Dr. Cherry Leonardi

Cherry Leonardi is Associate Professor in African History at Durham University in the UK. She works on the history of South Sudan and northern Uganda, with particular interests in local-level processes of state formation and the construction of authority, communities, and boundaries. She is the author of Dealing with Government in South Sudan: Histories of Chiefship, Community and State (James Currey, 2013) and co-author of Dividing Communities in South Sudan and Northern Uganda: Boundary Disputes and Land Governance (Rift Valley Institute, 2016). Her current research is exploring histories of conservation, conflict, and nature, with a Carson Fellowship at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich in 2020.