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Doctoral supervision and publication in Birmingham

I  reached the end of my research supervision at the University of Birmingham in 2022 (I retired officially in December 2019). At that time I had reflected on the international nature of my doctoral research supervision over the past 25 years and its impact on my life. I want to put this (originally a Facebook post) up here. This was really an international work. Of the fifty graduates I supervised to completion, fourteen were from the UK, ten from South Korea, seven from Ghana, six from the USA, two each from India and China, and one each from Indonesia, Nigeria, Zambia, Romania, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, and Canada. Besides those from Pentecostal churches, they often came from mainline Protestant and Anglican denominations. The research was almost entirely empirical work on global Pentecostalism and the relationship between religion and culture. As to where the research was situated, sixteen of these topics were on Africa, sixteen on Asia, eleven on Europe, five on Nor...
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My "Free Black" Progenitors in the Cape of Good Hope

  The “Free Black” progenitors of Johanna Maria Schonken (1777-1848)  in the Dutch-governed Cape of Good Hope   Allan H. Anderson [1] her great-great-great grandson   Introduction Johanna Schonken, my generation’s great-great-great grandmother, was born in Stellenbosch in the Cape of Good Hope in the southern tip of Africa, and baptised on 27 July 1777. [2]  Her parents were Bartholomeus Schonken (sometimes spelled “Schonke”) (1739-1806) and Elisabeth Maria van Ellewe (1750-1845), who were married in 1765. [3]  We do not know anything about her early life, but on 17 August 1806 she married the London-born missionary William Anderson (1769-1852) in the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) in Cape Town. [4]  Afterwards she travelled with her husband to work in the London Missionary Society, at first amongst the Griquas in Klaarwater, now Griquastad, north of the Orange River. The Griquas were a mixed race of people speaking Afrikaans and descended from imported s...
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