Associate Professor, Department of History, Michigan State University, 2007-present
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fairl@msu.edu Associate Professor, Department of History, Michigan State University, 2007-present Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Oregon, September, 1994-2007 EDUCATION Ph.D., History, University of Minnesota with a minor in African Studies, August, 1994 M.A., History, minor in African Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988 B.A., History and Political Science, Northern Illinois University, 1985 Blackburn College, 1981-1983
Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study Residential Fellowship, 2013-14 Humanities and Arts Research Program Production Grant, Michigan State University, 2012 Humanities and Arts Research Program Fellowship, Michigan State University, 2010 Fulbright-African Research Award-Tanzania, 2004-2005 Summer Research Award, University of Oregon, 2003 Center for the Study of Women and Society Research Grant, University of Oregon, 2002 Endeavor Fellow, Department of History, University of Oregon, 2000-2001 Humanities Center Research Fellowship, University of Oregon, Fall 1997 Bernadotte E Schmitt Grant for Research, American Historical Association, 1993 McMillan Research and Travel Grant, 1993 University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1992-93 American Council of Learned Societies & Social Science Research Council, International Doctoral Research Fellowship, 1990 Fulbright-Hayes Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad, 1990 PUBLICATIONS Books Pastimes and Politics: Culture, Community and Identity in Post-abolition Urban Zanzibar, 1890-1945 (Athens,OH: Ohio University Press, 2001). Herskovits Prize Finalist. Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year, 2001. Journal Articles and Contributions to Edited Volumes ‘Veiled Status: a history of veiling in Zanzibar,’ in Elisha Renne (ed.) Veiling in Africa and Beyond (Indiana University Press, 2013). ‘Siti binti Saad (c. 1885-1950): “Giving Voice to the Voiceless,” Swahili Music, and the Global Recording industry in the 1920s and 1930s,’ in Dennis Cordell (ed). The Human Tradition in Modern Africa (Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield, 2012), 175-190. “They Stole the Show!: Indian Films in Coastal Tanzania, 1950s-1980s,” Journal of African Media Studies 2,1 (2010): 91-106. “Songs, Stories, Action!: Audience Preferences in Tanzania, 1950s-1980s,” Austen and Saul (eds.) Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-first Century: art films and the Nollywood video revolution (Ohio University Press, 2010), 108-30. Fair-2 “Making Love in the Indian Ocean: Hindi films, Zanzibari Audiences and the Construction of Romance in the 1950s,” Cole and Thomas (eds.) Love in Africa (University of Chicago, 2009), 58-82. “Hollywood Hegemony? Hardly: Audience Preferences in Zanzibar, 1950s-1970s,” Zanzibar International Film Festival Journal, 1,1 (2004): 52-58. Reprinted in Fatma Alloo (ed.), ZIFF: Festival of the Dhow Countries, The First Ten Years (Zanzibar: Gallery Publications, 2011), “Remaking Fashion in the Paris of the Indian Ocean: Dress, Performance and Cosmopolitan Identity in Early Twentieth Century Zanzibar,” in Jean Allman (ed.) Fashioning Nations (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004), 1-23. “Ngoma Reverberations: Swahili music culture and the making of football aesthetics in early- twentieth century Zanzibar,” in G. Armstrong and R Guilianotti (eds.), Football in Africa (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004),103-113. “Football and Leisure in Urban Colonial Zanzibar,” in Paul Zeleza and Cassandra Veney (eds.), Leisure in Urban Africa (Trenton, NJ.: Africa World Press, 2003), 125-56. “‘It’s Just No Fun Anymore’: Women’s Experiences of Taarab Performance Before and After the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution,” International Journal of African Historical Studies, 35,1 (2002), 61-82. “Voice, Power and Authority in the Recordings of Siti binti Saad,” in David Cohen, Stephan Miescher and Luise White (eds.) African Words, African Voices: Critical Practices of Oral History (Bloomington, IN.: Indiana University Press, 2001), 246-63. "Dressing Up: Clothing, Class and Gender in Post-abolition Urban Zanzibar," Journal of African History, 39,1 (1998): 63-94. "Music, Memory and Meaning: The Kiswahili Recordings of Siti binti Saadi," Swahili Forum, 5, September (1998): 1-16. "Kickin' It: Leisure, Politics and Football in Zanzibar, 1900s-1950s," Africa 67,2 (1997): 224-51. "Identity, Difference and Dance: Female Initiation in Zanzibar, 1890-1930," Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 17,3 (1996): 146-72. Reprinted in Frank Gunderson and Gregory Bartz (eds.), Mashindano!: Competitive Music Performance in East Africa (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, 2000), 143-174. INVITED LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS ‘Genres of Desire: Dating at the Movies in Tanzania, 1950s-1980s’ Honors College, University of Oklahoma, April 1, 2013. ‘Dukin’ It Out in Dar es Salaam: Socialist Censors and the Kung Fu Craze,’ African Studies Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, November, 2012. ‘Keynote Address: Conference on Love and Sex in Muslim Africa,’ Tulane University, September 26-28, 2012. Fair-3 ‘Drive-in to Development: Socialist Modernism in 1960s and 1970s Tanzania,’ Center for Advanced Study of international Development, Michigan State University, March 23, 2012. ‘Socialist Modernities and Discourses of Development: The Drive-in in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania,’ Afrika Studie Centrum, Leiden, Netherlands, March 8, 2012. Defining Discourses and Modernist Projects, Panel Chair, African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, November, 2011. ‘Drive-in Modernity: Mobility, Media and Discourses of Development in independent Tanzania,” African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, November, 2011. Veiling and Beyond: The hijab in Africa and the Diaspora, African Studies Association annual meeting, San Francisco, Nov. 18-21, 2010. Panel discussant. Panel Chair, ‘New Perspectives in Urban East Africa,’ Consuming Cinema in Colonial and Post-colonial Tanzania,” Society for the History of Technology annual meeting, Tacoma, WA, October 1-3, 2010. “The Stole the Show!: Indian Films in Tanzania, 1950s-1980s,” Emory University Interdisciplinary Workshop in Colonial and Post-colonial Studies, March 25, 2010. “Cinema and Urban Space in Colonial and Post-colonial Tanzania,” African Studies Brown Bag, Michigan State University, March 4, 2010. ‘Drive-In Socialism in Dar es Salaam: Cinema and the State in Tanzania,’ African Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November, 2009. “’The Best Film of All Time!’: Reception of Raj Kapoor’s Awara in Zanzibar,” International Conference on Indian Cinema Circuits: Diasporas, Peripheries and Beyond, London: SOAS and University of Westminster. June 25 and 26, 2009. “The Social Cartography of Cinema in Tanzania, 1950s-1980s,” African Studies Baraza lecture, University of Florida, April 10, 2009. “Making Love at the Movies: Narrative Engagements and Physical Practices in Tanzania, 1950s-1980s,” African History and Anthropology Working Group Seminar, University of Michigan, February 19, 2009. “The History of Cinema in Tanzania,” Zanzibar Indian Ocean Research Institute seminar, December 24, 2008. ‘’Cinema and Distribution in East Africa: a study in Transnational and Comparative History,” Transnational History Seminar, Central Michigan University, October 16, 2008. “Texts in Translation: Reception of Raj Kapoor’s Awara in Zanzibar in the 1950s and 1960s,” Program in African Studies, Northwestern University, May 12, 2008. Fair-4 “Seeing Gender at the Show: Audience composition and reception in Tanzania, 1950s-1980s,” Baobob Lecture, University of Oregon, April 10, 2008. “Between the Reel and Real-life: Hindi films, Zanzibari Audiences and the Construction of Romance in the 1950s and 1960s,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington DC, January, 2008. “Audience Preferences in Tanzania, 1950s-1980s,” African Film Conference, University of Illinois, November 8-10, 2007. “Muslim Masculinities at the Movies,” Islam, Contested Authority and the Making of Everyday Lives in Africa, Indiana University, October 11-12, 2007. “Making Love in the Indian Ocean: Bollywood films, Zanzibari audiences and the making of modern romance, 1950s-1980s,” African Studies Association annual meeting, Washington, DC, 2005. “Hollywood Hegemony?--Hardly: Audience Preferences in Zanzibar, 1920s-1990s, African Studies Center Seminar Series, Indiana University, Spring, 2004. “Hollywood Hegemony?--Hardly: Audience Preferences in Zanzibar, 1920s-1990s,’ Zanzibar International Film Festival Seminar, March 2004. “Commercial Cinema in Colonial and Post-Colonial Zanzibar: the Films, the Fans, the Finances,” invited lecture, Yale Center for Swahili Studies, New Haven, Conn., April, 2003. “The Cinema as a Gendered Physical and Imaginary Space in 1950s Zanzibar,” invited lecture for the joint center on African Studies at Texas Southern and Rice Universities, Houston, TX, April, 2003. “Hollywood Hegemony?--Hardly: Audience Preferences in Zanzibar, 1920s-1990s,” Cultural Transactions Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, February, 2003. “Remaking Fashion in the Paris of the Indian Ocean: Dress, Performance and the (Trans)National Imaginary in Early Twentieth Century Zanzibar,” Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, November, 2001. “‘Its Just No Fun Anymore’: Women’s Experiences of Taarab Before and After the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution,” Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, November, 2000. "The Power of Football" Social Identity, Popular culture and Political Space in Twentieth Century African Sport History," panel discussant, Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, November, 1999. "Community, Identity and Power in Inter-War Zanzibar: the music of Siti binti Saadi." Department of History, University of Washington, Seattle. April, 1998. "Creating Community and Crafting Identity: Cultural Performance in Early Twentieth Century Zanzibar," African Studies Association Annual Meeting, October, 1998. Fair- 5 "Music, Memory and Meaning: the Kiswahili Recordings of Siti binti Saadi," African Studies Association, Columbus, OH, 1997. "Debating and Creating 'Leisure' in Colonial Urban Zanzibar," conference on the Creation and Consumption of Leisure in Urban Africa, University of Illinois, April, 1997. "Voice, Authority and Memory: The Kiswahili Recordings of Siti binti Saadi," Rockefeller Conference on Words and Voices, Bellagio, Italy, February, 1997. 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