Dr Katharine Frederick
Dr Katharine Frederick - Assistant Professor Katharine Frederick has won the IEHA 20th-21st Century Dissertation Prize at the World Economic History Congress 2022 in Paris. Frederick received the award for her thesis 'Deindustrialization in East Africa: Textile Production in an Era of Globalization and Colonization 1830-1940' . "It was an immense honour to have my dissertation recognised in this by the international community", Frederick says. "I hope that this will help bring even more attention to the vibrant and growing field of African Economic History." - PhD dissertation on deindustrialisation in East Africa. In her doctoral thesis on the deindustrialisation of East Africa, Frederick sought to answer the question of when and why the handicraft cloth industry in that region fell into decline. For while the cotton textile industry has served as a springboard to broader industrial and economic development in a number of world regions, (cloth) industries in East Africa eventually fell into rapid decline. Frederick argues that previous research has placed undue weight on the overriding power of global forces, and that the causes of deindustrialisation can instead be found in a combination of time-dependent local factors.
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