Nancy Rose Hunt
Nancy Rose Hunt is studying valences of madness in Africa, notably in Bukavu, Congo's border city with Rwanda (with six months of 2019 field work) and also a spell in Agadez, Niger in 2018. She is known for her previous work in anthropological history in Congo and two prize-winning books, A Nervous State and A Colonial Lexicon. With Achille Mbembe, she co-edits the Duke University Press book series, Theory in Forms. For 19 years, as professor in history at the University of Michigan she shaped the joint PhD program in Anthropology & History. She left Ann Arbor in 2016 for the Deep South and now teaches medical and psychiatric history and historiography at the University of Florida.
