Kenneth Orosz
Kenneth J. Orosz
Associate Professor
(716) 878-3203
Campus Address: Classroom Building C230
oroszkj@buffalostate.edu
Ph.D., Binghamton University
Modern Europe, Imperialism, Africa, Comparative Revolutions, World
Publications
Books
Religious Conflict and the Evolution of Language Policy in German and French Cameroon, 1885-1939 (New York: Peter Lang, 2008). Winner of the Heggoy Book Prize, French Colonial Historical Society, 2009.
Book Chapters
“The ‘Catechist War’ in Inter-war French Cameroon,” In: Owen White and J. P. Daughton (eds.) In God’s Empire: French Missionaries and the Modern World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
“Anti-Clericalism and French Language Policy in Cameroon 1923-1939, In: Martin Thomas (ed) Mental Maps of Empire and Colonial Encounters, vol. 1 of The French Colonial Mind (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012), 121-143.
“Colonialism and the Simplification of Language: Germany’s Kolonial-Deutsch Experiment, In: Michael Perraudin and Jürgen Zimmerer (eds.) German Colonialism and National Identity (New York: Routledge, 2011), 101-114.
“Emigration and Colonies In: Peter Stearns (ed) Encyclopedia of European Social History 5 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner and Sons, 2001), 1:489-502.
Journal Articles
“An African Kulturkampf: Religious Conflict and Language Policy in German Cameroon, 1885-1914,” Sociolinguistica 25 (December 2011): 81-93
“The Affaire des Sixas and Catholic Education of Women in French Colonial Cameroon, 1915-1939, French Colonial History 1, no.1 (2002): 33-49.
“Sources for Cameroonian Colonial History in Western Archives and Libraries, African Research and Documentation no. 74 (1997): 1-22.
“Colonial Archives in Cameroon, African Research and Documentation no. 71 (1995): 33-40.
Book Reviews
Amiria Henare, Museums, Anthropology and Imperial Exchange (Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2005) Canadian Journal of History 41 (Winter 2006): 632-634.
Review of Peter A. Schweizer, Survivors on the Gold Coast: the Basel Missionaries in Colonial Ghana 2nd ed. (Accra, Ghana: Smartline Publishing, 2001) African Book Publishing Record 29, no. 4 (2003): 359.
Courses Taught
Undergraduate
Africa to 1800
Africa Since 1800
European Imperialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Modern France
Modern Britain
Germany and Central Europe, 1618-1918
The Holocaust
20th Century Europe
World Civilizations II
Research and Writing Seminar
Graduate
European Imperialism and Colonialism
Gender, Sexuality, and Imperialism
Comparative Revolutions
