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Andreana Prichard

Andreana Prichard

Wick Cary Associate Professor of Honors and African History
Honors College

Dr. Prichard’s research focuses on the intersections of gender, politics, and religion in East Africa. Her first book was a multi-generational history of a group of African women lay evangelists who worked in Tanzania and Zanzibar between 1860 and 1970. She is currently working on a project about American evangelical development initiatives in Kenya, and an oral history of women grassroots activists in Uganda. She teaches classes at OU about humanitarianism in Africa, Christianity in Africa, and about African history more generally; she also loves accompanying students to study abroad.

Education

  • Ph.D., Department of History (African History), Northwestern University
  • M.A., Department of History (African History), Northwestern University
  • B.A., Department of History (concentration in Africa), Kenyon College

Research Interests

  • Gender and Politics in Africa
  • Christianity in Africa
  • Race, Religion, and Nationalism
  • Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa

Courses Taught

  • HON 2970 Images of Africa
  • HON 2970 Sex and Love in Africa
  • HON 3993 Africa and the Urge to Help: Humanitarianism in Historical Perspective
  • HON 3993 Class Project: http://theurgetohelp.com/
  • HON 3993 Modern African Lives: African History through Biography and Autobiography
  • HON 3993 Christianity and sub-Saharan Africa

Books

Sisters in Spirit: Christianity, Affect, and Community Building in East Africa, 1860-1970 book cover

Sisters in Spirit: Christianity, Affect, and Community Building in East Africa, 1860–1970

Michigan State University Press, 2017

Recent Articles

Religions journal cover

Marshall, K., & Prichard, A. (2020). Spiritual Warfare in Circulation. Religions, 11(7), 327. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11070327

Spiritual Warfare in Circulation (.pdf)

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Prichard, A. C. (2019). [Review of the book Reel Pleasures: Cinema Audiences and Entrepreneurs in Twentieth-Century Urban Tanzania, by Laura Fair.] Journal of Social History, 54(1), 382-384. https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shz119

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Prichard, A. C. (2019). ‘I am  … but a pawn in your chess board’: letters, self-presentation, and the making of a lady missionary’s career. Women’s History Review, 28(1), 159-175. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2018.1465510

Teaching Africa: A Journal of Pedagogy and Practice journal cover

Prichard, A. C. (2018). Christianity and Perspective in the Classroom: The BaKgalagadi and the Bible Belt. Teaching Africa: A Journal of Pedagogy and Practice, 1(1).

ranscending Borders: Abortion in the Past and Present journal cover

Prichard, A. C. (2017). A “Grievously Sinful Attempt to Destroy the Life Which God Has Given:” Abortion, Anglicanism, and Debates About Community Composition in Twentieth-Century Zanzibar. In S. Stettner, K. Ackerman, K. Burnett, & T. Hay (Eds.), Transcending Borders: Abortion in the Past and Present (pp. 69-87). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48399-3_5

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Prichard, A. (2015). [Review of the book Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: A History of Dissent, c. 1935-1972, by Derek R. Peterson]. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 48(1), 120-122. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44715389

The International Journal of African Historical Studies journal cover

Prichard, A. (2013). [Review of the book Trafficking in Slavery’s Wake: Law and the Experience of Women and Children in Africa, by Benjamin N. Lawrance & Richard L. Roberts, Ed.]. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 46(3), 470-471. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24393375

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Prichard, A. C. (2013). Let Us Swim in the Pool of Love’: Love Letters and Discourses of Community Composition in Twentieth-Century Tanzania. The Journal of African History, 54(1), 103-122. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853713000017