Derek R. Peterson
Professor of History & African Studies, University of Michigan

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    • Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival
    • Creative Writing
    • The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin
    • African Print Cultures
    • The Politics of Heritage
    • Abolitionism and Imperialism
    • Recasting the Past
    • Writing for Kenya
    • The Invention of Religion
    • The Life of Charles Muhoro Kareri
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Teaching

Here are the syllabi for courses that have been offered in the last few years.

DAAS 104/History 197: Making News in Africa (Fall 2015)

History 230: The Family in the Early Modern World (Winter 2013)

History/DAAS 247: Modern Africa (Winter 2015)

DAAS 346/English 389/History 362: Literature in African History (Fall 2014)

History 398: Methods for Historical Research (Winter 2012)

International Studies 401/History 407: Christianity and Politics in African History (Winter 2015)

History/DAAS 629: New Directions in African History (Fall 2014)

History/DAAS 786: Practicum: The Work of Writing African History (Winter 2012)

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‘Renovating History in Idi Amin’s Uganda’. Lecture for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Makerere University, February 2020.

Published in 2021

Derek Peterson and Richard Vokes, The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin: Photographs from the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (Munich: Prestel, 2021).

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