Leaderboards/African history and culture studies

African history and culture studies

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Corinne Knowles
Rhodes University
2
Solanas
Unknown
3
Brooks Marmon
University of Pretoria
4
Carlehr Swanson
University of Virginia
5
Tatiana Thieme
University College London
6
Xiaochun Lei
Guilin University of Electronic Technology
7
Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy
University of Oxford
8
Clarah Dhokotera
University of the Witwatersrand
9
Jocelyn Alexander
University of Oxford
10
Doris H. Gray
Florida State University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Pushing against conventions: an African feminist contribution to knowledge-making
Gender and Education|2024
5 cit.
2
Opening the notebook: How and why human geographers take fieldnotes
Area|2024
4 cit.
3
The significance of sketching: Drawing a streetscape in a Nairobi neighbourhood
Area|2024
3 cit.
4
Ambivalent Encounters in Calais
Journal of Intercultural Studies|2024
2 cit.
5
Multilingual Immigrant Learner Identities (MILI): using translanguaging and the mirrors-and-windows framework as a pedagogy of integration
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism|2025
1 cit.
6
African activists in a decolonising world: the making of an anticolonial culture, 1952-1966
Commonwealth and Comparative Politics|2024
0 cit.
7
Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrooz Boochani, Behrooz Boochani (Translated) and Omid Tofighian and Moones Mansoobi
Journal of Refugee Studies|2024
0 cit.
8
Encountering Nations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Journal of Intercultural Studies|2024
0 cit.
9
Refugee Memoirs: Kouamé’s <i>Revenu des ténèbres</i> (2018) and Dina Nayeri’s <i>The Ungrateful Refugee</i> (2019) and the challenge of refugee narratives
Forum for Modern Language Studies|2024
0 cit.
10
Duncan Clarke, The Quiet Rhodesian: silent servant, 1909–1981. No place of publication given: Royal Sable Publishing (hb $45.78 – 978 1 991 22052 3). 2023, xviii + 310 pp
Africa Bibliography Research and Documentation|2024
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Moto Jnr. Francis
University of Moratuwa
2
Verhoef Grietjie
University of South Africa
3
Steven M. Goodman
Field Museum of Natural History
4
Linda Engström
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
5
Peter Walshe
Beaumont Hospital
6
Felix Murimbarimba
Ahmedabad University
7
Willem H. Oliver
University of South Africa
8
Getino
Unknown
9
Naomi van Stapele
The Hague University of Applied Sciences
10
Holly Porter
London School of Economics and Political Science

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Formalising village land dispossession? An aggregate analysis of the combined effects of the land formalisation and land acquisition agendas in Tanzania
Land Use Policy|2022
22 cit.
2
Tobacco Farming Following Land Reform in Zimbabwe: A New Dynamic of Social Differentiation and Accumulation
Journal of Southern African Studies|2022
10 cit.
3
From in-person to online worship
Verbum et Ecclesia|2022
7 cit.
4
SPECTRA: Personalizable Sound Recognition for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users through Interactive Machine Learning
Unknown Journal|2025
7 cit.
5
LaMPost: AI Writing Assistance for Adults with Dyslexia Using Large Language Models
Communications of the ACM|2024
6 cit.
6
Persistent Stapedial Artery Encountered during Cochlear Implantation
Case Reports in Otolaryngology|2022
4 cit.
7
A theology rhizome
Verbum et Ecclesia|2024
4 cit.
8
Cost overrun factors in pre-contract and post-contract stages: A critical analysis
Unknown Journal|2022
3 cit.
9
Aperçu sur la fragmentation de la forêt naturelle dans la Réserve Spéciale d’Ambohitantely et ses alentours entre 1949 et 2017, Hautes Terres Centrales
Madagascar Conservation & Development|2023
3 cit.
10
Serious games in service of Theology
Verbum et Ecclesia|2024
2 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Mahmood Mamdani
Columbia University
2
Paul E. Lovejoy
York University
3
Sara Berry
Johns Hopkins University
4
Jan Vansina
University of Wisconsin–Madison
5
Megan Vaughan
London Cancer
6
Daniel Posner
University of California System
7
Dan Brockington
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
8
Patrick Manning
University of Pittsburgh
9
Robin D. G. Kelley
Ohio State University Hospital
10
Colin Murray
Newcastle University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism.
The American Historical Review|1997
3.3k cit.
2
Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism
Foreign Affairs|1997
2k cit.
3
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|2003
1.6k cit.
4
Parks and Peoples: The Social Impact of Protected Areas
Annual Review of Anthropology|2006
1.5k cit.
5
The Anti-Politics Machine: 'Development', Depoliticization and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho.
Man|1994
1.2k cit.
6
No Condition Is Permanent: The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
The International Journal of African Historical Studies|1994
1.2k cit.
7
Literacy in Traditional Societies
African Historical Studies|1969
1.2k cit.
8
The Political Salience of Cultural Difference: Why Chewas and Tumbukas Are Allies in Zambia and Adversaries in Malawi
American Political Science Review|2004
942 cit.
9
An Economic History of West Africa
African Economic History Review|1974
930 cit.
10
Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism
The International Journal of African Historical Studies|1997
927 cit.

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