Timbs, Elizabeth Hope

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Liz Timbs is an assistant professor of history whose teaching focuses on African, digital, and public history. Her own research focuses on the intersections of age, gender, and ethnicity in identity formation among Zulu-speakers in South Africa. Her current book project, entitled The Regiments, reconstructs how Zulu amabutho (age-grades, regiments) shaped male youth socialization for the past two centuries in South Africa. Her work has appeared in African Studies, the Journal of Southern Africa Studies, the South African Historical Journal, and the Journal of Natal and Zulu History. Prior to her appointment at UNCW, Prof. Timbs held a postdoctoral teaching fellowship in African History at North Carolina State University. She received her B.A. in History and Political Science from Belmont University, her M.A. in Comparative World History from George Mason University, and her Ph.D. in African History from Michigan State University.
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