PROFESSORS

Brett Berliner: Ph.D. Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst | M.A. Univ. of Washington, Seattle | B.A. Univ. of California, Berkeley
Associate Professor; Graduate and Honors Faculty

Interests: Modern Europe and France; European cultural history; race in Europe
Courses: Emerging Europe; Europe from the Restoration through World War II; Contemporary Europe; World History I & II
Select Publications:

• "Mephistopheles and Monkeys: Rejuvenation, Race, and Sexuality in Popular Culture in Interwar France," Journal of the History of Sexuality 13:3 (2004): 306-25.
• Ambivalent Desire: the Exotic Black Other in Jazz-Age France (Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2002).
• "Dancing Dangerously: Colonizing the Exotic at the Bal Nègre in the Inter-War Years," French Cultural Studies 12:1 (2001): 59-75.

Charles Chikeka: Ph.D., M.Phil., M.A. Columbia Univ. | M.P.A., B.A. Univ. of Minnesota
Associate Professor

Interests: Pre-colonial and contemporary Africa
Courses: World History I & II
Select Publications:

• European Hegemony and African Resistance: 1880-1990 (Edwin Mellen Press, 2004).
• Decolonization Process in Africa during the Post-War Era, 1960-1990 (Edwin Mellen Press, 1998).
• Africa and the European Economic Community, 1957-1992 (Edwin Mellen Press, 1993).
• Britain, France, and the New African States: a Study of Post-Independence Relationships, 1960-1985 (Edwin Mellen Press, 1990).

Jeremiah Dibua: Ph.D. Univ. of Benin | M.A., B.A. Univ. of Ibadan
Professor; Graduate Coordinator; Graduate Faculty

Interests: Modern Africa; African-Diaspora; African development and public policy
Courses: Undergraduate: Africa to 1875; Africa since 1870; African Diplomatic History; Intro to the African Diaspora.  Graduate: White Supremacy and Black Nationalism in the US, Brazil, & South Africa; Advanced Readings in the African Diaspora
Select Publications:

• Modernization and the Crisis of Development in Africa: the Nigerian Experience (Ashgate Publishers, 2006).
• "Citizenship and Resource Control in Nigeria: the Case of the Minority Communities in the Niger Delta," Afrika Spectrum 39:1 (2005): 5-28.
• "Nigeria: Conferences, Commissions and the Nigerian Constitution, 1956-60" (pp. 1107-9); "Nigeria: Murtala Muhammed, Obasanjo and Return to Civilian Rule, 1975-79 (pp. 1115-17); "Nigeria: Second Republic, 1979-83" (pp. 1117-18); "Nigeria: from Opposition in the 1990s to the Fourth Republic" (pp. 1123-25); and "World Bank, IMF and Structural Adjustment" (pp. 1664-66); in Encyclopedia of African History, Vol. 2, ed. K. Shillington (New York, 2005).
• "Conflict over Control of Natural Resources in Nigeria: the Case of the Oil-Producing Niger Delta Communities of the South-South States, 1990-2004," Lagos Historical Review 4 (2004): 142-72.
• "Students and the Struggle against Authoritarianism in University Governance in Nigeria," in African Universities in the Twenty-First Century, eds. T. Zeleza and A. Olukoshi (Dakar, 2004), 459-79.
• "Collapse of Purpose: Ibrahim Babangida, 1985-1993," in Troubled Journey: Nigeria since the Civil War, eds. L.A. Nwachuku and G.N. Uzoigwe (Lanham, MD, 2004), 207-35.
• Co-author (w/B. Ibhawoh), "Deconstructing Ujamaa: the Legacy of Julius Nyerere in the Quest for Social and Economic Development in Africa," African Journal of Political Science 8:1 (2003): 59-83.
• "The Organization of African Unity and Conflict Resolution" (pp. 341-61); and "Economic Crisis and Structual Adjustment Programs" (pp. 509-29), in Africa, vol. 5: Contemporary Africa, ed. T. Falola (Durham, NC, 2003), 341-61.
• "Agricultural Modernization, the Environment and Sustainable Production in Nigeria, 1970-85," African Economic History 30 (2002): 107-37.
• "Pan-Africanism," in Africa, vol. 4: the End of Colonial Rule, ed. T. Talola (Durham, 2002), 29-48.
• "Devaluation and Economic Crisis: a Political Economy Analysis," in The Transformation of Nigeria, ed. A.O. Oyebade (Trenton, 2002), 261-88.

