Ph.D. Syracuse University

Teaching Fields: African History, East African History, World History.

Research: Modern East Africa; colonial Kenya; economic history of Kenya; rural agrarian change in Kenya; colonial history of the Gusii of western Kenya.

Selected Publications:

Conflict and Accommodation in Western Kenya: the Gusii and the British, 1907-1963 (1989).

Co-editor with W.R. Ochieng', An Economic History of Kenya (1992).

Struggle for Kenya: the Loss and Reassertion of Imperial Initiative, 1912-1923 (1993).

East Africa: An Introductory History 2nd Edition (1994).

"Up in Smoke: Peasants, Capital and the Colonial State in the Tobacco Industry in Western Kenya, 1930-1939," African Economic History 22 (1994): 111-39.

Historical Dictionary of Kenya Second Edition, co-authored with Thomas Ofcansky (2000).

Connections to other Web sites: Regional Research Institute: www.rri.wvu.edu/vita/maxon.htm

email: rmaxon@wvnvm.wvnet.edu