Martin S. Shanguhyia

• 2024 Spring
  • HST 122 Global History 1750 to Present
• 2023 Fall
  • HST 309 Africa and Global Affairs 1870 - Present
  • HST 213 Africa: Ancient Times to 1800
  • HST 122 Global History 1750 to Present
  • HST 300 Selected Topics - Development in Modern Africa
• 2023 Summer
  • HST 122 Global History 1750 to Present
• 2023 Spring
  • HST 309 Africa and Global Affairs 1870 - Present
  • HST 122 Global History 1750 to Present
  • HST 214 Modern Africa: 1800 - Present
• 2022 Fall
  • HST 213 Africa: Ancient Times to 1800
• 2022 Spring
  • HST 401 Senior Seminar - Development & Environment

Martin S. Shanguhyia’s research focuses on colonial and postcolonial Africa, with a specific concentration on Eastern Africa. Of interest to him is the intersection between environment and state and community interests. What are the outcomes when these interests clash? How do states and African communities use critical environmental resources to fend off competition while hedging their interests? Shanguhyia also likes to interrogate how regulation of the natural environment shapes economic and social relations between the state and local communities.

He has published "Population, Tradition & Environmental Control in Colonial Kenya, 1920-1963" (University of Rochester Press, December 2015). Shanguhyia has also co-edited (with Toyin Falola) "The Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). His current research project analyzes colonial administration of Kenya’s northwestern borderlands, especially the regulation of mobilities and their impact on inter-ethnic relations. 

