Miles Larmer

 

Miles Larmer

Professor of African History, University of Oxford

Miles Larmer

Panel speaker at the Social Sciences Oxford Minds lecture series on the topic of Identity.

Miles Larmer is a Professor of African History and a Fellow of St Antony's College. He has published extensively on the political and social history of southern-central Africa in general and Zambia in particular, focusing on African nationalism, labour and social movements, and the relationship between mining and political change. His published work includes The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa: Fighting Their Way Home (Indiana University Press, 2016) and the forthcoming Living for the City: Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt (Cambridge University Press, 2021). He previously worked for a number of non-governmental organisations, including Save the Children.