Index of biographies by last name: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Elizabeth MacGonagle
Associate Professor/ History and African & African American Studies; at KU
since 2001
EDUCATION: Ph.D. Michigan State, 2002
M.A. Michigan State, 1996
B.A. Trinity College, CT, 1990
RESEARCH INTERESTS: African history and Comparative Black history with interests in social and cultural history and gender history.
FIELD RESEARCH EXPERIENCE: Professor MacGonagle's research focuses on processes of identity formation in African and Diasporan settings. Her first book draws on African oral histories, archival documents, and material culture to examine the shaping of identities over several centuries in the Ndau region of eastern Zimbabwe and central Mozambique. In 1998-1999 she interviewed Ndau elders in southeast Africa and consulted archives in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Portugal. In addition to fieldwork in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Ghana, and South Africa, she has also spent time in Namibia, Swaziland, Kenya, Zanzibar, and Togo.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
BOOK:
Crafting Identity in Zimbabwe and Mozambique
(Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2007).
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora.
REFEREED ARTICLES:
“Living with a Tyrant: Ndau Memories and Identities in the Shadow of Ngungunyana”
International Journal of African Historical Studies 41, 1 (2008): 29-53.
“From Dungeons to Dance Parties: Contested Histories of Ghana's Slave Forts”
Journal of Contemporary African Studies 24, 2 (May 2006): 1-12.
“Mightier than the Sword: The Portuguese Pen in Ndau History”
History in Africa, 28 (2001): 169-86.
COURSES TAUGHT AT KU:
WEBSITE:
“Onitsha Market Literature: From the Bookstalls of a Nigerian Market”
Companion Website (2003), http://onitsha.diglib.ku.edu
Context for 21 digitized pamphlets of Nigerian popular literature from the 1960s.
Sexuality and Gender in African History
The Historian’s Craft
Introduction to African History
Modern African History
Modern African History, Honors section
Senior Seminar in African & African American Studies
Graduate Colloquium in Comparative Women’s History
Graduate Colloquium on African History in Global Perspective
Graduate Seminar in African Studies
LANGUAGES: English, Portuguese and Ndau, a dialect of Shona
DISTINCTIONS:
ING Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Kansas, 2007
Friends of the Hall Center Book Subvention Award, University of Kansas, 2007
American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Grant, 2005
Fulbright Scholar Program, Lecturing Award, University of Iceland, 2004
Digital Library Initiative Development Grant, University of Kansas, 2003
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award, 1998
Vice-President of the Lusophone African Studies Organization (LAÇO),
2001-2005
Executive Committee Member of the Mid-America Alliance for African Studies,
2003-2005
Beverly Mack
Professor, African and African American Studies, at KU since
1993
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. African Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1981
M.A. African Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1978
B.A. English/Anthropology, University of Connecticut, 1973
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
African Muslim women's literature and culture.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Muslim Women Sing: Hausa Popular Song, Indiana University Press, 2004.
"Muslim Women's Educational Activities the Maghreb: Investigating and Redefining
Scholarship." Forthcoming, The Maghreb Review, February 2004.
"Nana Asma'u (1793-1864), Muslim woman Scholar" for the website "Women
in World History" (http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/wwhcasestudies.html), History
Department, George Mason University, Kelly Schrum et al. February 2004.
"Unpacking Evidence: Personal Narratives" for the website "World
History Matters" (http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/unpacking/acctsmain.html),
History Department, George Mason University, Kelly Schrum et al. September 2003.
"Lindsey Collen's The Rape of Sita." In African Novels in the Classroom
Ed. Jean Hay. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Press, 2000, pp. 75-84.
One Woman's Jihad: Nana Asma'u, Scholar and Scribe (with Jean Boyd). Indiana
University Press, 2000.
COURSES TAUGHT AT KU:
Islamic Literature
Women and Islam
Muslim Women's (Auto)biography
Southern African Literature
Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced, and Intensive Hausa courses
Hausa Culture
African Oral Narrative
LANGUAGES:
English, native fluency; Hausa, fluent speaking, reading, writing; Krio, competent
speaking; French, intermediate speaking, reading, writing; Arabic, beginning
speaking, reading, writing
DISTINCTIONS:
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship 2001
KU Graduate Research Fund Grant 2001
Carnegie Corporation International Research Fellowship 2000
African Studies Association Text and Translation Book Award 2000
Mortar Board Outstanding Educator Award 1999
Phi Beta Delta member 1998
KU Graduate Research Fund Grant 1997
Michelle McKinley
Visiting Associate Professor, Law School
EDUCATION:
J.D. Harvard Law School, cum laude, 1995.
