Robert Maxon

Teaching Fields:

African History, East African History, World History

Contact:

Robert Maxon
202B Woodburn Hall
P.O. Box 6303
Morgantown, WV 26506-6303
Phone: (304) 293-2421 ext. 5223
Fax: (304) 293-3616
Robert.Maxon@mail.wvu.edu

• Degrees

  Ph.D. Syracuse University

• Research Interests

  Modern East Africa; colonial Kenya; economic history of Kenya; rural agrarian change in Kenya; colonial history of the Gusii of western Kenya.

• Grad Students Advised

  MA
  Joseph Snyder
  Matthew Wood

  Ph.D.
  Nichols Githuku
  Kiva Makhete-Fall
  Kennedy Moindi
  Godriver Odhiambo
  Abdullahi Sara
  Charles Steinmetz
  Zoa Williams

• Courses Offered

• Publications

  Conflict and Accommodation in Western Kenya: the Gusii and the British, 1907-1963 (1989).

  Co-editor with W.R. Ochieng’, An Economic History of Kenya (1992).

  Struggle for Kenya: the Loss and Reassertion of Imperial Initiative, 1912-1923 (1993).

  East Africa: An Introductory History 2nd Edition (1994).

  “Up in Smoke: Peasants, Capital and the Colonial State in the Tobacco Industry in Western Kenya, 1930-1939,” African Economic History 22 (1994): 111-39.

  Historical Dictionary of Kenya Second Edition, co-authored with Thomas Ofcansky (2000).

  Connections to other Web sites: Regional Research Institute: www.rri.wvu.edu/vita/maxon.htm