Lecturer in History
Joshua Castillo is a lecturer teaching courses in African and Atlantic history. His research focuses on the historical relationship between language, power, and conflict in Central Africa, with a particular focus on the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He has learned and researched in Congo’s four national languages, Lingala, Swahili, Kikongo, and Ciluba, and has conducted multi-sited interdisciplinary historical research across DRC. His research has appeared in History in Africa and the International Journal of African Historical Studies and is forthcoming in The Journal of African History.
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