Kathleen Sheldon

Kathleen Sheldon is a Research Scholar at the Center for the Study of Women at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Masters in African Studies and her Ph.D. in History at UCLA. From 1982-1984 she and her family lived in Mozambique, and she has returned several times in more recent years.

She is part of a team of editors for a discussion network on Portuguese-speaking Africa, h-luso-africa, found at https://networks.h-net.org/h-luso-africa. She is a member of the editorial board for the online reference resource, Oxford Bibliographies in African Studies, and has contributed to numerous other reference works.

She has published many articles as well as the books listed here, primarily on African women and on Mozambique.

Her chapter, "Writing about Women: Approaches to a Gendered Perspective in African History," can be found in Writing African History, ed. John Edward Philips, 465-489 (Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2005).