{"id":12854,"date":"2023-10-04T09:37:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T07:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging-v2.kulturwissenschaften.de\/?post_type=person&#038;p=12854"},"modified":"2025-11-07T14:01:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:01:22","slug":"dr-morgan-robinson-flow","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/person\/dr-morgan-robinson-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Morgan Robinson Flow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Academic Career<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS,<br \/>\nAssistant Professor, Fall 2018 \u2013 Present<\/li>\n<li>Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin<br \/>\nHumboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers<br \/>\nJanuary 2021-July 2022<\/li>\n<li>Princeton University, Princeton, NJ<br \/>\nPhD in History, May 2018<br \/>\nDissertation: \u201cAn Uncommon Standard: A Social and Intellectual History of Swahili, 1864-1925\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Princeton University<br \/>\nMA in History, September 2013<\/li>\n<li>Yale University, New Haven, CT,<br \/>\nBA in History, May 2008<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>African history, East Africa, Tanzania, Zanzibar, language, standardization, history of science, bureaucracy, knowledge production<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>A Language for the World: The Standardization of Swahili<\/em> (Ohio University Press \u201cNew African Histories\u201d Series, November 2022)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhen a Wonder is Not a Wonder: Swahili, Translation, and the Communication of Knowledge,\u201d <em>Isis<\/em> 114, no.2 (June 2023: 233-248).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Idea of the <em>Upelekwa<\/em>: Constructing a Transcontinental Community in Eastern Africa, 1888-1896,\u201d <em>Journal of the History of Ideas<\/em> 81, no.1 (January 2020): 85-106.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBinding Words: Student Biographical Narratives and Religious Conversion,\u201d in Klaas van Walraven (ed.), <em>The Individual in African History: The Importance of Biography in African Historical Studies<\/em> (Brill: Leiden and Boston, 2020).<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLa Belle \u00c9poque from Eastern Africa: An Individual Experience of the \u2018Globalizing\u2019 World, 1898-1918,\u201d<em>Journal of Eastern African Studies <\/em>13, no.4 (November 2019): 584-600.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":13441,"template":"","person_category":[288,668,437],"class_list":["post-12854","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","person_category-alumni","person_category-cohort-7-en","person_category-fellows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/12854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"person_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_category?post=12854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}