Research
Ceaios publications
2022 Esther S. Brielle, Jeffrey Fleisher, Stephanie Wynne-Jones, Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht, Kim Callan, Elizabeth Curtis, Lora Iliev, Ann Marie Lawson, Jonas Oppenheimer, Lijun Qiu, Kristin Stewardson, J. Noah Workman, Fatma Zalzala, George Ayodo, Agness O. Gidna, Angela Kabiru, Amandus Kwekason, Audax Z.P. Mabulla, Fredrick K. Manthi, Emmanuel Ndiema, Christine Ogola, Elizabeth Sawchuk, Lihadh Al-Gazali, Bassam R. Ali, Salma Ben-Salem, Thierry Letellier, Denis Pierron, Chantal Radimilahy, Jean-Aimé Rakotoarisoa, Brendan Culleton, Kendra Sirak, Swapan Mallick, Nadin Rohland, Nick Patterson, Mohammed Ali Mwenje, Khalfan Bini Ahmed, Mohamed Mchulla Mohamed, Sloan Williams, Janet Monge, Sibel Kusimba, Mary E. Prendergast, David Reich, Chapurukha M. Kusimba, The Entwined African and Asian Genetic Roots of the Medieval Peoples of the Swahili Coast bioRxiv 2022.07.10.499442; doi: (Nature, forthcoming)
2021 Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg, David Anthony, Hiba Babiker Eszter Bánffy, Thomas Booth, Patricia Capone, Arati Deshpande-Mukherjee, Stefanie Eisenmann, Lars Fehren-Schmitz, Michael Frachetti, Ricardo Fujita, Catherine J. Frieman, Qiaomei Fu, Victoria Gibbon, Wolfgang Haak, Mateja Hajdinjak, Kerstin P. Hofmann, Brian Holguin, Takeshi Inomata, Hideaki Kanzawa-Kiriyama, William Keegan, Janet Kelso, Johannes Krause, Ganesan Kumaresan, Chapurukha Kusimba, Sibel Kusimba, Carles Lalueza-Fox, Bastien Llamas, Scott MacEachern, Swapan Mallick, Hirofumi Matsumura, Ana Y. Morales-Arce, Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, Veena Mushrif-Tripathy, Nathan Nakatsuka, Rodrigo Nores, Christine Ogola, Mercedes Okumura, Nick Patterson, Ron Pinhasi, Samayamantri P. R. Prasad, Mary E. Prendergast, Jose Luis Punzo, David Reich, Rikai Sawafuji, Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stephan Schiffels, Jakob Sedig, Svetlana Shnaider, Kendra Sirak, Pontus Skoglund, Viviane Slon, Meradeth Snow, Marie Soressi, Matthew Spriggs, Philipp W. Stockhammer, Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, Kumarasamy Thangaraj, Vera Tiesler, Ray Tobler, Chuan-Chao Wang, Christina Warinner, Surangi Yasawardene & Muhammad Zahir, Ethics of DNA research on human remains: five globally applicable guidelines. Nature 599, 41–46 (2021).
2021 Kusimba, S. Reimagining Money: Kenya in the Digital Finance Revolution, Stanford University Press.
2021 Kusimba, Sibel, and C. M. Kusimba. “Cowries and Blood: Money, Value and Relationships in Precolonial East Africa.” In Merchants, Measures and Money: Understanding the Technologies of Early Trade in a Comparative Perspective, edited by L. Rahmstorf, G. Barjamovic, and N. Ialongo. Wachholtz Verlag, Kiel, Hamburg, pp. 225-244.
2021 C.M. Kusimba. “Ritual and State Making in Precolonial Rwanda.” African Archaeological Review
2021 CM Kusimba and JR Walz. “Debating the Swahili. Archaeologies.” Journal of the World Archaeology Congress.
2020 Economic Anthropology. Special Issue Editor, Volume 7, Issue 2. Theme: Wealth in People.
2020 Kusimba, CM and I. Pikirayi. A Conversation with Peter Ridgway Schmidt, the Ṣango of African Archaeology. African Archaeological Review, 37:185-223.
