Centre College Faculty
Jonathon Earle
Visiting Assistant Professor of HistoryTelephone: 859-238-5941
E-mail: jonathon.earle@centre.edu
Office: Young Hall—227
Jonathon Earle joined Centre's faculty in 2012 as visiting assistant professor of history. After earning undergraduate and graduate degrees in religion and theology, respectively, he completed his doctoral studies in history at the University of Cambridge, where he studied under John M. Lonsdale and Derek R. Peterson. At Cambridge, he facilitated tutorials, lectures and seminars at both the undergraduate and graduate level, teaching on the history of modern Africa and historical methodology. His work has also focused on the development of archives in Uganda and Britain.
Broadly, Earle's research interests are modern African history, African political theologies, African epistemology, global intellectual history and the philosophy of history. Specifically, his work investigates the ways in which social activists use theological ideation and global history to imagine political dissent in colonial Uganda, while offering new approaches to studying the history of religion and politics in the making of the modern world. His recent work has been published in the Dictionary of African Biography (Oxford) and the Journal of Eastern African Studies.
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