Liam James Kingsley, Ph.D.
FECOHP Oral Historian
Liam is an oral historian who works on the history of disease, exile, and statebuilding in colonial and postcolonial Namibia. Their dissertation, “Of Primary Concern: Health Administration, HIV/AIDS, and Namibian Independence,” uses oral histories to explore how the experiences of wartime exile and the HIV/AIDS epidemic shaped the creation of the postcolonial Namibian state. Their article “Aid and Extraversion: Medical Governance in SWAPO Exile Camps, 1974–1989,” exploring the process by which the Namibian liberation movement constructed medical infrastructure in neighboring Angola and Zambia, was published by the Journal of Southern African Studies in 2025. They currently reside in Bloomington, Indiana.