2020 Kusimba, S. “Embodied Value: Wealth-in-People.” Economic Anthropology 7(2):166-175. Special Issue Theme: Wealth-in-People.
2020 Kusimba, C.M., Tiequan Zhu, and Purity Kiura, eds. China and East Africa: Ancient Ties, Contemporary Flows. Lanham: Lexington Books.
2020 Oteyo, G and C.M. Kusimba. 2020. The Consumption of Glass Beads in Ancient Swahili East Africa. In China and East Africa: Ancient Ties, Contemporary Flows, edited by C.M. Kusimba, T. Zhu, and P.W. Kiura. Lexington Books, Lanham, pp 147-164.
2019 Remittances. In Digital Finance in Africa's Future. Proceedings of an international Colloquium held in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 22—26 October 2018. Organized by the Human Economy Research Programme at the University of Pretoria and the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS), in association with Disrupting Africa. Edited by John Sharp, Lena Gronbach and Riaan de Villiers. University of Pretoria, South Africa, pp. 42-48.
2019 Sibel Kusimba and Changa Labs, M-Changa, Busara Center for Behavioral Economics. Understanding Digital Fundraising in Kenya: A Case Study of M-Changa. Nairobi, Kenya.
2018 Kusimba, S. It is Easy for Women to Ask: Gender and Digital Finance in Kenya. Economic Anthropology 5(2):247-260. Special Issue Theme: Financialization.
2018 Kusimba, S. Money, Mobile Money and Ritual In Western Kenya: The Contingency Fund and the Thirteenth Cow. African Studies Review 61(2):158-182. Special Issue Theme: Post-Colonial and Contemporary Kenya.
2018 Kusimba, S., Gabriel Kunyu, and Elizabeth Gross. “Social Networks of Mobile Money in Kenya.” In Money at the Margins: Global Perspectives on Technology, Financial Inclusion, and Design, edited by B. Maurer, S. Musaraj, and I. Small. Berghahn Books, London, pp. 179-199.
2018 Raaum, Ryan L Sloan R. Williams, C. M. Kusimba, Janet Monge, Alan Morris, and Mohamed Mchulla Mohamed. 2018. "Decoding the Swahili: The Genetic Ancestry of the Swahili." In The Swahili World, edited by Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Adria LaViolette, Routledge, London, pp. 81-102.
2018 Kusimba, C. and Kusimba, S. “Mosaics.” In The Swahili World, edited by Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Adria LaViolette. Routledge, London, pp. 403-418.
2018 Kusimba, C. M. 2018. “Ancient Connections Between China and East Africa.” In Maritime Cultures of the Indian Ocean, edited by Akshay Sarathi, Archeopress, Oxford, pp 83-101.
2018 Kusimba, C.M. 2018. Trade and the Medieval Swahili State. In State Formations: Histories and Cultures of State, edited by J.L. Brooke. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 20. Accepted.
2018 Kusimba, C.M. 2018. Trade and Civilization in Medieval East Africa: Socioeconomic Networks” In Ancient Trade and Civilization, edited by Kristian Kristiansen, Thomas Lindkvist, and Janken Myrdal. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 320-353
2018 Kusimba, C.M and Jonathan Walz. 2018. When Did the Swahili Become Maritime?: A Reply to Fleisher et al. (2015), and to the Resurgence of Maritime Myopia in the Archaeology of the Swahili Coast.” American Anthropologist. 120(3):429-443. DOI: 10.1111/aman.13059.
2017 Kusimba, C.M. “Community archaeology and heritage in coastal and Western Kenya.” Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage, 4(3):218-228. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20518196.2017.1345365
2017 Kusimba, C.M., Rahul C. Oka, Vishwas D. Gogte, Laure Dussubieux, and Sibel B. Kusimba. “Predatory Commerce and Economic Disaster: A Cautionary Tale from the 17th Century Indian Ocean Economy.” In Africa and Its Diaspora: History, Identities and Economy, edited by Samuel Oloruntoba. Panafrican University Press, Austin. pp. 89-102.
