Dr. Christian Ambler Williams

Profil

Derzeitige StellungProfessor W-2 und Äquivalente
FachgebietAfrikanistik,Weitere Geschichtswissenschaften
Keywordsfaith, liberation movement, biography, exile, refugees

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandSüdafrika
OrtBloemfontein
Universität/InstitutionUniversity of the Free State (UFS)
Institut/AbteilungDepartment of Anthropology

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Gregor DoblerInstitut für Ethnologie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg
Prof. Dr. Leila KoivunenDepartment of History, Cultural History, University of Turku, Turku
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.10.2019

Programm(e)

2019Humboldt-Forschungsstipendien-Programm für erfahrene Forschende

Publikationen (Auswahl)

2025Christian Williams Christian Faith and Namibian Liberation: An Ethnographic Biography of Salatiel Ailonga. James Currey, 2025
2024Christian Williams Liberation Movement Camps in Southern Africa. The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Oxford University Press, 2024.
2024Christian Williams SWAPO’s 1976 Crisis and Nordic Transnational Solidarities: The Ailongas’ Detainee Letters. In: Leila Koivunen and Raita Merivirta, Colonial Aspects of Finnish-Namibian Relations (1870–1990). Finnish Literature Society, 2024. 171-184
2021Christian Williams Defining and Aiding ‘the Namibian Refugee’: A History of the Chaplaincy to Namibians in Exile, 1974-76. In: Canadian Journal of African Studies, 55, 2021, 543-561
2020Christian Williams African Refugee History. In: African Studies Review, 63, 2020, 560-567
2020Christian Williams Dissident Refugees: A History of 200 Namibians in Zambia, 1977-89. In: Journal of Southern African Studies, 46, 2020, 863-879
2020Christian Williams Nationalism in Namibia (Scholarly Review Essay). In: African Studies Review, 63, 2020, 927-937
2020Christian Williams SWAPO’s Struggle Children and Exile Home-Making: The Refugee Biography of Mawazo Nakadhilu. In: African Studies Review, 63, 2020, 593-615
2015Christian Williams National Liberation in Postcolonial Southern Africa: A Historical Ethnography of SWAPO’s Exile Camps. Cambridge University Press, 2015
2003Christian Williams Remembering St. Therese. Out of Africa Press, 2003