• Books
  • Shanguhyia, M., Falola, T., Development in Modern Africa: Past and Present Perspectives. Routledge, 2020.
  • Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History. Shanguhyia, M., Falola, T. (eds.) Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
  • Shanguhyia, M., Population, Tradition & Environmental Control in Colonial Kenya, 1920-1963. University of Rochester Press, 2015.
• Journal Articles
  • Shanguhyia, M., "Insecure borderlands, marginalization, and local perceptions of the state in Turkana, Kenya, circa 1920–2014." Journal of East African Studies, 2021.
  • Shanguhyia, M., "The Local Native Council, Economic Imperatives, and Colonial Forest Preservation in Western Kenya, c. 1900–1950." African Economic History, 2021.
  • Shanguhyia, M., "Squatters, Access to Land, and Production of National Narratives in Post-Colonial Kenya." Canadian Journal of African Studies, 2021.
  • Shanguhyia, M., "Integrating African Traditions in Environmental Control in Western Kenya: Contradictions and Failure in Colonial Policy, 1920-1963." International Journal of African Historical Studies, 2016.
  • Shanguhyia, M., "British War-Effort Programme and the Making of the Land Degradation Narrative in Colonial Western Kenya." Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 2015.
• Book Chapters
  • Shanguhyia, M. S., "Colonial Agricultural Development." In Chapter in Wanjala S. Nasong'o, Maurice N. Amutabi, and Toyin Falola, eds., The Palgrave Handbook of Kenyan History. Palgrave McMillan, 2023.
  • Shanguhyia, M. S., "The Environment Under Colonialism." In A book chapter in Wanjala S. Nasong'o, Maurice N. Amutabi, and Toyin Falola, eds., The Palgrave Handbook of Kenyan History, (Palgrave McMillan, 2023). Palgrave McMillan, 2023.
  • Shanguhyia, M., "Economic and Material basis of Wildlife Preservation in Early Colonial East Africa." In Power, Political Economy, and Historical Landscapes of the Modern World. DeCorse, C. R. (ed.) Fernand Braudel Center, Studies in Historical Social Science, SUNY Press, 2019.
  • "Colonialism and the African Environment." In Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History. Shanguhyia, M., Falola, T. (eds.) Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
  • Shanguhyia, M., "Ethnicity, Colonial Expediency, and Development of Retail Business in Colonial Turkana, Northwestern Kenya, 1920-1950." In Entrepreneurship in Africa: A Historical Approach. Ochonu, M. E. (ed.) Indiana University Press, 2018.
  • Shanguhyia, M., "Land Reforms, Landlessness and Poverty in Kenya: The Post-colonial Experience." In Poverty Reduction Strategies in Africa. Odugbo Odey, M., Falola, T. (eds.) Routledge, 2017.
  • Shanguhyia, M., "In Search of a Political Identity: The Historical Basis of Understanding Zanzibar’s Post-Colonial Dilemma." In The Roots of Ethnic Conflict in Africa: From Grievance to Violence. Nasong'o, S. S. (ed.) Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
• Book Reviews
  • Shanguhyia, M., "Histories of Development in Africa Review." In African Studies Review. , 2022.
  • Shanguhyia, M., "Jacob S. Dlamini, Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2020)." In Journal of African History. , 2022.
  • Shanguhyia, M., "Ulrike Kirchberger and Brett M. Bennet, eds., Environments of Empire: Networks and Agents of Ecological Change (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020)." In The English Historical Review. , 2022.
  • Shanguhyia, M., "Julie MacArthur, ed., Dedan Kimathi on Trial: Colonial and Popular Memory in Kenya's Mau Mau Rebellion (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2017)." In African Studies Review. , 2019.
  • Shanguhyia, M., "Daniel Branch, Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya: Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)." In H-Net Africa. , 2010.
• Encyclopedia Entries
  • Shanguhyia, M., "Mauritius." In Africa: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society. Falola, T., Jean-Jacques, D. (eds.) ABC-CLIO, 2016.
  • Shanguhyia, M., "Elijah Masinde." In Dictionary of African Biography. Akyeampong, E. K., Gates Jr, H. L. (eds.) Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • Shanguhyia, M., "Leopold II." In Slavery in the Modern World : A History of Political, Social, and Economic Oppression. Rodriguez, J. P. (ed.) ABC-CLIO, 2011.
  • Shanguhyia, M., "Tippu Tip." In Slavery in the Modern World : A History of Political, Social, and Economic Oppression. Rodriguez, J. P. (ed.) ABC-CLIO, 2011.
  • Shanguhyia, M., "East African Cooperation." In The Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora. Davis, C. B. (ed.) ABC-CLIO, 2008.
• Policy Research Paper
  • Shanguhyia, M., "Past and Current Initiatives in Managing Trans-Border Insecurity in Kenya’s Turkana Borderlands: Implications for Future Policy." In Policy Paper. International Development and Research Center and Practical Action Eastern Africa, 2014.

Post-doctoral Fellows Workshop, Carter Woodson Institute, University of Virginia, Charlotteville, "Discussant on James Parker’s 'Permeable Boundaries: Development and the Continuity of Resource Sharing in the Northern Frontier of Kenya'" (November 17, 2021)

I was invited by the Institute for African Development at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University, as part of their annual, weekly seminar presentations, "A community’s view of the roles of colonial and postcolonial states in alleviating cross- Border violence and human insecurity: the case of the Turkana of northwestern Kenya, circa 1920 to the present" (February 20, 2020)

African Studies Association Annual Meeting, "African Agency, Control Crisis, and the Quest for Ecological ‘Order’ in Colonial Western Kenya" (November 21, 2019)

60th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, "The Past and Present of Land Access in Africa" (November 16, 2017 - November 18, 2017)

Colloquium on the theme Power, Political Economy, and Historical Landscapes of the Modern World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, SUNY Binghamton University, "Taming Nature: The Political Economy of Wildlife Conservation in Early Colonial East Africa" (April 29, 2017)

Assistant Professor of History (Africa, Pre-colonial, Colonial, Postcolonial) Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University 2010 to the Present

Visiting Assistant Professor College of William and Mary, Williamsburg VA, Lyon Tyler Department of History, 2009-2010

Visiting Assistant Professor Ohio State University, Columbus OH, Department of African American and African Studies, 2008-2009