Kathleen Sheldon

Kathleen Sheldon is an independent scholar. She received her Masters in African Studies and her Ph.D. in History at UCLA.

She is part of a team of editors for a discussion network on Portuguese-speaking Africa, H-Luso-Africa, found at https://networks.h-net.org/h-luso-africa. She is a member of the editorial board for the online reference resource, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African Studies, and has contributed to numerous other reference works.

She has published many articles as well as the books listed here, primarily on African women and on Mozambique.

“Women in Africa and Pan-Africanism,” in The Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism, ed. Reiland Rabaka, 330-342 (Routledge, 2020).

“‘Down with Bridewealth!’ The Organization of Mozambican Women Debates Women’s Issues” in Women's Political Communication in Africa: Issues and Perspectives, ed. Sharon Adetutu Omotoso, 9-26 (Springer, 2020).

“Colonialism and Resistance: Protests and National Liberation Movements,” in Holding the World Together: African Women in Changing Perspective, ed. Nwando Achebe and Claire Robertson, 81-100 (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019).

“Finding My Way in African Women’s History,” in Reshaping Women’s History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians, ed. Julie A. Gallagher and Barbara Winslow, 14-27 (University of Illinois Press, 2018).

"Writing about Women: Approaches to a Gendered Perspective in African History," in Writing African History, ed. John Edward Philips, 465-489 (Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2005).

"Creating an Archive of Working Women's Oral Histories in Beira, Mozambique," in Contesting Archives: Finding Women in the Sources, edited by Nupur Chaudhuri, Sherry J. Katz, and Mary Elizabeth Perry, 192-210 (University of Illinois Press, 2010).