Wilkinson, Conor

Field: Africa; Advisor: Stephens; Year: 2017

Conor Wilkinson is a PhD candidate in African History. His dissertation uses diverse ethnolinguistic and ecological data to reconstruct the history of human-plant-insect relationships in Africa's Great Lakes Region over the last several millennia. Weaving together local place-based cosmologies and burgeoning inter-species scholarship, his work offers a deep-time history of social composition and differentiation among both human and non-human inhabitants of Equatorial Africa. His research is grounded primarily in the area between Lake Victoria and the Kivu Rift, a region that straddles contemporary Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and DR Congo. Beyond this region, he researches and teaches the history of the continent from the birth of humanity to the present, world history, environmental history, and the global history of science and technology. Since 2022 he has been Lecturer in History at Huron University in London, Ontario, and in 2024 took up the same role at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

Education

MA/MPhil, African History, Columbia University

MA, History, University of British Columbia

BA, History & Geography, Huron University College