{"id":15301,"date":"2024-09-30T11:57:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T09:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging-v2.kulturwissenschaften.de\/?post_type=person&#038;p=15301"},"modified":"2025-11-07T15:51:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T14:51:38","slug":"dr-opolot-okia","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/person\/dr-opolot-okia\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Opolot Okia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Academic Career<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since 2009<br \/>\nProfessor, Wright State University<\/p>\n<p>2012-2016<br \/>\nDirector, African African American Studies Program, Wright State University<\/p>\n<p>2007 to 2009<br \/>\nVisiting Lecturer, Fulbright Scholar, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya, Department of History and Government<\/p>\n<p>2005 to 2007<br \/>\nAssistant Professor, Winthrop University, Department of History<\/p>\n<p>2002<br \/>\nPh.D. Modern African History, West Virginia University<\/p>\n<p>2001 to 2005<br \/>\n<i>Lecturer, <\/i><i>University of Tennessee , <\/i>Program in African Studies and Department of History.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Research Interests\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>forced labor<\/li>\n<li>colonialism<\/li>\n<li>African history<\/li>\n<li>slavery<\/li>\n<li>traditional collective labor<\/li>\n<li>global labor history<\/li>\n<li>transportation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Publications (Selection)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scholarly Books<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Labor in Colonial Kenya after the Forced Labor Convention, 1930-1963 \u00a0<\/i><i>(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Communal Labor in Colonial Kenya: The Legitimization of Coercion, 1912-1930 \u00a0<\/i>(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Refereed Journal Articles<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cVirtual Abolition: The Economic Lattice of <i>Luwalo <\/i>Forced Labor in the Uganda Protectorate\u201d, <i>African Economic History, <\/i>Vol. 45, No. 2 (2017)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Role of the Police in the Post Election Violence in Kenya, 2007\/08, <i>Journal of Third World Studies, <\/i>Vol. 28, No. 2 Fall (2011), 259-275<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Northey Forced Labor Crisis: A Symptomatic Reading\u201d, <i>International Journal African Historical Studies , <\/i>Vol. 41, No<i>. <\/i>2 (2008), 95-123<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIn the Interests of Community: Archdeacon Walter Owen and The Issue of Communal Forced Labor in Kenya, 1921-1930\u201d , <i>Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, <\/i>Vol. 32, No. 1 January (2004), 19-40<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":15962,"template":"","person_category":[288,699],"class_list":["post-15301","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","person_category-alumni","person_category-cohort-9-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/15301","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\/15962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"person_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_category?post=15301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}