Professor de Luna is interested to pursue research on early African history that continues with the themes of affect and mobility that emerged from her first project. She is in the initial stages of a project that brings the contingent, local understandings and practices of mobility back into the story of the monolithic Bantu Expansions, a well-known chapter in early African History. She is also exploring word histories that point to the coproduction of new mineral processing technologies and products, novel ideas about political authority, social ties, and human sexuality, and changing visual, aural, and tactile experiences of the material world.
