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Affiliation Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington

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Mailing Address Liberal Studies Department Western Washington University 516 High Street Bellingham, Washington 98225-9064 USA

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Countries of Specialization Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia

Education Ph.D. Michigan State University, 2004

Research Interests Social history of Muslim Northeast Africa Islam and Muslim societies in Africa, with focus on Northeast Africa Northeast African history in transregional and global perspectives The Red Sea and Western Indian Ocean regions Urban history (Africa, Middle East, Indian Ocean) Historiography (‘Annales’, ‘Microstoria’, Global social history)

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Publications * SELECTED Red Sea Citizens: Cosmopolitan Society and Cultural Change in Massawa (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009). “Mapping Space and Mobility in the Red Sea Region, c. 1500-1950,” History Compass (forth.) “From bondage to freedom on the Red Sea coast: manumitted slaves in Egyptian Massawa, 1873- 1885,” Slavery & Abolition 34, No. 1 (2013): 135-157. “Guest editor’s introduction: Space, mobility, and translocal connections across the Red Sea area since 1500,” Northeast African Studies 12, No.1 (2012): ix-xxvi. “Red Sea translocals: Hadrami migration, entrepreneurship, and strategies of integration in Eritrea, 1840s-1970s,” Northeast African Studies 12, No. 1 (2012): 129-167. “Constructing and deconstructing the Tigre frontier space in the long nineteenth century,” In Gianfrancesco Lusini (ed.), History and Language of the Tigre-Speaking Peoples. Proceedings of the International Workshop, Naples, February 7-8, 2008, «Studi Africanistici. Serie Etiopica 8 » (Napoli: Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”, 2010): 33-50. “Endowing property and edifying power in a Red Sea Port: Waqf, Arab migrant entrepreneurs, and urban authority in Massawa, 1860s-1880s,” The International Journal of African Historical Studies 42, No. 2 (2009): 151-178. “Power without Pashas: the anatomy of Na’ib autonomy in Ottoman Eritrea (17th-19th c.),” Eritrean Studies Review 5, No. 1 (2007): 33-88 (special issue on pre-colonial Eritrea edited by Bairu Tafla). “A historical overview of Islam in Eritrea,” Die Welt des Islams 45, No. 2 (2005): 177-215. [REPRINTED in Andrew Rippin (ed.), World Islam: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies, Volume III. (London and New York: Routledge, 2008): 195-224]. “The Islamic and related writings of Eritrea,” In R. S. O’Fahey and J. O. Hunwick (eds.), Arabic Literature of Africa, Volume 13, III, Fascicle A. The Writings of the Muslim Peoples of Northeastern Africa (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2003): 1-17 (with R. S. O’Fahey). “Grand mufti, érudit et nationaliste érythréen: note sur la vie et l’oeuvre de cheikh Ibrâhîm al-Mukhtâr (1909-1969),” Chroniques Yéménites 10 (2002): 35-47. “Missionaries, education, and the state in the Italian colony of Eritrea,” In Holger Bernt Hansen and Michael Twaddle (eds.), Christian Missionaries and the State in the Third World (Oxford and Athens, OH: James Currey and Ohio University Press, 2002): 121-135.

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