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During the course of the past year, Widener also came to be the temple of my thesis. The ritual of writing always began with a visit to the replica of Harry Elkins??s home reading room between the first and second floors. As I would cross the threshold of the marble antechamber, I breathed deeply that distinct change in smell, the sweetness evocative of aged pages, and felt the cooler, quieter atmosphere envelope me. In that life’s heart of the library, there the Gutenberg would light up before me, there Harry’s portrait...
...Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya,” which “realigned historians’ understanding of the final years of colonial Kenya,” Dean of Social Science Stephen M. Kosslyn said in a press release announcing Elkins?? tenure. Elkins collected much of the information contained in the book from oral histories of Kenyan survivors of British detention camps in the 1950s and wrote the book during a yearlong stay at the Radcliffe Institute between 2003 and 2004. Her research interests include “colonial violence...
...come in on the weekends and there she’d be at her desk,” says Judith E. Vichniac, director of Radcliffe’s fellowship program. “She’s somebody who really put her nose to the grindstone.”Elkins?? academic safari began in 1989 when she touched down in Namibia to teach English.“I knew almost immediately that this was my future when I got off the plane,” the Africanist remembers.After a trip to Kenya the following year, Elkins could...
Harvard historian Caroline M. Elkins led a slew of Harvard professors, affiliates, and alumni who picked up Pulitzer Prizes and recognition from the Pulitzer Board yesterday. Elkins?? book, “Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya,” won the Pulitzer—the nation’s most prominent award for journalism and letters—for General Non-Fiction.“I’m simply overwhelmed,” Elkins, the Foster associate professor of African studies, said shortly after the Pulitzer Board made...
...Elkins?? work on Kenya does history a great service by filling in the gap of knowledge about Mau Mau. It is something that, Elkins compellingly argues, should be discussed not only in the ranks of academia but also in Kenya, where until recently, mentioning Mau Mau has been taboo, punishable by imprisonment without trial. Yet when it comes time for a discussion, the full breadth of conflict—Mau Mau’s savagery and likewise Britain’s settler-inspired savage response—should be on the table...