Jelani M. Favors: Ph.D., M.A. Ohio State Univ. | B.A. North Carolina A&T State Univ.
Assistant Professor

Interests: 20th-century African-American history: civil rights movements, student activism, black power, black popular culture
Courses: African-Americans in United States History; History of the US I & II
Select Scholarship:

• Shelter in a Time of Storm: Black Colleges and the Rise of Student Activism in Jackson, Mississippi (Ph.D. dissertation, The Ohio State University, 2006).
• "A Continuous Struggle: an Introduction to African-American History," given at the Columbus Urban league's Project Brotherhood Program (Columbus, 2004).
• "Moving a Movement: Black Student Activism as an Instrument for Social Reconstruction," given at the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History (Milwaukee, 2003).
• "In Our Own Image: Reconstructing Positive Self Identity among African-American Youth," keynote address at the Twin Rivers Chapter of the Links, Inc. (Columbus, 2003).

Mary Ann Fay: Ph.D. Georgetown Univ.
Associate Professor

Interests: Social and Cultural History of the Middle East; 18th and 19th-century Egypt; women and gender; the Modern Gulf
Courses: History of the Islamic World; Historical Sources of Conflict in the Middle East; World History I & II
Select Publications:

• Unveiling The Harem: The Paradox of Seclusion in Eighteenth-Century Cairo (in progress).
• "International Feminism and the Women’s Movement in Egypt, 1904-1923: a Reappraisal of Categories and Legacies,” in Family Ties and Ideational Changes in Egypt, Iran and Tunisia, ed. H. Rashad and K. Yount (forthcoming, Routledge).
• "From Concubines to Capitalists: Women, Property and Power in Eighteenth-Century Egypt," Journal of Women's History (Autumn 1998); anthologized in Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History, ed. T. Ballantyne and A. Burton (Duke UP, 2005).
• “From Warrior Grandees to Domesticated Bourgeoisie: the Transformation of the Elite Egyptian Household into a Western-style Nuclear Family,” in Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, Gender, ed. B. Doumani, Series on the Social and Economic History of the Middle East (SUNY Press, 2003). 
• Editor, Auto/Biography and the Creation of Identity and Community in the Middle East (Palgrave, 2001).
• “Ottoman Women through the Eyes of Mary Wortley Montagu,” in Unfolding the Orient: Travellers in the Near East and Egypt, eds. P. Starkey and J. Starkey (I.B Taurus & Co., 2000).
• "Women and Waqf: Towards a Reconsideration of Women's Place in the Mamluk Household," International Journal of Middle East Studies 29:1 (February 1997): 33-51.
• “Women and Waqf: Property, Power and the Domain of Gender in Eighteenth-Century Egypt," in Women in the Ottoman Empire:  Middle Eastern Women in the Early Modern Period, ed. M. Zilfi (E.J. Brill, 1997).
• “The Ties that Bound: Women and Households in Eighteenth-Century Egypt," in Women, the Family and Divorce Laws in Islamic History, ed. A. Sonbol (Syracuse UP, 1996).
• "Was the Mamluk House a Home?  Houses and Households in Eighteenth-Century Egypt," in Histoire economique et sociale de l'Empire ottoman et de la Turquie (1326-1960): Actes du sixieme congres international tenu a Aix-en-Provence du 1er au 4 juillet 1992), ed. D. Panzac (Collection Turcica, 1995).

Debra Newman Ham: Ph.D., B.A. Howard Univ. | M.A. Boston Univ.
Professor; Graduate Faculty

Interests: African-American; women; archival methods; public history
Select Publications:

