Marcia Wright
Marcia Wright | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Professor |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | London University (PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | African Studies |
Sub-discipline | social, ecological, and public health history of Africa |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
Marcia Wright is an American historian and professor emerita of history at Columbia University in New York City. She taught history at Columbia from 1966 to 2008.[1][2] Wright was the first woman to be hired by Columbia as an assistant professor of history.[3] Her work centers on the social, ecological, and public health history of Africa.[1][2]
Wright graduated with her bachelor's degree, from Wellesley College in 1957,[4] before moving on to Yale University, where she received her master's degree in 1958. She obtained her Ph.D. from London University in 1966.[1]
Selected publications
- German Missions in Tanganyika, 1891-1941, (Oxford, Clarendon, 1971)[1]
- African Women and the Law: Historical Perspectives, co-edited with Margaret Jean Hay (Boston, 1982)[1][2]
- Women's Health and Apartheid : the Health of Women and Children and the Future of Progressive Primary Health Care in Southern Africa, co-edited with Zena Stein & Jean Scandlyn (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988)[2]
- Strategies of Slaves and Women in East-Central Africa. (New York, Barber, 1993)[1]
Articles and book chapters
- "Life and Technology in Everyday Life: Reflections on the Career of a Master Smelter in Ufipa, Tanzania," Journal of African Cultural Studies, 15/1 (2002)
- "An Old Nationalist in New Nationalist Times: Donald Siwale and the State in Zambia: 1948-1963," Journal of Southern African Studies, 23/2 (1997)
- "Maji Maji: Prophecy & Historiography," in Revealing Prophets: Prophecy in Eastern African History, edited by David Anderson & Douglas H. Johnson (London: James Currey, 1995)
- "Autobiographies, histoires de vie et biographies de femmes africaines: des textes militants," Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines, 28/109 (1988)
- "Tambalika: Perspectives on a Colonial Magistrate in Central Africa," African Affairs, 85 (Jan 1986)
- "Technology, Marriage and Women's Work in the History of Maize-Growers in Mazabuka, Zambia: A Reconnaissance," Journal of Southern African Studies,10 (Oct 1983)[2]
- "Gender, Women, and Power in Africa, 1750 - 1914," chpt. 25 of A Companion to Global Gender History, Second Edition, edited by Teresa A. Meade & Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (2020)[5]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Wright, Marcia". Department of History - Columbia University. November 9, 2016. Retrieved May 14, 2025.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Marcia Wright - AMESA". amesa.library.columbia.edu. Retrieved May 14, 2025.
- ↑ "1967". Department of History - Columbia University. November 13, 2017. Retrieved May 14, 2025.
- ↑ "Alumnae Memorials". Magazine. February 14, 2023. Retrieved May 14, 2025.
- ↑ Wright, Marcia (2020), "Gender, Women, and Power in Africa, 1750–1914", A Companion to Global Gender History, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, pp. 415–430, doi:10.1002/9781119535812.ch25, ISBN 978-1-119-53581-2, retrieved May 14, 2025