Derek Peterson

2.3k total citations
45 papers, 682 citations indexed

About

Derek Peterson is a scholar working on Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Derek Peterson has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 682 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Anthropology, 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 9 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Derek Peterson's work include African history and culture studies (25 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (13 papers) and African history and culture analysis (8 papers). Derek Peterson is often cited by papers focused on African history and culture studies (25 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (13 papers) and African history and culture analysis (8 papers). Derek Peterson collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and South Africa. Derek Peterson's co-authors include Giacomo Macola, Emma Hunter, Robert L. Montgomery, Allen Isaacman, Richard Vokes, John Lonsdale, G. Hussein Rassool, Kodzo Gavua, Jean Allman and Isabel Hofmeyr and has published in prestigious journals such as The American Historical Review, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry and Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

In The Last Decade

Derek Peterson

40 papers receiving 494 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Derek Peterson United States	14	416	353	133	74	68	45	682
Sumathi Ramaswamy United States	14	285 0.7×	260 0.7×	216 1.6×	35 0.5×	51 0.8×	39	711
Mamadou Diouf Senegal	13	311 0.7×	460 1.3×	186 1.4×	33 0.4×	32 0.5×	48	785
William Pietz United Kingdom	8	256 0.6×	275 0.8×	85 0.6×	86 1.2×	72 1.1×	12	699
Suzanne Miers United States	16	689 1.7×	468 1.3×	206 1.5×	37 0.5×	101 1.5×	49	1.0k
Patricia Seed United States	12	235 0.6×	226 0.6×	149 1.1×	61 0.8×	109 1.6×	43	652
Phyllis M. Martin United States	15	510 1.2×	410 1.2×	109 0.8×	42 0.6×	86 1.3×	51	930
David B. Coplan South Africa	14	243 0.6×	457 1.3×	52 0.4×	86 1.2×	21 0.3×	55	749
Peter van der Veer Germany	7	206 0.5×	312 0.9×	174 1.3×	24 0.3×	28 0.4×	27	529
Philip D. Morgan United States	17	554 1.3×	414 1.2×	108 0.8×	52 0.7×	99 1.5×	48	966
Rosalind O’Hanlon United Kingdom	13	368 0.9×	302 0.9×	272 2.0×	28 0.4×	31 0.5×	32	656

Countries citing papers authored by Derek Peterson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Derek Peterson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Derek Peterson

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Peterson, Derek, et al.. (2019). The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin: Photographs from the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation. 3 indexed citations

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Peterson, Derek. (2016). The Politics of Transcendence in Colonial Uganda. Past & Present. 230(1). 197–225. 6 indexed citations

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Hunter, Emma & Derek Peterson. (2016). Print culture in colonial Africa. 1–45. 3 indexed citations

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Peterson, Derek. (2016). A history of the heritage economy in Yoweri Museveni’s Uganda. Journal of Eastern African Studies. 10(4). 789–806. 7 indexed citations

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Peterson, Derek, et al.. (2016). African Print Cultures: Newspapers and Their Publics in the Twentieth Century. 34 indexed citations

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Peterson, Derek. (2015). Violence and Political Advocacy in the Lost Counties, Western Uganda, 1930-64 *. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 48(1). 51–72. 3 indexed citations

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Peterson, Derek, et al.. (2015). The Politics of Heritage in Africa. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 27 indexed citations

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Peterson, Derek. (2013). Uganda’s History from the Margins. History in Africa. 40(s1). s23–s25. 2 indexed citations

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Peterson, Derek, et al.. (2013). Rethinking the state in Idi Amin's Uganda: the politics of exhortation. Journal of Eastern African Studies. 7(1). 58–82. 23 indexed citations

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Peterson, Derek. (2012). The work of time in Western Uganda. Citizenship Studies. 16(8). 961–977. 4 indexed citations

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Peterson, Derek. (2012). Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: A History of Dissent, c.1935-1972. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 31 indexed citations

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Peterson, Derek. (2011). Conversion and the Alignments of Colonial Culture. 24(2-3). 207–232. 3 indexed citations

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Peterson, Derek. (2010). Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic. Ohio University Press eBooks. 27 indexed citations

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Peterson, Derek. (2010). Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya: Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization. The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History. 38(2). 337–339. 55 indexed citations

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Lonsdale, John, et al.. (2009). Writing for Kenya. 6 indexed citations

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Peterson, Derek. (2006). Casting Characters: Autobiography and Political Imagination in Central Kenya. Research in African Literatures. 37(3). 176–192. 8 indexed citations

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Peterson, Derek. (2006). Casting Characters: Autobiography and Political Imagination in Central Kenya. Research in African Literatures. 37(3). 176–192. 1 indexed citations

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Peterson, Derek. (2004). Creative writing : translation, bookkeeping, and the work of imagination in colonial Kenya. Heinemann eBooks. 96 indexed citations

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Isaacman, Allen & Derek Peterson. (2003). Making the Chikunda: Military Slavery and Ethnicity in Southern Africa, 1750-1900. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 36(2). 257–257. 12 indexed citations

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Peterson, Derek, et al.. (2003). Culture and Customes of Kenya. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 36(3). 641–641. 2 indexed citations

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