Browse  ▾ How to… ▾ Poetry Prize About the Press shopping_cart search Laura Ann Twagira Laura Ann Twagira is an associate professor of history at Wesleyan University. She edited the “Africanizing Technology” special issue for the journal Technology and Culture and was a scholar in residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City. To schedule this author for an event or speaking engagement, please contact sales manager Jeff Kallet at kallet@ohio.edu. If you are a member of the media who would like to interview this author, please email publicity@ohioswallow.com. LISTED IN: African Studies · Technology & Engineering | Agriculture | Sustainable Agriculture · Business & Economics | Labor · Mali · Western Africa · History | Africa | West · Women’s Studies Embodied Engineering Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Taste in Twentieth-Century Mali By Laura Ann Twagira Common narratives about development in Africa miss the critical technological work of women. Twagira’s study instead positions Malian women as rural engineers whose strategic planning and labor over the course of the twentieth century assured their food security. RELATED AUTHORS Emily S. Burrill David Morton Marissa J. Moorman Richard Matthew Patricia A. Weitsman Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv Nora Davis Tera Dornfeld BROWSE… New Titles Series Subjects Catalogs HOW TO… Contact Us Order a Book Request an Exam or Desk Copy Request Permission to Reprint Submit a Manuscript About the Press Support the Press Poetry Prize Privacy Policy Shopping Cart Follow us on Twitter Find us on Facebook Ohio University Press · Swallow Press Alden Library, Suite 101 30 Park Place Athens, OH 45701-2909 +1 740 593 1154