Holly Hanson is Professor Emeritus at Mount Holyoke College. She has a variety of research interests, including agrarian change in Africa, social history of the Buganda kingdom, precolonial African political culture, and globalization as a historical process. These interests recently culminated in her new book, Landed Obligation: The Practice of Power in Buganda, which is part of the Heinemann Social History of Africa series. Hanson has also published numerous articles on a variety of topics, from Bugandan women to global inequality.