HOLLY ELISABETH HANSON

Assistant Professor of History and African and African-American Studies
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA 01075

Curriculum Vitae

"Queen Mothers and Good Government in Buganda" in Women and Colonial Africa, Jean Allman, Susan Geiger, and Nyakanyike Musisi, eds., Indiana University Press, forthcoming.
"'Mill Girls' and 'Mine Boys': The Cultural Meanings of Migrant Labor" Social History, Vol. 21, No. 2, May 1996.
"'Showing the Land', Survey, and Registration: Mechanisms for Land Transfer in Buganda Fifty Years after the Individualization of Tenure" in Grenville Barnes, ed., Land Tenure and Land Administration in Developing Countries, University of Florida Press, forthcoming.
"Mailo Land and KiGanda Culture: The Butaka Controversy of the 1920s"; submitted to Journal of the Uganda Society, 1995.
"The Power of Personal Example in Overcoming Racism", Arun Gandhi, ed., World Without Violence: Can Gandhi's Vision Become Reality? (New Delhi, 1994).

"King for a Day: How Ganda Chiefs Used Captain Lugard to End Civil War in 1892" African Studies Association Annual Meeting, November, 1997.
Panel Chairperson, "The Dynamics of Multiple and Over-lapping Land Tenure Systems: Challenges and Opportunities", also presented, "'Ours When the Miles Came': The Social Logic of Land in Buganda, 1890-1950", African Studies Association Annual Meeting, November 1996.
"'Showing the Land', Survey, and Registration: Mechanisms for Land Transfer in Buganda Fifty Years after the Individualization of Tenure", International Conference of Land Tenure and Administration, November 1996.
"Reconfiguring the Social Order: the Moral Uses of Land in Buganda, 1900-1927", African Studies Association Annual Meeting, November 1994.

"Nnakyeyombekedde - Women Who Have Quarreled and Live Without Men: the Gendered Consequences of Individual Land Ownership in Buganda, 1880-1940" Center For Women's Studies and Gender Research Colloquium, University of Florida, October, 1996.
"Skulls as Land Title: Land Tenure Change and Social Upheaval in Buganda", Department of History Faculty Colloquium, University of Florida, March, 1996.
"Mailo Land and KiGanda Culture: The Butaka Controversy of the 1920s"; Lecture to the Uganda Society, Kampala, Uganda, July, 1995.
"The Moral Meaning of Mailo", Center for Basic Research Colloquium, Kampala, Uganda, June, 1995.
"Individual Land Tenure and Social Change in Buganda: Research in Progress", Presentation to the Makerere Institute of Social Research and the Makerere University Department of Women's Studies, Kampala, Uganda, May 1995.
"The Uses of the Past in the Politics of the Present: Observations on Attending the Coronation of Kabaka Ronald Mutebi II", Baraza of the Center for African Studies, University of Florida, February 1994.