Office: 4131 Mosse Humanities Phone: (608) 263-5424 Spring 2010 Office Hours: On Leave E-Mail: bernault@wisc.edu |
Florence Bernault does research on the history of equatorial Africa, and has written extensively on contemporary politics and culture. After a monograph on decolonization in Equatorial Africa, she edited a volume on the history of prisons in Africa, and another on the import of postcolonial studies in France. Her new book in progress seeks to explain why, at the twentieth century’s end, witchcraft constitutes one of the most powerful rhetorics of popular culture in central Africa, and how, in today’s postcolonial world, global notions of power remain grounded in carnal fetishism. Her work has been rewarded by a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001. |