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Abigail Meert

Abigail Meert

Email: ameert@albion.edu

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Assistant Professor of History

Africa and the Global South

On leave 2024-2025 academic year

Education
  • 2019 Ph.D., Emory University (History)
  • 2017 M.A., Emory University (History)
  • 2013 B.A., University of Michigan – Ann Arbor (History and English)
Courses
  • Africa Before 1800
  • Africa After 1800
  • The African Atlantic
  • Gender & Sexuality in African History
  • Women in the Global South
  • The Cold War & Decolonization
Areas of Interest
  • African History
  • Global History
  • Conflict and Society
  • Oral History
  • Memory
Publications

Current Research Projects

  • “From Students to Soldiers: Radical Politics and the Ugandan Exile Community in Dar es Salaam, 1966-1979”
  • “Suffering, Struggle, and the Politics of Legitimacy in Uganda, 1952-1996”

Publications

“Suffering, Consent, and Coercion in Uganda: The Luwero War, 1981-1986,” International Journal of African Historical Studies 53, 3 (2020), 389 – 412.

Awards
  • Nielsen Center for the Liberal Arts Fellowship, Eckerd College (2024)
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities (2021)
  • University Research Council Travel Grant, Texas A&M International University (2019)
  • Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, US Department of Education (2016-2017)
  • Mathews Fellowship for Dissertation Research, Emory University (2016)
  • Foreign Language and Area Studies Summer Fellowship, Yale University (2016)
  • Foreign Language and Area Studies Summer Fellowship, University of California-Berkeley (2014)