Jonathan Walz
Jonathan Walz lives and works in the Zanzibar Archipelago. His hands-on teaching, community partnerships, and scholarship address topics at the human-environment interface in eastern Africa, India, and the islands of the western Indian Ocean. He earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Florida, where he was a FLAS Fellow and taught for the Interdisciplinary Honors Program. A Fulbright-Hays award funded his doctoral research which re-represented coast-inland entanglement in Iron Age northeastern Tanzania. Professors Peter Schmidt and Luise White served as his mentors. As a short-term graduate student in History and Archaeology at the University of Dar es Salaam, Jonathan studied with Professors Isaria Kimambo, Amin Mturi, and political theorist Earnest Wamba dia Wamba. Previously, he graduated with a B.A. (summa cum laude) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Carole Crumley supervised his undergraduate thesis on historical ecology.
Jonathan has led or contributed to archaeological or paleoecological research in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, India, Europe, and the US. As Associate Professor at SIT-Graduate Institute, he chairs a holistic Master's program on Climate Change, with semesters in Iceland, Tanzania, and a third country for research. He also directs SIT’s Zanzibar office and leads its undergraduate program on Coastal Ecology and African Livelihoods, with field studies on Unguja, Pemba, and Mafia islands, and in Seychelles. In collaboration with partners in Africa and India, Jonathan has helped to remake the Holocene pasts of Tanzania and Uganda and co-founded a Center for India and South Asia. He has mentored 30 graduate students with thesis projects in the Global South. He is Research Associate at The Field Museum in Chicago and Director of Tuko Pamoja, a Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad on African innovation in an era of environmental and social transformation. Academia.edu archives a selection of his publications.
Contact: jwalz.us@gmail.com
Jonathan has led or contributed to archaeological or paleoecological research in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, India, Europe, and the US. As Associate Professor at SIT-Graduate Institute, he chairs a holistic Master's program on Climate Change, with semesters in Iceland, Tanzania, and a third country for research. He also directs SIT’s Zanzibar office and leads its undergraduate program on Coastal Ecology and African Livelihoods, with field studies on Unguja, Pemba, and Mafia islands, and in Seychelles. In collaboration with partners in Africa and India, Jonathan has helped to remake the Holocene pasts of Tanzania and Uganda and co-founded a Center for India and South Asia. He has mentored 30 graduate students with thesis projects in the Global South. He is Research Associate at The Field Museum in Chicago and Director of Tuko Pamoja, a Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad on African innovation in an era of environmental and social transformation. Academia.edu archives a selection of his publications.
Contact: jwalz.us@gmail.com
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