Tracing the Itineraries of Working Concepts across African History

Kathryn de Luna () is Assistant Professor of History at Georgetown University. She studies the histories of eastern, central, and southern Africa focusing on the tenth century BCE through the nineteenth century CE and is interested in alternative historical sources. Her first book, Collecting Food, Cultivating People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa, was published in the Agrarian Studies series by Yale University Press in 2016. She is currently working on a project that tracks ideas about and practices of mobility in south central Africa before the fifteenth century.