Keri Lambert

Keri Lambert is a doctoral candidate in African history specializing in the social, environmental, and economic history of the twentieth century. Her research looks at Ghana’s rubber industry from 1880 to the present. As a 2013-14 Thomas J. Watson Fellow and a 2016-17 SSRC-Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellow she conducted archival, oral historical, and participant observation research in Ghana, the United States, and the United Kingdom on this topic. In my dissertation, I use rubber forests, farms, and factories as lenses to examine how people in the colonial Gold Coast and Ghana — especially farmers and workers, but also union reps, politicians, traders, and student activists — grappled with the possibilities and perils of producing for the world market. Her personal website is at kerilambert.net.