Ptwo Molosiwa, B.A. University of Botswana; M.A. University of Botswana; PhD University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Department
Biography
A visiting professor in African history with teaching interests in introductory surveys, the histories of medicine, health and disease and environmental history. I am a scholar of Botswana and of modern southern Africa. My creative work stands at the interface of of different fields, moving from African medical history to race and ethnicity, to gender and the construction of masculinities, to environmental history, and to citizenship and national identity.
Awards and Affiliations
Research Travel Grant, University of Free State, ‘History at the Precipice: Continuity, Change and Crises in Southern Africa’, 29th Biennial conference of The Southern African Historical Society (SAHS), University of Johannesburg, South Africa, 26-28 June 2024
Academic Travel Grant, The German Research Foundation, ‘Past Futures: New Histories from Southern Africa’, Collaborative Workshop between the University of Cologne and the University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia: 3-5 July 2024
Faculty Research Fund, Carleton College, April 2024
Research and Publications
Phuthego P. Molosiwa, 'Doff white shirts, don overalls’: Urbanophobia, Rural Enterprise and the Ideal of Masculine Citizenship in Post-Colonial Botswana, Journal of Southern African Studies 49, 2023 - Issue 5-6: Part-Special Issue: Histories of Protest in East London and the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Phuthego P. Molosiwa and Maitseo M.M. Bolaane, “The Root of All Evil?’: Cash Boom, Trader Misfeasance and Poverty in World War II Bechuanaland Protectorate”, South African Historical Journal. Published online (21 May 2023). DOI:10.1080/02582473.2023.2205603
Sunny Aiyuk and Phuthego P. Molosiwa, “Sanitize the Man, Sanitize the Car: Covid 19 Disease Control in Botswana”, Journal of Developing Societies, 39 (2), (2023), 1-21. DOI: 10.1177/09734082231158877
Phuthego P. Molosiwa, Maitseo M.M. Bolaane and Boingotlo A. Moses, “Certainly not! .... It is a disease of the Makgalagadi’: The Ethnicisation of Endemic Syphilis in the Bakwena Reserve, Bechuanaland Protectorate”, Journal of Southern African Studies, 48 (6), 2022, 1-19. DOI:10.1080/03057070.2022.2146938