CONTRIBUTOR:

Richard Waller

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor Emeritus

DEPARTMENT:

History and International Relations

INSTITUTION:

Bucknell University

BIOGRAPHY:

Richard Waller was an Associate Professor of History and International Relations at Bucknell University where he taught from 1989 until retirement in 2015. He received his doctorate from Cambridge University in 1979. His research covers East Africa, especially Kenya, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a particular focus on pastoralism. He has published on the Maasai and on the livestock industry in colonial Kenya. He also has a longstanding interest in aspects of colonial criminal and legal history and he is currently writing a book on aspects of crime and the law in colonial Kenya.