hansen is director of the African Studies Center at the University of Copenhagen.
Editor of…
Changing Uganda
Dilemmas of Structural Adjustment
Yoweri Museveni battled to power in 1986. His government has impressed many observers as Uganda's most innovative since it gained independence from Britain in 1962. The Economist recommended it as a model for other African states struggling to develop their resources in the best interests of their peoples.…
Developing Uganda
Uganda's recovery since Museveni came to power in 1986 has been one of the heartening achievements in a continent where the media have given intense coverage to disasters. This book assesses the question of whether the reality lives up to the image that has so impressed the supporters of its recovery.…
Christian Missionaries and the State in the Third World
The fact that many of the leaders in the Third World were educated by Christian missionaries is a decisive factor in world politics today. Christian Missionaries and the State in the Third World provides examples of how these missionaries contributed to the construction, destruction, and reconstruction of state structures in Africa and the Caribbean, through educational activity and attempts at healing and trade, as well as by preaching, prayer, and other sacramental endeavors.…
Uganda Now
Between Decay & Development
Can the revolutionary government of Yoweri Museveni’s National Resistance Movement put Uganda back on the road from decay to development?These informed assessments put the present situation in context.…
Religion & Politics in East Africa
The Period since Independence
Religious activities have been of continuing importance in the rise of protest against postcolonial governments in Eastern Africa. Issues considered include attempts by government to “manage” religious affairs in both Muslim and Christian areas; religious denominations as surrogate oppositions to one-party-state regimes and as advocates of human rights; Islamic fundamentalism before and after the end of the Cold War; and Christian churches as NGOs in the age of structural adjustment.…
- Ambreen Hai
Associate professor of English literature and language at Smith College, where she teaches literary theory and Anglophone postcolonial and British literature… - Jane G. Haigh
- Gebreyesus Hailu
Prominent and influential figure in the cultural and intellectual life of Eritrea during the Italian colonial period and in the post-Italian era in Africa… - Horatio Hale
- Jason David Hall
Author of Seamus Heaney’s Rhythmic Contract and editor, with Ashby Bland Crowder, of Seamus Heaney: Poet, Critic, Translator… - Marcus Hall
Senior lecturer in environmental sciences at the University of Zurich and assistant professor of history at the University of Utah… - Margaret Hall
In the Research and Analysis Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London… - Ruth Hall
Senior researcher at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa… - Kristie Hamilton
- Joseph Hanlon
Writer on southern Africa… - Hölger Bernt Hansen
- Philip J. Harold
Assistant professor of political science at Robert Morris University, Pennsylvania… - Patrick Harries
Professor of history at the University of Basel and author of Work, Culture and Identity: Migrant Laborers in Mozambique and South Africa, c. 1860–1910… - H.D. Harrington
- Antony H. Harrison
Professor of English at North Carolina State University… - Wolfram Hartmann
- Lawrence Hass
Professor of humanities at Austin College in Sherman, Texas, where he teaches philosophy and theater arts… - John Hatchard
- Sharon Hatfield
Independent writer and editor whose interests include Appalachian history, literature, and media… - Cynthia L. Haven
- Kevin Haworth
Winner of the Samuel Goldberg Prize for best Jewish fiction and finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Price… - Patricia Hayes
- Jonathan Haynes
Associate professor in the Humanities Division at Southampton College of Long Island University… - Suzette Heald
- Maureen Heffernan
Lead staff person developing the Hershey Children's Garden… - Martin Heidegger
- James D. Henderson
- Derek Heng
Assistant professor of history at the Ohio State University at Marion… - Cynthia Lee Henthorn
- Dean A. Herrin
National Park Service Coordinator… - Jack W. Herring
Director of the Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor University… - Martin J. Hershock
Associate professor of history at the University of Michigan–Dearborn… - Naomi Hetherington
- Edward Hewett
Artist and writer who makes his home on Martha’s Vineyard… - Kathryn Wertheim Hexter
Director of the Ohio Urban University Program at Cleveland State… - Jeanne A. K. Hey
- MaryEllen Higgins
Associate professor of English at the Greater Allegheny Campus of Pennsylvania State University… - Catherine Higgs
Professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville… - Claire Oritz Hill
Independent scholar… - Robert A. Hill
Professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and editor in chief of The Marcus Garvey & Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project in the James S. Coleman African Studies Center… - Anna Hillyar
Native Russian, now resident in England… - D. C. Hindson
- Tom E. Hinson
Curator of contemporary art and photography at the Cleveland Museum of Art… - Evelyn J. Hinz
- Martin Hipsky
Professor of English at Ohio Wesleyan University… - Ufrieda Ho
- Stuart D. Hobbs
Program director for History in the Heartland, a professional development program for middle and high school teachers of history… - Joseph Morgan Hodge
Assistant professor of history at West Virginia University in Morgantown… - Dorothy L. Hodgson
Assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University… - Griff Hogan
Corporate disability consultant with twenty-five years of experience in the field… - Cary Holladay
Author of a novel, Mercury, and two collections of short stories, The People Down South and The Palace of Wasted Footsteps… - Inez Hollander
- Betty Hollow
- John D. Holm
Professor and chairperson of the political science department at Cleveland State University… - Sidney Homan
Professor of English at the University of Florida as well as an actor and director… - Katherine Homewood
Professor of anthropology at University College, London… - Park Honan
- Charles Hood
- William T. Horner
Professor and the director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of Missouri… - Charles Hornsby
- D. Seth Horton
Born in San Diego and graduated from the University of Arizona with an MFA in creative writing… - Lynn Horton
- Paulin J. Hountondji
Professor of philosophy at the National University of Benin… - James H. Howard
- W. Stephen Howard
Also director of the Institute for the African Child, which he founded to promote progressive development of children and their families across the African world… - Elisabeth A. Howe
- Jennifer L. Howe
Scholar of nineteenth-century American decorative arts with a focus on Cincinnati furniture and metalwork… - W. D. Howells
- Kathy M. Howlett
Author of articles on Shakespeare, film, and Aphra Behn… - Katherine Hoyt
- Jasmin Hristov
Advanced PhD candidate in sociology at York University, Toronto, and Research Associate at the Centre for Research on Latin America… - Mark Hubbard
Professor of history at Eastern Illinois University… - Thomas Hudak
- Ann Hudson
- Jonathan Huener
Co-editor, with Francis R. Nicosia, of Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany: Origins, Practices, Legacies… - Jon Hughes
- Karen Monzel Hughes
Associate dean in the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning and associate professor of design at the University of Cincinnati… - Linda K. Hughes
Author of The Manyfaced Glass: Tennyson’s Dramatic Monologues, New Woman Poets: An Anthology, and, with Michael Lund, The Victorian Serial and Victorian Publishing and Mrs… - Denison B. Hull
Graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard School of Architecture… - John Hulsman
- Bob Hunter
- Donald A. Hutslar
- William Harold Hutt
- Gwen Hyman
Assistant professor of humanities at The Cooper Union in New York City, where she also directs the Center for Writing and Language Arts…
