David Bresnahan | Assistant Professor
David Bresnahan
Assistant Professor
801/581-8127
CTIHB 319
About
I am a scholar of early African history with a research focus on East Africa’s engagements with the Indian Ocean world. I am currently completing a book, entitled Inland from Mombasa: The Indian Ocean World, East Africa’s Interior, and the Making of Global Connections, which is a longue durée history of the Swahili port city of Mombasa from the vantage point of the Mijikenda-speaking communities that lived on the city’s rural edges.
- BA, History, Elizabethtown College
- MA, History, Ohio University
- PhD, History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
East Africa, Indian Ocean, global history, oral societies, historical linguistics, trade histories, environment.
(2022) “Short Teaching Module: Precolonial Kenya, a Small-Scale History.” World History Commons.
(2020) “Greatness is Like a Rubbish Hole: Social Frictions and Global Connections in the Early Swahili World.” Journal of World History. Vol. 31, 361-390.
(2018) “Forest Imageries and Political Practice in Colonial Coastal Kenya." Journal of Eastern African Studies. Vol. 12, 655-673.
(2016) “Running in Kenya, a Field Story.” Edge Effects.
HIST 1500: World History to 1500
HIST 3440: Africa in World History
HIST 3460: Environmental History of Africa
HIST 4210: Global History of Poverty
BUS 3930: Global Indian Ocean