إليزابيث هودجكين

Elizabeth Hodgkin is currently teaching in a secondary school in Eastern Equatoria State in the Republic of South Sudan. Hodgkin first came to Sudan between school and university in 1960. Following a degree in history and a diploma in education she taught in a secondary school in Zambia and then worked as a lecturer in the History Department of the University of Khartoum from 1968-73. She continued to visit Sudan frequently. After doing an MA and a PhD in West African history, she worked for a year in 1988 on the effect of Islamism on education in Africa under the London School of Oriental and African Studies’ Islam in Africa Project. She was a founder of the Committee for Peace and Reconciliation in Sudan which became Sudan Update in 1989. Between 1989 and 2009 she worked as a Researcher in the Middle East and Africa Programs at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International in London; from 2003 till 2009 she worked mostly on Sudan.