M.Phil. Social Anthropology, 1988, Oxford University (advisers: Godfrey Lienhardt, Terence Ranger, Wendy James).
Wellesley College, B.A. cum laude, Internatinal/Third World Studies, 1985.
COURSES TAUGHT AT KU:
Public International Law
Human Rights Law
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Her current research project is an in-depth analysis of divorce petitions among the Afro-Peruvian population during the colonial period until the 1850's. While most studies have focused on divorce petitions between Spanish men and Afro-Peruvian women based on racial inequality, she is specifically interested in petitions for divorce and annulment based on self-perceptions of racial inequality between couples who were classified according to stratified ethnic categories of mulattos, zambos, pardos, mestizos, quadroons, and quinteroons under Spanish colonial law. She has also begun to examine petitions for annulment between free blacks and mulattos during the colonial period prior tothe War of Independence.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
LANGUAGES:
English, Fluent in Spanish, Reading Knowledge of French & Portugese
DISTINCTIVES:
Women's Refugee Project, Cambridge, MA: 1993. Represented womwn form from Rwanda and Haiti seeking political asylum due to gender-based persecution committed against women in their home countries. Conducted client interviews. researched practices of rape and endemic domestice violence as means of political persecution against women.
Paul Mirecki
Associate Professor and Chair, Religious Studies Department
EDUCATION:
Th.D., Harvard University, 1986
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Ancient Mediterranean Religions, and Ancient Egyptian Papyri in Coptic and Middle
Egyptian.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
"A Seventh-Century Coptic Limestone in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford"
"Evangelion-Incipits Amulets in Greek and Coptic: Towards a Typology"
"The Coptic Wizard's Hoard"
"The Coptic Manichaean Synaxeis Codex: Codicology and Intertextuality"
"A Recently Identified Scroll of the Egyptian Amduat (ca. 950 BCE) in the
University of Kansas Collection"
COURSES TAUGHT AT KU:
Understanding the Bible
Early Christian Literature (Greek and Coptic Papyri)
Ancient Egyptian Culture and Religion
Middle Egyptian Language (hieroglyphs)
Coptic Language
LANGUAGES:
English, reading knowledge of French, German, ancient Greek, ancient Egyptian
in Coptic and Middle Egyptian (hieroglyphs).
DISTINCTIONS:
National Endowment for the Humanities: Summer Stipend.
American Council of Learned Societies: Research & Travel Grant.
Garth Myers
Professor, AAAS and Department of Geography; at KU since 1995
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., UCLA, 1993
M.A., UCLA, 1986
B. A., (Honors), Bowdoin College, 1984
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
African political and cultural geography, development studies, urban studies,
and environmental geography in Africa.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Disposable Cities: Garbage, Governance and Sustainable Development in Urban Africa, 2005, Ashgate Press.
"Four Caveats for Participatory Solid Waste Management in Lusaka, Zambia." Urban Forum 15(2):109-133.
Verandahs of Power: Colonialism and Space in Urban Africa (Syracuse: Syracuse
University Press, 2003).
"Colonial Geography and Masculinity in Eric Dutton's Kenya Mountain, Gender,
Place and Culture 9(1) 2002: 23-38.
"Local Communities and the New Environmental Planning: A Case Study from
Zanzibar," Area 34(2) 2002: 1-11.
"Protecting Privacy in Foreign Fields," Geographical Review 91(1-2)
2001: 192-200.
"Introductory Human Geography Textbook Representations of Africa," The Professional Geographer 53(4) 2001: 522-32.
COURSES TAUGHT AT KU:
Environmental Issues in Africa
Africa's Human Geographies
Geography of African Development
Cities and Development
Introduction to Human Geography
Colonialism in Africa
Advanced KiSwahili
LANGUAGES:
English, fluent in KiSwahili, reading knowledge of Frenchand basic Chinyanja..
DISTINCTIONS:
Research Grants from: Fulbright Africa Regional Research Program (2002-3), National
Geographic Society Committee on Research and Exploration (1999), National Science
Foundation (1999 and 2002), Association of American Geographers (1999), and
various internal granting agencies at KU.
Director, US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
University Affiliation grant for Partnership between the University of Kansas
and University of Zambia (2000-2003).
Kemper Foundation Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, 2000.
Teacher Appreciation Award for Graduate Teaching in Geography, KU Center for
Teaching Excellence, 1999.
Research in Zanzibar, 1995, 1997, 1999, and 2000; Malawi, 1997; Kenya, 1997;
and Zambia, 2000, 2002, and 2003.
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