Princeton University

Emmanuel Kreike, a citizen of the Netherlands, has a Ph.D. in history from Yale University (1996) and is completing a Dr. Science in Tropical Forestry/Environmental Sciences at Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands. His research and teaching interests focus on the intersection of war/violence/population movements, environment, and society. He is particularly interested in how violence (including, for example, colonial conquest, the apartheid wars, slave raiding) and ensuing forced migration led to the destruction of human landscapes and how people rebuild lives and livelihoods in often alien environments. He has taught courses in African history and environmental history at Princeton University as well as courses in forestry and environmental sciences in Namibia and South Africa.

His book Recreating Oshilongo: Colonial Conquest and Socio-Environmental Destruction and Reconstruction in Angola and Namibia, 1890-1960 is forthcoming by Heinemann. The book manuscript Paradigms and Paradoxes of Environmental Change: Deforestation and Reforestation in North Central Namibia, based on his Dr. Sc. thesis, will be published by Wageningen University.

Emmanuel Kreike is currently researching the impact of the apartheid wars on southern Africa's environment and rural society from a transnational and comparative perspective. The project is based on field and archival research in Mozambique and South Africa (in 1996 and 1999-2000) and Namibia (1991-1993, 2000). He hopes to return to Angola in 2004-2005 to complete the research.
Further information on this research can be found through the following links:

Talk: Podcast
Presentation: PDF
Online article about presentation: Beyond Words: Environmental History, Digitization, and GIS
Animation: kreik20.mov
(Quicktime movie incorporating Quickbird image from Digital Globe and globe image from ESRI)

Education

• 1982 Kandidaats (B.A.), History, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• 1986 Dokterandus (M.A.), Department of History, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• 1986-1988 M.A., Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles.
• 1987-1988 Exchange Scholar, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley.
• 1990 M. Phil., History Department, Yale University.
• 1990-1991 Department of Forestry, Wageningen Agricultural University.
• 1996 Ph.D., History Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
• 2003 Dr. Sc. (expected), Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen Agricultural University, the Netherlands.