"Telling the History of Others", the Roger Howell Jr. Professor of History Inaugural Lecture by David Gordon
David M. Gordon is the author and editor of numerous publications on indigenous knowledge, apartheid, economy, society, and the environment in Africa, including his book, Invisible Agents: Spirits in a Central African History (Ohio University Press, 2012). Professor Gordon’s research and teaching focus on the history of southern and central Africa over the last two centuries, including Atlantic and Indian Ocean trading networks; British, Portuguese, and Belgian colonialism; apartheid; spiritual agency; and the historical imagination.