IOWC Research Associate
Thomas Vernet
Thomas Vernet, who gained his PhD from the Sorbonne (‘Les cités-Etats swahili de l’archipel de Lamu, 1585-1810. Dynamiques endogènes, dynamiques exogènes’ - under revision for publication) is Assistant professor (maître de conférences) in pre-colonial African history at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. A member of the laboratoire Centre d’Etudes des Mondes Africains (CEMAf), a combined Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne research group, his main field of research is the East African coast and the Western Indian Ocean ca.1500-1820, particularly the Swahili world, notably the Swahili city-states within Indian Ocean trade networks, the slave trade and slavery on the East African coast, Portuguese expansion and impact, power and social change in Swahili society, and littoral-interior relations.
Publications
- 2006 (forthcoming). “Slave trade and slavery on the Swahili coast (1500-1750)”, in Paul Lovejoy, Behnaz A. Mirzai and Ismael M. Montana (ed.), Slavery, Islam and Diaspora, Trenton, Africa World Press. Revised and expanded version of 2003 article.
- 2004. “Le territoire hors les murs des cités-Etats swahili de l’archipel de Lamu, 1600-1800,” Journal des Africanistes, 74 (1-2), pp. 381-411.
- 2004. “La splendeur des cités Swahili,” L’Histoire, 284, pp. 62-67.
- 2003. “Le commerce des esclaves sur la côte swahili, 1500-1750,” Azania, 38, pp. 69-97.
- 2002. “Les cités-Etats swahili et la puissance omanaise (1650-1720),” Journal des Africanistes, 72 (2), pp. 89-110.
