Katie Carline

Historian of religion/gender/cities in South Africa and beyond
(she/her/hers)

[Katie Carline @KatCarline]

My article on tea, consumer culture, and Eastern Cape home improvement societies is published online today @JAH_editors! Thanks to the many who read and gave advice on this dissertation side-project over many years, including but not limited to @_futbolprof @ramyasway and @pclimb

[The Journal of African History @JAH_editors]

Read ‘Wise Mothers and Wise Buyers: Marketing Tea and Home Improvement in 1930s #SouthAfrica by @KatCarline from out forthcoming issue (63/3). Available #OpenAccess on #FirstView: https://t.co/jXggaFA7fG. #AfricanHistory @MSU_HistoryDept @MSUAfrica

[Dr. Kate Law @drkatelaw]

Funded writing workshop @UFSweb by @BritishAcademy_ for historians located in the Global South who work on Southern African history. More info including eligibility and how to apply: https://t.co/dWDsALIQOm
Please share!

[Laura Evans @DrLauraKEvans]

30 years ago today, in the midst of South Africa's transition to democracy, the Ciskei homeland defence force opened fire on unarmed demonstrators, killing 29 people and injuring more than 200.

[Katie Carline @KatCarline]

@kesheldon52 @drDendere @BelindaJDodson @lorenlandau Thanks very much for the leads!

[Katie Carline @KatCarline]

Fascinating! Now I realize how much more I need to learn about the history of trade and entrepreneurship in SA!

[Chipo Dendere @drDendere]

On SA/Zim human movement. I have been lucky that my mom and her zim / sa friends most in their 60/70s now have sat with me to talk about this. My mom was a trader from the 70s traveling by bus from Harare to sell all over SA getting as far as Capetown. Women like her have seen

[Bayt Al Fann @BaytAlFann]

In 1807, Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar, was stolen from Senegal & sold into slavery in America. He left behind an autobiography written in Arabic.

To mark the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & its Abolition, a thread on the remarkable story of Omar…

[Katie Carline @KatCarline]

And also, the decline in pre-1800 topics is 4 percent. Just 4. Honestly, looks to me like an achievement on the part of scholars of premodern history in the face of budget cuts.

[Katie Carline @KatCarline]

@Amy_Fallas Believing that every day is your birthday (with its associated birthday presents). Presentism is a condition well known to parents of toddlers who have recently had a birthday.

[Katie Carline @KatCarline]

@ramyasway sediment? Transport? This one’s for you

[Katie Carline @KatCarline]

Dear Halifax: I’m looking at you

[nathalie graham @gramsofgnats]

look, I’m not anti-dog, but I’ve got a bone to pick with dog owners in this city assuming everyone enjoys their unleashed dogs at every public space

[nathalie graham @gramsofgnats]

look, I’m not anti-dog, but I’ve got a bone to pick with dog owners in this city assuming everyone enjoys their unleashed dogs at every public space

[Canadian Journal of African Studies @CJAS_RCEA]

We're pleased to have published this fascinating article - winner of last year's Fraser Taylor Prize, awarded to the best graduate student paper presented at the @CAAS_ACEA annual conference.
Congratulations again @KatCarline

[Katie Carline @KatCarline]

My article for @CJAS_RCEA is now available online! Histories of traveling told by oomama bomthandazo (women's prayer groups) show how ordinary commuters negotiated and shaped public transportation in apartheid South Africa
https://t.co/Jm4UG6I999

[Katie Carline @KatCarline]

@Adam_Coldren @PhDVoice My approach has been slightly different: you can’t read everything but if you don’t read it in the archive you’ll never find time later. So my approach: take notes on things of general interest, transcribe passages, only photograph the crucial things

[Katie Carline @KatCarline]

@Whit_Bayyb @LansingMIFacts So glad this pool is finally getting the attention it deserves! When I lived in one of the houses on Lasalle, behind it, I would occasionally sneak across the fence at night for a swim.

[Katie Carline @KatCarline]

@ramyasway I think you’ll appreciate this one

[afua cooper @afuacooper]

The Writers Federation of NS has put out its Black History Month reading list...and here it is! Happy and proud to make the list.
https://t.co/px70tfOMhz

[Zikhona Valela @valavoosh]

On 17 January 1977, 45 years ago, the inquest into the death of Mapetla Mohapi began at the Magistrate Court in Qonce (then King William's Town. In 8 Thursdays from now, on 31 March 2022, the story of this Black Consciousness martyr will be available for you to purchase and read.