History Department Faculty
Priya Lal
Associate Professor
Priya Lal
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall S351
Telephone: 617-552-3878
Email: priya.lal@bc.edu
Education
- B.A., Columbia University
- Ph.D., New York University
Research Interests
Modern African history, with a focus on East Africa; decolonization and nationalism; development; African socialism; gender
Department
Selected Publications
“Decolonization and the Gendered Politics of Developmental Labor in Southeastern Africa,” in Stephen Macekura and Erez Manela, eds., The Development Century: A Global History, 173–196. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
"Tanzanian Ujamaa in a World of Peripheral Socialisms,” in Martin Klimke, et al., eds., Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties, 367–380. New York: Routledge, 2018.
“Villagization and the Ambivalent Production of Rural Space in Tanzania,” in Andrea Fischer-Tahir and Sophie Wagenhofer, eds., Disciplinary Spaces: Spatial Control, Forced Assimilation and Narratives of Progress since the 19th Century, 119–136. Berlin: Transcript Verlag, 2017.
African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania: Between the Village and the World (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
“African Socialism and the Limits of Global Familyhood: Tanzania and the New International Economic Order in Sub-Saharan Africa,” Humanity 6, 1 (2015) 17-31.
“Maoism in Tanzania: Material Connections and Shared Imaginaries,” in Alexander Cook, ed., Mao’s Little Red Book: A Global History, 96–116. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
“Self-Reliance and the State: The Multiple Meanings of Development in Early Post-Colonial Tanzania,” Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 82, 2 (2012) 212–234.
“Militants, Mothers, and the National Family: Ujamaa, Gender, and Rural Development in Postcolonial Tanzania,” Journal of African History 51, 1 (2010) 1–20.