Contact Information
Research Areas
Awards and Honors
Conrad Humanities Scholar, 2019-2024, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois
Helen Corley Petit Scholar, 2013-2014, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Illinois
Bethwell A. Ogot Book Award, 2013, African Studies Association
Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship, 2012-2015, ACLS
Moody Research Grant, 2013, LBJ Presidential Library
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, History
External Links
Highlighted Publications
Brennan, J. R. (2012). Taifa: Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania. (New African Histories). Ohio University Press. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/16003
Brennan, J. R., Burton, A., & Lawi, Y. (Eds.) (2007). Dar es Salaam: Histories from an Emerging African Metropolis. African Books Collective. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/16829
Recent Publications
Brennan, J. R. (2021). The Secret Lives of Dennis Phombeah: Decolonization, the Cold War, and African Political Intelligence, 1953-1974. The International History Review, 43(1), 153-169. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2020.1776750
Brennan, J. R. (2020). Review: Andreana C. Prichard, Sisters in Spirit: Christianity, Affect, and Community Building in East Africa, 1860-1970. Canadian Journal of African Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2020.1775801
Brennan, J. R. (2020). Review: Jonathan Derrick. Africa, Empire and Fleet Street: Albert Cartwright and West Africa Magazine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Journal of British Studies, 59(4), 943-944. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2020.123
Brennan, J. R. (2020). Review: P. Brooke, Duncan Sandys and the Information Politics of Britain’s Late Decolonisation. Twentieth Century British History, 31(2), 277-279. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwz025
Brennan, J. R. (2020). Review: Simon Ball, Secret History: Writing the Rise of Britain's Intelligence Services. McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 2020. International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, 33(4). https://doi.org/10.1080/08850607.2020.1816562