Brett L. Shadle, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Northwestern, 2000)
Areas of Specialization: Africa - gender, legal, social, colonialism
Current Research: Sexual violence in Kenya, c. 1880s-2006
Recent Publications:
•"Rape in the Courts of Gusiiland, Kenya, 1940s-1960s" African Studies Review 51,
2 (2008):
27-50
•"Girl Cases": Marriage Disputes and Colonialism in Gusiiland, Kenya (published in 2006)
•”African Court Elders in Nyanza Province, Kenya,” c. 1930 - 1960. In Intermediaries, Interpreters and Clerks: African Employees and the Making of Colonial Africa, edited by Benjamin Lawrance, Emily Lynn Osborn, and Richard Roberts. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.
•”Bridewealth and Female Consent: Marriage Disputes in African Courts, Gusiiland, Kenya.” Journal of African History 44 (2003): 241-62.

