Dr. Kairn Klieman, Associate Professor of History

College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Department of History

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• Areas of expertise

  • Oil history/energy history: African, comparative global, origins and manifestations of the “Resource Curse”
  • African history
  • Environmental history

• Awards

  • External Faculty Fellowship from the Humanities Research Center at Rice University. 2011.
  • University Teaching Excellence Award. 2007.
  • Finalist for the Melville J. Herskovits Award. 2004.

• Publications

  • “From Kerosene to Avgas: International Oil Companies and their Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1890s to 1945,” in Environment and Economics in Nigeria, edited by Toyin Falola and Adam Paddock (New York: Routledge Press, 2012).
  • “U.S. Oil Companies, The Nigerian Civil War, and the Origins of Opacity in the Nigerian Oil Industry, 1964-1971” Journal of American Historyvol. 99, no. 1 (June 2012): 155-165.
  • "Oil, Politics, and Development in the Formation of a State: The Congolese Petroleum Wars, 1963-68," International Journal of African Historical Studies, 41:2 (2008), p.169-202.
  • "Of Ancestors and Earth Spirits: New Approaches for Interpreting Equatorial African Politics, Religion, and Art." Chapter in LaGamma, A. (ed.) Eternal Ancestors: Central African Reliquary Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2007). Honorable Mention, Association of Art Museum Curators, “Outstanding Exhibition Catalog,” 2008.
  •  The Pygmies Were Our Compass: Bantu and Batwa in the History of West Central Africa, Early Times to c. 1900 (Heinemann, 2003).  Finalist for the Herskovits Award, CHOICE Outstanding Title (2004).

• Patents

  • None available.

• Grants and Funded Research

  • Has received support from the Social Science Research Council, the Fulbright-Hayes Foundation, and the Belgian-American Educational Foundation.

   

• Curriculum Vitae

  • Kairn Klieman CV

• Contact information

  Agnes Arnold Hall, Room 526

  Phone:  (713) 743-3106 |

  kklieman@uh.edu