• Foreword, A Colored Woman in a White World, by M.C. Terrell (Humanity Books, 2005).
• "Guide to Records about Black Participants in the American Revolution from the War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records," Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Spring 2003).
• Co-developer, Teaching Cultural Heritage Preservation: a Course Outline (Baltimore and Washington D.C., 2002).
• "Government Documents," in The Harvard Guide to African American History, ed. E. Higgenbotham et al. (Harvard UP, 2001).
• "Manuscript Curators and Specialists," in Public History: Essays from the Field, ed. J.B. Gardner and P.S. LaPaglia (Krieger Publishing, 1999).
• Editor, The African American Odyssey (Library of Congress, 1998).
• Library of Congress Informational Bulletins: "The African American Odyssey" (57:2 (1998): 30-36); "'We Shall Overcome, Someday'": Collections Relating to the Civil Rights Movement in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress (Feb. 12, 1990: 67-70); and joint author, "Papers of Kenneth Bancroft Clark Organized: Psychologist Influenced Brown Case 40 Years Ago" (Oct. 31, 1994: 405-6).
• "Thurgood Marshall," in Library of Congress Acquisitions: Manuscript Division, 1991 (Library of Congress, 1992), 28-32.
• "For such a time as this: Lorraine Williams and the Howard University Department of History," Negro History Bulletin 61:3-4 (1998): 56-66.
• "Guiding Light," Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration 29:2 (1997): 161-4.
• "African-American Workers in Virginia: the Slavery Era," Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society 13:1 (1994): 13-18.
• "Commentary," The American Archivist 57:1 (1994): 106-9.
• "The Role of African American Women in the Founding of Liberia," in Global Dimensions of the African Diaspora, ed. J.E. Harris, 2nd ed. (Howard UP, 1993), 369-85.
• "Select Checklist of Twentieth Century Civil Rights Collections in the Manuscript Division, reprinted in Black Music Research Bulletin 12:1 (1990): 9-14.
• "Jesus and Justice: Nannie Helen Burroughs and the Struggle for Civil Rights," Humanity and Society 12:3 (1988): 267-77.
• "Black Women Workers in the Twentieth Century," and "Sage," Scholarly Journal on Black Women (Spring 1986).
• "The Propaganda and the Truth: Black Women and World War II," Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women in the Military 4:4 (1986): 72-92.
• Black History: a Guide to Civilian Records in the National Archives (National Archives, 1984).

John D. Hosler: Ph.D. Univ. of Delaware | M.A., M.A., B.A. Iowa State Univ.
Assistant Professor; Honors Faculty

Interests: Medieval Europe; pre-modern military history; pre-modern England
Courses: Ancient World; Medieval Europe; History of England I & II; the Crusades; World History I & II
Select Publications:

• "Revisiting Mercenaries under Henry Fitz Empress, 1167-1188," in Mercenaries and Paid Men: The Mercenary Identity in the Middle Ages, ed. J. France (Brill, 2008), 33-42.
• Henry II: a Medieval Soldier at War, 1147-1189 (Brill, 2007).
• "William of Newburgh, Henry II, and the Development of English Anti-Judaism," in Christian Attitudes towards the Jews in the Middle Ages: a Casebook, ed. M. Frassetto (Routledge, 2007), 167-82.
• "The Brief Military Career of Thomas Becket," Haskins Society Journal 15 (2006): 88-100.
• "Henry II's Military Campaigns in Wales, 1157 and 1165," Journal of Medieval Military History 2 (2004): 53-71.

Charles Johnson, Jr.: Ph.D. Howard Univ. | M.A., B.A. Morgan State Univ.
Associate Professor; Graduate Faculty

Interests: African-American and American military history
Courses: Undergraduate: Civil War and Reconstruction; American Military Experience; Colloquium in US History; History of the US I & II.  Graduate: Antebellum Free Blacks, 1800-1860; African Americans to 1900; African Americans in the Twentieth Century; Civil War and Reconstruction; Colloquium in US History; The US at War in the Twentieth Century; Directed Readings; Seminar in the Twentieth Century US; Supervised Research; Thesis Guidance
Select Publications:

• African Americans and ROTC (McFarland, 2002).
• "If We Must Die": African Americans in the World Wars," in The African American Odyssey, ed. Debra Newman Ham (Library of Congress, 1998).
• African American Soldiers in the National Guard (Greenwood Press, 1992).
• "Frazier A. Boutelle," "Arthur Brooks," "Arthur Brown," "Christian Fleetwood," and "James Walker," in Dictionary of American Negro Biography, eds. R.W. Logan and M. Winston (Norton, 1982).
• "Pea Island: the United States Coast Guard's Black Life-Saving Station," Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society 3 (1982): 67-82.
• "Black Seminoles: their History and Quest for Land," Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society 1 (1980): 45-58.
• "The First Separate Battalion, District of Columbia National Guard," and "The 54th Massachusetts Regiment in the Siege of Fort Wagner," in The Afro-American Bicentennial Commission Report (Afro-American Bicentennial Commission, 1976).

Timothy Kim: Ph.D., M.A. Univ. of Maryland, College Park | B.A. Shin Hung Univ.
Associate Professor

Interests: Korea and Far East
Courses: East Asia in Modern Times; History of Modern China; History of Modern Japan; World History I & II

Perry Kyles: Ph.D. Florida International Univ. | B.S. Texas Southern Univ.
Assistant Professor

Interests: History of Slavery and the Slave-Trade in the Modern World; Business and Economic History; African Diaspora
Courses: Comparative Slavery in the African Diaspora; History of American Business and Industry; Intro to African Diaspora
Select Publications:

• "The Stono Rebellion," in The Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora (ABC-CLIO, forthcoming).
• "Convict Labor in Australia" and "Reparations: the Argument for Retribution," in The Encyclopedia of Slavery (Macmillan, 1998).

