Join us on June 14 following the performance for a scholar social with Katherine Luongo.

Katherine Luongo is Associate Professor of History at Northeastern University. She is the author of Witchcraft and Colonial Rule in Kenya: 1900-1955(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011) and co-author, with Matthew Carotenuto, of Obama and Kenya: Contested Histories and the Politics of Belonging (Athens [OH]: Ohio University Press, 2016).She is currently completing Border-Crossing Beliefs: African Witchcraft in the Arena of Asylum, a book-length study thatinvestigates the persistence of witchcraft-driven violence across Africa from the related standpoints of legal anthropology and legal history and migration and human rights studies.Her newest book project, tentatively titled A History of Human Rights in Kenya, examines the legal history of Kenya from the 1960s to 2002.