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Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
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Middle Tennessee State University Box 23, MTSU, Murfreesboro, TN 37132
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Gabon
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Social history of colonial Gabon. I spent over a year on a Fulbright IIE grant in Libreville in 1999-2000 and am interested in town life, the rise of the timber industry, gender and racial identities, and food supply in Libreville during the colonial period.
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BOOKS Co-editor with Carina Ray of Navigating African Maritime History, to be published in the Research in Maritime History series, Memorial University of Newfoundland Press, 2010 A Workman is Worthy of His Meat: Food and Colonialism in the Gabon Estuary (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007) PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES "Searching for Success: Boys, Family Aspirations, and Opportunities in Rural Gabon, ca. 1900-1940," Journal of Family History (forthcoming) "Rocky Rapids and Broken Oars: River Travel, Commercial Rivalries, and Political Divides in Oskar Lenz's Gabonese Voyages, 1874-1877," Canadian Journal of History (forthcoming) "Manhood, State Power, and Scandals in the Gabon Estuary, 1940-1946," Outre-Mers (forthcoming) "Cruel Guards and Anxious Chiefs: Fang Masculinities and State Power in the Gabon Estuary, 1920-1960," Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines (forthcoming) "After The Last Slave Ship, The Sea Remains: Mobility and Atlantic Networks in Gabon, c. 1860-1920," Atlantic Studies 4:2 (2007), 153-172. "Hunger and Consumer Protest in Colonial Africa during World War I: The Case of the Gabon Estuary, 1914-1920," Food, Culture, and Society 10:2 (2007), 239-260. "Maurice Briault, André Raponda Walker, and the Value of Missionary Anthropology in Colonial Gabon," Le Fait Missionnaire 19 (2006), 71-95. "My Matrimonial Bureau: Masculine Concerns and Presbyterian Mission Evangelization in the Gabon Estuary, ca. 1900-1915," Journal of Religion in Africa 36:2 (2006), 200-223. "Forging Permits and Failing Hopes: African Participation in the Gabonese Timber Industry, ca. 1920-1940," African Economic History 33 (2005), 147-171. "Civilized Attire: Dress, Cultural Change and Status in Libreville, Gabon, ca. 1860-1914," Cultural and Social History 2:2 (2005), 189-214. "Troubles at the Office: Clerks, State Authority, and Social Conflict in the Gabon Estuary, 1920-1945," Canadian Journal of African Studies 38:1 (2004), 58-87. "Une Babylone Noire: Interracial Unions in Colonial Libreville, c. 1870-1914," French Colonial History 4 (2003), 145-170. "Leopard Men, Slaves, and Social Conflict in Libreville (Gabon), c. 1860-1879," International Journal of African Historical Studies 34:3 (2001), 619-638. BOOK CHAPTERS "Unsteady is the Cross: Catholic Missionaries, Catechists, and the Perils of Christian Living in the Gabon Estuary, ca. 1914-1945," in Historiographie du Gabon, état des lieux et travaux en cours, edited by Clotaire Messi Me Nang (Paris: Karthala, forthcoming) "Marcel Lefebvre in Gabon: Revival, Missionaries, and the Colonial Roots of Catholic Traditionalism," in Sarah Curtis and Kevin Callahan (eds.), Encountering French History (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming) "Libreville: Die Stadt der Freien," in Fotofieber: Bilder aus West- und Zentralafrika Die Reisen von Carl Passavant 1883-85, edited by Jürg Schneider, Ute Röschenthaler, and Bernhard Gardi (Basel: Christoph Merian Verlag Basel, 2005), 163-176. "Where Every Language is Heard: Senegalese and Vietnamese Migrants in Colonial Libreville, 1860-1914," in African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective, edited by Steven Salm and Toyin Falola (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2005), 191-212.
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