Robert Morrow: Ph.D., M.A. Univ. of Maryland, College Park | M.P.A. American Univ. | B.A. College of Wooster (OH)
Assistant Professor; Honors Faculty

Interests: Post-1945 America; media; public broadcasting; cultural & intellectual history
Courses: Social History of the American Motion Picture; History of American Broadcasting; Vietnam War in Myth, Memory, and History; History of the US I & II
Select Publications:

• Sesame Street and the Reform of Children's Television (Johns Hopkins UP, 2005).

Annette Palmer: Ph.D., M.A. Fordham Univ. | B.A. Carleton Univ.
Associate Professor; Honors Faculty; Chairperson

Interests: Commonwealth; military
Courses: Writing and Problem-Solving in History
Select Publications:

• World War II in the Caribbean: a Study of Anglo-American Partnership and Rivalry (Black Academy Press, 1998).

Lawrence Peskin: Ph.D., M.A. Univ. of Maryland, College Park | B.A. Univ. of Chicago
Associate Professor; Graduate and Honors Faculty

Interests: Early America
Courses: The American Colonies; American Society from the Revolution to the Civil War; American Constitutional History; Urban History of the US; History of the US I & II
Select Publications:

• Captives and Countrymen: Barbary Slavery and the American Public Sphere (forthcoming).
• Manufacturing Revolution: the Intellectual Origins of American Industry (Johns Hopkins UP, 2004).
• "The Lessons of Independence: How the Algerian Crisis Shaped Early-American History," Diplomatic History (2004).
• "Pirates and the Geography of Knowledge," in Earth Ways, eds. G. Backhaus and J. Murungi (Lexington Books, 2004).
• "How the Republicans Learned to Love Manufacturing: the First Parties and the 'New Economy,'" Journal of the Early Republic (1998).

Glenn O. Phillips: Ph.D. Howard Univ. | M.A. Andrews Univ. | B.A. Atlantic Union College
Professor; Graduate Faculty

Interests: Africa Diaspora; 19th-century Caribbean; social and migration/ immigration history
Courses: Undergraduate: History of Latin America and the Caribbean Area I & II; Introduction to the African Diaspora (honors); Comparative Slavery in the African Diaspora.  Graduate: History of the Caribbean; Readings in Caribbean History; Dissertation Seminar; Dissertation Writing
Select Publications:

• "Nursing in the Caribbean" and "Garfield Sobers," in Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History in the Americas (MacMillan Reference, 2006).
• Co-author (with S. E. Chapelle), African-American Leaders of Maryland (Maryland Historical Society Press, 2005).
• "The Future for Young Historians," Phi Alpha Theta Honors Society Induction Ceremony (Columbia Union College, Tacoma Park, MD, 28 March 2005).
• "Baby Joe Gans 1874-1910," in Maryland Online Encyclopedia (August 2004).
• Editor, The African Diaspora Experience, 3rd ed. (Tapestry Press, 1998-2003).

Jo Ann Robinson: Ph.D., M.A. Johns Hopkins Univ. | B.A. Knox College
Professor; Graduate Faculty

Interests: 20th century America; oral history; social history; protest, pacifism, and non-violence
Courses: Undergraduate: History of the Civil Rights Movement; Oral History Approaches to the Study of History.  Graduate: History of the Civil Rights Movement; Oral History of 20th Century America; Oral History Practicum; Non-Violent Protest in the 20th Century; Historiography and Historical Methods
Select Publications:

• "Affirmative Action in the United States," in Race and Inequality. World Perspectives on Affirmative Action, ed. E. Kennedy-Dubourdieu (Ashgate Publishing, 2006), 11-42.
• Education as my Agenda: Gertrude Williams, Race, and the Baltimore Public Schools (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005).
• Affirmative Action: a Documentary History (Greenwood Press, 2001).
• Abraham went out: a Biography of A.J. Muste (Temple UP, 1981).
• "A.J. Muste, Prophet in the Wilderness of the Modern World," in Peace Heroes in 20th Century America, ed. C. DeBenedetti (Indiana UP, 1986).

