Richard J. Reid

Richard J. Reid is a historian of modern Africa, with a focus on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with particular interests in the culture and practice of warfare in the modern period, and has focused on the transformations in violence in the late precolonial period (the nineteenth century), as well as on more recent armed insurgencies, especially those between the 1950s and the 1980s. He has also worked on historical culture and memory, especially around trauma and upheaval, and one strand of my research involves an exploration of how the ‘precolonial’ is perceived and understood in modern Africa (as well as in modern Europe). His primary research is on East and Northeast Africa, including Uganda and the Great Lakes region, Ethiopia, and Eritrea.