2017 Kusimba, C.M., K. Nam, and SB. Kusimba. 2017. “Trade and State Formation on the Ancient East African and Southern Zambezia.” In Feast, Famine or Fighting? Multiple Pathways to Social Complexity, edited by R.J. Chacon and R. G. Mendoza. Springer, New York, Chapter 4, pp. 61-89.
2017 Kusimba, C.M. “The Swahili and Globalization in the Indian Ocean” In Archaeology of Globalization, edited by Tamar Hodos. Routledge, London & New York, pp 104- 122.
2016 Kusimba, S.B., Y. Yang, and N. Chawla. Hearthholds of Mobile Money in Western Kenya. Economic Anthropology 3(2):266-279. Special issue theme: Technology.
2015 Kusimba, S. B., Y. Yang, and N. Chawla. Family Networks of Mobile Money in Kenya. Information Technology in International Development 11(3):1-21.
2015 Zhu T., F. Zeyang, C. M. Kusimba, and D. Xing.2015. “Using Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectroscopy (LA-ICP-MS) to Determine the Provenance of the Cobalt pigment of Qinghua Porcelain from Jingdezhen in Yuan Dynasty of China (1271-1368AD).” Ceramics International.
2015 Kim, N, C.M. Kusimba, and Lawrence Keeley.2015. “The Role of Warfare in Shaping the Development of Social Complexity in Southern Zambezia.” African Archaeological Review 32:1-34.
2013 Kusimba, C.M, Sibel B. Kusimba, and L. Dussubieux. “Beyond the Coastalscapes: Preindustrial Social and Political Networks in East Africa.” African Archaeological Review 30:399-426.
2013 Batai, K, Babrowski, K.B, C.M. Kusimba, E. Leenheer, and S. R. William. 2013. “Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) heterogeneity within and among East African Bantu ethnic groups and their complex evolutionary histories.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 150:482-491.
2012 Kusimba, C.M. 2012. “African Perspectives” In Oman and Overseas: The Ibadism of Oman; Its Overseas Development and Perceptions, edited by Michaela Hoffmann-Ruf and Abdulrahman Al Salimi. Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, pp. 387-401.
2011 Kusimba, C.M., R. Rauum, S. Williams, J. Monge, I Busolo, and M. Mchula. 2011. “Decoding the Swahili: An Integrated Archaeological and Genetic Study of the Swahili of East Africa.” Journal of African Archaeology Network 9:23-41.
2008 Kim, N and C.M. Kusimba.2008. “Pathways to Social complexity and State Formation in the Southern Zambezian Region.” African Archaeological Review 25:131-152.
2008 Oka, R and C.M. Kusimba. “The Archaeology of Trading Systems, Part 1.” Journal of Archaeological Research 16:339-395.
2008 Dussubieux L, C.M. Kusimba, V. Gogte, S.B. Kusimba, B. Gratuize, and R. Oka. 2008. “The Trading of Ancient Glass from South Asian and East Africa Soda-Alumina Glass Beads.” Archeometry. 50 (5): 797-821.
2005 Kusimba, C.M., S.B. Kusimba, and D.K. Wright.2005. “The Development and Collapse of Precolonial Ethnic Mosaics in Tsavo, Kenya.” Journal of African Archaeology 3(2): 243-265.
2005 Kusimba, S. “What is a Hunter-gatherer? Some problems in the archaeology of Eastern and Southern Africa.” Journal of Archaeological Research 13:337-366.
2004 Kusimba, C.M. “Archaeology of Slavery in East Africa.” African Archaeological Review 21 (2): 59-88.
2003 Kusimba, S. African Foragers: Environment, Technology, Interactions. AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, CA.
2003 Terrell, J., Hart, N. Cellinese, A. Curet, C.M. Kusimba, S. Kusimba, K. Latinis, R. Oka, J. Palka. 2003. “Domesticated Landscapes: The Subsistence Ecology of Plant and Animal Domestication.” Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 16:323-369.
2002 Kusimba, S. The Early Later Stone Age in East Africa: Excavations and Lithic Assemblages from Lukenya Hill, Kenya. African Archaeological Review 18:77-123.