Kenneth J. Orosz, Ph.D.

Ph.D., Binghamton University
Modern Europe, Imperialism, Africa, Comparative Revolutions, World

Curriculum vitae (.pdf)

Recent Publications

Books

Religious Conflict and the Evolution of Language Policy in German and French Cameroon, 1885-1939 (New York:  Peter Lang, 2008). Winner of the Heggoy Book Prize, French Colonial Historical Society, 2009.
 
Edited Works

French Colonial History, 20 (2021).
French Colonial History, 19 (2020).
French Colonial History, 18 (2019).
French Colonial History, 17 (2017).

Journal Articles

“The Dwarf, the Goetzen, and C. S. Forester’s African Queen: A Reassessment of Naval Operations in WW I Africa,” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 44, no. 4 (2016): 592-621.  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03086534.2016.1193991.

“Njoya’s Alphabet:  The Sultan of Bamum and French Colonial Reactions to the A ka u ku Script," Cahiers d’études africaines LV (1), no.  217 (2015): 45-66.

“An African Kulturkampf:  Religious Conflict and Language Policy in German Cameroon, 1885-1914,” Sociolinguistica 25 (December 2011):  81-93.

Book Chapters

“Literature (Africa)” in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2019-03-28. DOI: 10.15463/ie1418.11356.

“Propaganda in the Colonies (Africa)” in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2017-02-21. DOI: 10.15463/ie1418.11056.

"For God and Country:  Missionary Service in Colonial Africa during the Great War."  In:  Andrew Jarboe and Richard Fogarty (eds) Empires in the First World War (London:  I.B. Tauris, 2014), 249-281.

“The ‘Catechist War’ in Inter-war French Cameroon,” In: Owen White and J. P. Daughton (eds.) In God’s Empire: French Missionaries and the Modern World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012) 233–255.

“Anti-Clericalism and French Language Policy in Cameroon 1923-1939, In: Martin Thomas (ed) Mental Maps of Empire and Colonial Encounters, vol. 1 of The French Colonial Mind (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012), 121-143.

“Colonialism and the Simplification of Language: Germany’s Kolonial-Deutsch Experiment, In: Michael Perraudin and Jürgen Zimmerer (eds.) German Colonialism and National Identity (New York: Routledge, 2011), 101-114.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate
HIS 117 20th Century Europe
HIS 230 World Civilizations I
HIS 231 World Civilizations II
HIS 300 Research and Writing Seminar
HIS 306 Africa to 1800
HIS 337 Africa Since 1800
HIS 351 Modern France
HIS 359 Germany and Central Europe, 1618-1918
HIS 367 Modern Britain
HIS 400 Comparative Revolutions
HIS 440 The Holocaust
HIS 465 European Imperialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Graduate
HIS 617 European Imperialism and Colonialism
HIS 640 European Women's History
HIS 645 Gender, Sexuality, and Imperialism