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, labor and education, neoliberalism
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.