Carissa Chew (MA, MPhil, MA)

Thesis title: Decolonisation and Black/South Asian mixed-race identity in East Africa, 1940-1980

Biography

Qualifications

MA in History, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Dissertation: "British colonial constructions of the 'half-caste' category in world-historical perspective"

MPhil in World History, University of Cambridge 

Dissertation: "Conversation and controversy about people of mixed Black African and South Asian heritage in East Africa and beyond, c.1880-present"

MA (Hons) in English Literature & History, University of Edinburgh, First Class

Dissertation: "Bloodsuckers in the East African imagination: rumour and ‘othering’ in twentieth century Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda"

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