{"id":5,"date":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/template-faculty01\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:09:15","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/karen-flint\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Publications<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/muse-jhu-edu.eu1.proxy.openathens.net\/article\/783968\">&#8220;&#8216;Africa isn&#8217;t a testing lab&#8217;: Considering COVID Vaccine Trials in a History of Biomedical Experimentation and Abuse.&#8221;<\/a> <em>Journal of West African History,\u00a0<\/em> Vol 6, 2 (2020), 122-136.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAfrican Women and Health: Evolving Challenges.\u201d In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Holding-World-Together-Changing-Perspective\/dp\/029932110X\"><em>Holding the World Together: African Women in Changing\u00a0Perspective<\/em>,<\/a> eds. Claire Robertson and Nwando Achebe. Madison: Wisconsin Press, 2019.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Compounding Traditions: From \u201cUntraditional\u201d Healers to Modern Bioprospectors of South Africa\u2019s Medicinal Plants.&#8221; In <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sternberg-press.com\/index.php?pageId=1835&amp;l=en&amp;bookId=729&amp;sort=\">Theatrum Botanicum<\/a>, <\/em>eds. Uriel Orlow and Shela Sheikh. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2018.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHealth and Medicine in African History.\u201d\u00a0 In\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Companion-African-History-William-Worger\/dp\/047065631X\"><em>A Companion to African History<\/em><\/a>, eds. William Worger, Charles Ambler, and Nwando Achebe. Hoboken: Blackwell Publishing,\u00a0 2018.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Reinventing &#8216;Traditional&#8217; Medicine in Post-apartheid South Africa.&#8221; In <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohioswallow.com\/book\/Indigenous+Knowledge+and+the+Environment+in+Africa+and+North+America\">Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0Athens: Ohio Press, 2012.<\/li>\n<li>(with Bridget Teboh). &#8220;The Impact of Globalization on Health, Food Security, and Biomedicine in Africa.&#8221;\u00a0 In\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cap-press.com\/books\/isbn\/9781611631586\/Globalization-and-the-African-Experience\">Globalization and the African Experience<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>Durham:\u00a0Carolina Academic Press: 2012.<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohioswallow.com\/9780821418505\/healing-traditions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Healing Traditions: African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa<\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">,<\/span> 1820-1948.<\/em> Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. (Melville J. Herskovits Finalist, 2009)<\/li>\n<li>(with Julie Parle) &#8220;Healers, Witchcraft, and Madness&#8221; in\u00a0<em>Zulu Identities: Being Zulu Past\u00a0and Present.<\/em> Pietermaritzburg:\u00a0University of Natal Press: 2008.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Indian-African Encounters: Polyculturalism &amp; African Therapeutics in Natal, South Africa, 1820-1948.&#8221;<em>\u00a0Journal of Southern African Studies<\/em>. (32.2: June 2006)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Competition, Race and Professionalization: African Healers and White Medical Practitioners in Natal, South Africa in the Early Twentieth Century&#8221; <em>Social History of Medicine\u00a0<\/em>vol. 14. No 2. August 2001.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Oral History Archives<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><em>&#8220;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn-oral-history.charlotte.edu\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Brooklyn Oral History P<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn-oral-history.charlotte.edu\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>roject<\/em><\/a><em>,&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0this is a web-based archive of oral histories regarding urban renewal and Charlotte&#8217;s former Brooklyn (Second Ward) neighborhood. The webpage also includes a brief history, timeline, and bibliography.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.uncc.edu\/food-oral-history\/\">The Queen&#8217;s Garden<\/a><\/em>,&#8221; this archive of oral histories explores the stories of those who grow, cultivate, produce, and distribute fresh food in the greater Charlotte area.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Research Interests<\/h3>\n<p>Southern Africa; Science, Technology and Medicine; Indigenous Knowledges; Public History; Food and Agriculture; and Globalization.<\/p>\n<h3>Courses Taught<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>HIST 1502 Food Fight: The History and Politics of What We Eat.<\/li>\n<li>HIST 2600 Comparative Slaveries in African History<\/li>\n<li>HIST 2211 Modern Africa<\/li>\n<li>HIST 2210 Precolonial Africa<\/li>\n<li>HIST 3003 History of Public Health<\/li>\n<li>HIST 3154 Africa &amp; Globalization<\/li>\n<li>HIST 3155 Ancestors to Antibiotics: Health &amp; Healing in Africa<\/li>\n<li>HIST 4002\/5002 Great Debates in African History<\/li>\n<li>HIST 6000 Oral History and Memory<\/li>\n<li>HIST 6694 Seminar in Historical Writing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Biography<\/h3>\n<h4>Education:<\/h4>\n<p>Ph.D. in History, University of California, Los Angeles, 2001. Post-Baccalaureate in African Studies, University of Cape Town. BA Sociology\/Anthropology, Lawrence University.<\/p>\n<h3>Current Projects<\/h3>\n<p>I am currently working on a book-length project that examines how biomedicine and doctors both empowered and disrupted the system of South African indenture (1860-1911). Biomedicine was used and imagined as a tool of empire and industry, and also subject to the competing visions and responsibilities of various colonial forces, doctors, and the emergent field of public health. I am particularly interested in the international dimensions of this phenomenon, from negotiations between various colonial powers\u2014Britain, India, and Natal\u2014to evolving biomedical understandings of diseases like cholera and hookworm.\u00a0 In particular, I seek to determine the conditions, such as the rise of a public health administration, that emboldened whistle-blowers who nudged reform in a system overwhelmingly stacked in the favor of the rich and powerful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publications &#8220;&#8216;Africa isn&#8217;t a testing lab&#8217;: Considering COVID Vaccine Trials in a History of Biomedical Experimentation and Abuse.&#8221; Journal of West African History,\u00a0 Vol 6, 2 (2020), 122-136. \u201cAfrican Women and Health: Evolving Challenges.\u201d In Holding the World Together: African Women in Changing\u00a0Perspective, eds. Claire Robertson and Nwando Achebe. 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