LUCAS Seminar: Cherry Leonardi 'A history of victimisation? Nation-building narrative and the challenges of history in South Sudan'

Dr Cherry Leonardi is a lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Durham.She specialises in African history with a particular research focus on South Sudan. She is currently writing a book on the history of chiefs in South Sudan since the mid-nineteenth century, the result of a doctoral and postdoctoral research project funded by the AHRC, the Leverhulme Trust, the British Institute in Eastern Africa and the British Academy. In 2010 she held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship and in 2009-10 she was the lead researcher and author of a report on local justice in South Sudan for the US Institute of Peace and the Rift Valley Institute. Her current and forthcoming research focuses on the dynamics of boundaries and borderlands in Sudan, particularly in relation to pastoralism.