Mary Dillard

Region of Interest

Africa

Primary Country of Residence

United States of America

Title

Assistant Professor of African History

Affiliation

Sarah Lawrence University, Bronxville, New York

Email

pending@columbia.edu

Mailing Address

Global Studies
Sarah Lawrence University
One Mead Way
Bronxville, New York 10708 USA

Countries of Specialization

West Africa ; Ghana

Research Interests

Education:
Ph.D., 2001, University of California, Los Angeles ; Ph.D. thesis: "Testing
freedom: a history of the West African Examinations Council, 1952-1979."
M.A., 1995, University of California, Los Angeles
B.A., 1990, Stanford University, Stanford, California

Research and teaching interests:
African history ; history of education in Ghana and West Africa ; African
American history.

Publications

"Objectivity and opportunism: the social power of mental measurement in
Anglophone West Africa," Ufahamu: the journal of the African Activist
Association, XXIV, 1, Winter 1996, pp. 22-41/

Keywords

African history ; African-American history; education.