Dr. Andrea Arrington
Education
- Ph.D. - History, Emory University - 2007
- M.A. - African history, Emory University - 2005
- B.A. - History, Knox College - 2000
Teaching Interests
- African history, African studies, Women's/Gender studies, Atlantic World, Public Health
Research Interests
- African history, African studies
Dr. Andrea Arrington joined the Department of History and African and African American Studies Program at ISU in August 2015. She earned her B.A. with Honors from Knox College in Galesburg, Il and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Emory University in Atlanta, GA. The first trip Dr. Arrington made to Africa was as a study abroad student in Zimbabwe for six month as an undergraduate. Since then, Dr. Arrington has conducted extensive research in southern Africa, with most her time spent in Zambia and Zimbabwe. Dr. Arrington also lived in Accra, Ghana on a research fellowship and traveled extensively around West Africa during that time. Her first book focused on colonial development around Victoria Falls. Her current project focuses on the development of neonatal emergency care in Zambia.
B.A. with Honors, Knox College
M.A., Emory University
Ph.D., Emory University
Victoria Falls and Colonial Imagination in British Southern Africa: Turning Water into Gold, Palgrave Macmillan, March 2017
“Women’s Movements in Contemporary Africa.” Co-authored chapter in Changing Perspectives on African Women and Gender, Forthcoming, University of Wisconsin, 2018
African World Histories, Volume 5: Africanizing Democracies (co-authored). Oxford University Press, 2015
“Competing for Tourists at Victoria Falls: A historical consideration of the effects of government involvement.” Development Southern Africa Vol. 27, Issue 5, 2010
“Making Sense of Martha: Single Women and Mission Work.” Social Sciences and Missions Vol. 23, Number 2, 2010
“Competitive Labour: Divisions between Zambian and Zimbabwean Workers.” African Studies, 68, 1, April 2009
“Europe and Europeans in Africa” and “Environmentalism in Africa” entries in the Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, 2010
"Zimbabwe" and "Zambia" entries in the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, 2008
Book Review: "Ngecha: A Kenyan Village in a Time of Rapid Social Change" in International Journal of African Historical Studies
Dr. Arrington writes and presents extensively on colonial development in southern Africa and is especially interested in development around Victoria Falls and is interested in the long term impact of tourism on the local population at the site. In addition to her work on Victoria Falls, Dr. Arrington teaches and writes about African colonial history, post-colonial Africa, public health in Africa, and gender and women in Africa. She is active in several African Studies groups, including the African Studies Association Women’s Caucus and the Zambezi African Studies Association.