Judith A. Byfield

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Associate Professor
Affiliation	Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Email	jab632@cornell.edu
Mailing Address	September 2013 thru June 2014: Institute for Advanced Studies School of Historical Studies 1 Einstein Drive Princeton, NJ 08540 Permanent address: Africana Studies & Research Center Cornell University 310 Triphammer Road Ithaca, New York 14850 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	September 2013 thru June 2014: Tel: (609) 734-8114 Fax: (609) 924-8399
Countries of Specialization	Nigeria
Research Interests	My research is primarily on women's social and economic history in Africa and the Caribbean. My current project is "The Great Upheaval: The Egba Women's Tax Revolt: Gender and Nationalist Politics in Nigeria, 1945-1954." Currently, I am on the editorial board of the Journal of African History and the Indiana University Press series "Blacks in the Diaspora."
Teaching Interests	I teach general survey courses on Africa and the Caribbean as well as upper level courses on Nationalism and Decolonization in Africa, Women and the State in Africa, and Textile Production and Social Use in Africa.
Publications	The bluest hands: a social and economic history of women dyers in Abeokuta (Nigeria), 1890-1940. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann; Oxford: James Currey, c2002. (263 p.)
Keywords	nationalism ; decolonization ; women ; state ; textile.