Ruramisai Charumbira

Short Biography

Ruramisai Charumbira holds a Ph.D. from Yale University. She is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Her teaching and research interests include: pre-1800 history of (Southern) Africa, Africa's colonial histories, particularly its impact on women's lives. She also does research and teaches on comparative women's and gender history; historical memory; and Africa's twentieth century intellectual life. Her most recent publication is ‘Gender, Nehanda, and the Central Mashonaland 1896–97 Rebellions: Revisiting the Evidence’, History in Africa, 35 (2008). She is currently completing a book manuscript on Nehanda of Zimbabwe.