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Affiliation Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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Mailing Address Department of Middle Eastern and African History Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv 69978 Israel

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Research Interests Research fields: History of Africa, particularly West Africa; relations between Africans and African Americans Activities: Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; Former Vice-President and President of the Liberian Studies Association

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Publications * Books: 2003. With Nehemia Levtzion. The Emergence of the New African States, Unit 1: Introduction to the History of Africa. Tel Aviv: The Open University of Israel. (in Hebrew) 1997. Africans on African-Americans: The Creation and Uses of an African-American Myth. New York and London: New York University Press and Macmillan. 1999. With Aharon Layish, and Binyamin Newberger, eds. Africa - Islam, Christianity and Judaism; Anthology in honor of Professor Nehemia Levzion's 60th birthday, Magnes Publication, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1992. With Naomi Chazan, eds. African International Politics, 1960-1990, A Retrospective Assessment, Special Volume of Asian and African Studies Journal of the Israel Oriental Society 26.2. 1985. Black Colonialism: The Americo-Liberian Scramble for the Hinterland. Boulder, Colorado, and Jerusalem: Westview Press and the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University, Mount Scopus. Articles: Gershoni, Yekutiel. "The Search for a National Symbol in a Military Regime: The Case of Liberia." Civil Military Relations, Nation Building, and National Identity and Security: Comparative Perspectives. Ed. Constantine P. Danopoulos, Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi and Amir Bar-Or. Connecticut: Greenwood Press. Forthcoming. "The Military Ruler and Multiparty Elections." Globalization of Civil-Military Relations: Democratization, Reform and Security. Proc. of the Fourth Triannual Conference of the International Political Science Association's Research Committee on Armed Forces and Society, June 28-30, 2002. Bucharest: Enciclopedica Publishing House, 2002. 71-86. "Black Brothers, Black Adversaries - Black Immigrants and Africans in Liberia." Historia, Journal of the Historical Society of Israel 9 (2002): 117-137. (in Hebrew) "Common Goals, Different Ways: The UNIA and the NCBWA in West Africa." Journal of Third World Studies 22.2 (2001): 171-185. "Minority Rule and Political Trade-In." Liberian Studies Journal 27.1 (2001): 63-81.

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