Sarah L. Smiley: Ph.D., M.A. Univ. of Kansas | B.A. Univ. of Cincinnati
Assistant Professor

Interests: Urban and historical geography; East Africa; urban planning
Courses: Introduction to Geography; Principles of Human Geography; Geography of Africa
Select Scholarship:

• Patterns of Urban Life and Urban Segregation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Kansas, 2007).
• “Legacies of Colonial Urban Planning on Contemporary Racial Relations in Dar es Salaam,” Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association (2007).
• “Colonial Urban Planning and Racial Segregation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania”, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (2007).
• “Overcoming the Colonial Legacy in Dar es Salaam,” invited paper at the Kansas African Studies Center Seminar Series on Cities in Africa (2007).

Rosalyn Terborg-Penn: Ph.D. Howard Univ. (contact at 443-885-3190)
Professor, Graduate Faculty

Interests: 19th & 20th Century African-American Women; Slavery in America; African Diaspora
Courses: Graduate: Trends in Historiography; Seminar in African-American History; Dissertation Guidance; Dissertation Seminar
Select Publications:

• African-American Women in the Struggle for the Vote: 1850-1920 (Indiana UP, 1998).
• Women in Africa and the African Diaspora: a Reader, edited with A.B. Rushing (Howard UP, 1997).
• The Afro-American Woman: Struggles and Images, edited with S. Harley (Black Classic Press, 1997).

Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani: Ph.D. Univ. of South Africa | M.Phil. Univ. of London | M.A. University of Lagos  B.A. Lagos State Univ.
Associate Professor; Graduate and Honors Faculty; Acting Director of African Studies Program

Interests: African History; Nationalism and Intellectual History; Urban History; African Diaspora
Courses: Undergraduate: Introduction to African Diaspo0ra; History of Africa to 1875.  Graduate: Pre-Colonial Sub-Sahara Africa; Colonial and Contemporary Sub-Sahara Africa
Select Publications:

• Culture and Customs of Ethiopia: Culture and Customs of Africa Series, with Solomon A. Getahun (forthcoming, Greenwood Press).
• Editor, Africa and the Wider World (forthcoming, McGraw Hill).
• Editor, Nigeria's Urban History Past and Present (University Press of America, 2006).
• Britain, Leftist Nationalists and the Transfer of Power in Nigeria, 1945-1965 (Routledge, 2005).

LECTURERS (by course)

World History (HIST 101 & 102)

Ms. Brenda A. Brown: M.A. Cornell Univ., B.A. Morgan State Univ. | Africa; African literature and dance; Swahili and Woloff

Mr. Homer Fleetwood: M.A. Howard Univ., B.A. Univ. of California, Irvine | African Diaspora; black Los Angeles in the 19th and 20th centuries; African-American intellectual history

Ms. Gloria Marrow: M.A., B.A. Morgan State Univ. | African-American and African-Native American history; civil rights/anti-apartheid movts

Ms. Jyoti Mohan: M.A. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, M.A. Univ. of Delhi, B.A. St. Stephen's College (India) | Race in America; colonialism

Dr. Sebastian Swann: Ph.D., M.A. London Univ., M.I.A. Tsukuba Univ. (Japan), B.A. Oxford Univ. | Modern east Asian history and politics; 20th-century China and Japan; unconventional warfare

Dr. Aubrey Thompson: Ph.D., M.A. Howard Univ., B.A. Univ. of Guyana | Latin America; Caribbean history and culture; African Diaspora

(also taught by Mr. Clarence Davis)

History of the US (HIST 105 & 106)

Mr. Herbert Brewer: African-American history; Atlantic world

Ms. Clementine Carr: M.S., B.A. Morgan State University | Civil War; civil rights; World Wars; Western art history

Dr. Susanne Dewberry-Cole: Ph.D. Miami Univ., M.A., B.A. Missouri State Univ. | 19th-century American women

Mr. Daniel Gregory: M.A. Antioch University, B.A. Skidmore College | Civil War origins; national identities and the antebellum South; history of journalism; American foreign policy

Mr. Charles Houston: M.A. Univ. of Pittsburgh, B.A. Duquesne Univ. | Civil rights in inter-war years; black abolitionism

Dr. Linda Noel: Ph.D. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, M.A. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, B.A. Northwestern Univ. | 19th-century America; immigration

(also taught by Mr. Homer Fleetwood and Dr. Aubrey Thompson)

Introduction to the African Diaspora (HIST 350)

Dr. Arthur E. Burt: Ph.D. Univ. of Toronto | Caribbean; African Diaspora

Mr. Derick Hendricks: M.A. Univ. of the Virgin Islands, B.A. Texas Southern Univ. | African Diaspora; Caribbean; post-1945 America

(also taught by Mr. Homer Fleetwood, Ms. Gloria Marrow, and Dr. Aubrey Thompson)