PhD Students

Successfully supervising PhD students has been one of my proudest professional achievements. Below is a list of my former students along with links to their publications.

I have also regularly act as a PhD examiner and have examined doctoral theses at universities in the Netherlands, South Africa and Australia.

Saima Nakuti Ndahangwapo: ‘Contested Sovereignty: International Diplomacy and the Role of Natural Resources in Namibian Decolonisation’.

Defending the Investment. Rössing Uranium and the Business of Decolonisation in Namibia (Basler Afrika, 2025).

‘“Follow the Yellowcake Road”: Historical Geographies of Namibian Uranium from the Rössing Mine‘, Historical Social Research 49, 1 (2024): 32-54.

‘Technical and Vocational Education and the Place of Indigenous Labour in the Mining Industry of Namibia, 1970–1990‘, Journal of Southern African Studies 47, 1 (2021): 127-142.

Chibamba Jennifer Chansa: ‘State, Mining Companies and Communities: A History of Environmental Pollution in Zambia, 1964 to the present’.

‘Sixty Years Since Zambia’s Independence: Revisiting Scholarship on the Struggle Against Colonialism‘, South African Historical Journal (2025): 1-5.

‘The Politics of Mining Pollution in Zambia: Investigating 100 Years of Environmental Management on the Copperbelt‘, in James Ogude and Tafadzwa Mushonga (eds.), Environmental Humanities of Extraction in Africa: Poetics and Politics of Exploitation (London: Routledge, 2022).

‘Houses Built on Copper: The Environmental Impact of Current Mining Activities on ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Zambian Copperbelt Communities‘, in Miles Larmer et al. (eds.) Across the Copperbelt: Urban & Social Change in Central Africa’s Borderland Communities (James Currey: Woodbridge, 2021), 233-263.

Hyden Munene: ‘A History of Rhokana Corporation and its Nkana Mine Division, 1928-1991’.

Copper King in Central Africa: Corporate Organization, Labor Relations, and Profitability of Zambia’s Rhokana Corporation (Rowan & Littlefield, 2022).

‘Viability and Profitability of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)’s Copperbelt Mining Companies During the Great Depression, 1929–1939‘, Southern Journal for Contemporary History 46, 1 (2022).

‘Profitability and Nationalisation on the Zambian Copperbelt: A Case Study of Rhokana Corporation’s Nkana Mine, 1964–1969‘, African Economic History 48, 2 (2020): 37-66.

‘Mining the Past: A Report of Four Archival Repositories in Zambia‘, History in Africa 47 (2020): 359-373.

Mbozi Santebe: ‘A History of the Central Statistical Office of Zambia and its Role in the Production of Statistics’.

‘Suppressed data: The controversy on Lynn Saffery’s enquiry into African living conditions on the Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt, 1942-1945‘, Historia 70, 2 (2025): 23-46.

‘Sources of Official Poverty Data: Reflections on Sixty Years of the Production of Statistics on Poverty in Zambia, 1964-2024‘, Zambia Journal of History 11, 1 (2025): 1-23.

‘Combatting Road Accidents and Fatalities: The Colonial State, Voluntary Organisations, and Road Safety in Northern Rhodesia, 1940s-1964‘, Zamani: A Journal of African Historical Studies 2, 1 (2025): 1-28.

Francesca Pugliese: ‘Workplace regime and the transformation of subjectivity. An ethnographic approach among miners in the Copperbelt Region’.

‘Safety: The Politics of Life in a Neoliberal Labour Regime‘ in Inside Mining Capitalism: The micropolitics of work on the Congolese and Zambian copperbelts (James Currey, 2021), 55-70.

‘Gender: Navigating a Male-Dominated Space‘ in Inside Mining Capitalism: The micropolitics of work on the Congolese and Zambian copperbelts (James Currey, 2021), 71-88.

‘Mining companies and gender(ed) policies: The women of the Congolese Copperbelt, past and present‘, The Extractive Industries and Society 8, 3 (2021): 100795.