Frederick Cooper

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Professor
Affiliation	New York University, New York
Email	fred.cooper@nyu.edu
Mailing Address	Department of History New York University 53 Washington Square South New York, New York 10012 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 212-998-8606 fax: 212 995-4017
Countries of Specialization	East Africa
Research Interests	20th century African history, colonization and decolonization, labor history, the social sciences and the colonial world
Publications	Books 2002 Africa since 1940: the past of the present. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 1996 Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Co-editor of: 2000 With Rebecca Scott and Thomas Holt. Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. 1997 With Ann Stoler. Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. 1997 With Randall Packard. International Development and the Social Sciences: Essays in the History and Politics of Knowledge. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. Articles: 2002 "Networks, Moral Discourse, and History." Pp. 23-46 in Thomas Callaghy, Ronald Kassimir, and Robert Latham, eds., Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2001 "What Is the Concept of Globalization Good For? An African Historian's Perspective." African Affairs, 100 (2001): 189-213. 2000 "Africa's Pasts and Africa's Historians." Canadian Journal of African Studies 34 (2000): 298-336.
Keywords	slavery ; colonization ; decolonization ; labor history ; social sciences ; colonial world.