About

Paul Ocobock is Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. Ocobock is a historian of twentieth-century Africa specializing in the histories of African peoples living in East Africa. He has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2011.

Ocobock's research draws on archival records and field interviews done with members of several communities in Kenya. His current work examines the everyday lives of young Kenyan African men growing up under British colonialism. Ocobock is preparing a book manuscript on this theme entitled Coming of Age in Kenya Colony as well as writing an article on the participation of young men in the Mau Mau war and British efforts to punish and rehabilitate them.

ISP Advisee:
Jun Wei Lee