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Professor Newbury teaches and writes on the History of Africa and on Environmental History. Much of his research, which focuses on Central Africa, has explored issues of how human agency and the natural world interact, asking both how cultures adapt to the natural world, and how historical processes affect that environmental context. Several of his projects addressed such questions directly: one project examined the effects of a devastating famine in eastern Rwanda in the late 1920s; another looked at the social transformations to result from changes in the material basis of a society in the equatorial forest, from the 1930s to the 1980s; a third looked at ecological factors in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
He teaches a variety of courses on African history; included among them are a course on Imperialism and Ecology in African History; and one on Famine in Historical Perspective.
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