Elizabeth H Timbs
Assistant Professor
Liz Timbs is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, offering courses in 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.
Education
Ph.D. in African History, Michigan State University
M.A. in Comparative World History, George Mason University
B.A. in History/Political Science, Belmont University