Ph.D., Yale University
M.Litt., Edinburgh University
B.A., Goucher College

Professor Wylie is affiliated with Boston University's African Studies Center. She has published on eastern and southern African history as well as the history of the British empire, including A Little God, The Twilight of Patriarchy in a Southern African Chiefdom (1990), Starving on a Full Stomach: Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa (2001, named Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 2002, and winner of the Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association, 2002) and Art + Revolution, The Life and Death of Thami Mnyele, South African Artist (2008). She has lived and worked in six African countries: Kenya, Algeria, Ghana, Morocco, Botswana, and South Africa. Before arriving at Boston University, she taught at Yale University, Mount Holyoke College, Vassar College, and the University of Oran, Algeria. In 2002 she won Boston University's Metcalf Prize for Excellence in Teaching. In 2008, she was named NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor of the Humanities.