Allen M. Howard

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Professor and Vice Chair for Graduate Education
Affiliation	Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Email	ahoward@rci.rutgers.edu
Mailing Address	Department of History Rutgers University 16 Seminary Pl. New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-1108 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 732-932-7941 fax: 732-932-6763
Websites	http://history.rutgers.edu/
Countries of Specialization	Sierra Leone
Research Interests	Activities: former member of Executive Committee and Program Chair, Center for African Studies, Rutgers University, ACAS, Mande Studies Association, SEA, AHA
Teaching Interests	Atlantic History (grad and undergrad), Seminar in Comparative History (grad), Global History, Modern Africa, West Africa, Southern Africa, African Cultural History, Seminar in African History
Publications	"19th Century Coastal Slave Trade and the British Abolition Campaign in Sierra Leone," Slavery and Abolition 27:1 (2006), 23-50. The Spatial Factor in African History: The Relationship of the Social, Material and Perceptual (co-edited; Brill Academic Publishers, 2005) Cities in Africa Past and Present (guest editor 10-article special issue of the Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines (2003). "Nodes, Networks, Landscapes, and Regions: Reading the Social History of Tropical Africa, 1800-1920," in A. M. Howard and R. M. Shain, eds., The Spatial Factor in African History: The Relationship of the Social, Material and Perceptual (Brill Academic Publishers, 2005). "Remarking on the Past: Spatial Structures and Dynamics in the Sierra Leone-Guinea Plain, 1860-1920s," in A. M. Howard and R. M. Shain, eds., The Spatial Factor in African History: The Relationship of the Social, Material and Perceptual (Brill Academic Publishers, 2005). "Cities in Africa, Past and Present: Contestation,Transformation, Discourse," Introduction to Cities in Africa, Past and Present special issue of the Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue Canadienne des Etudes Africaines 37: 2 &3 (2003), 197-235. "Contesting Commercial Space in Freetown, 1860-1930: Traders, Merchants, and Officials," Canadian Journal of African Studies Studies/Revue Canadienne des Etudes Africaines 37: 2 & 3 (2003), 236-268. "Mande Identity Formation in the Economic and Political Context of North-West Sierra Leone, 1750-1900," Paideuma 46 (2000), 13-35. "Mande and Fulbe Interaction and Identity in Northwestern Sierra Leone, Late Eighteenth through Early Twentieth Centuries," Mande Studies 1 (1999), 13-40.
Keywords	cities ; spatial analysis ; ethnicity ; West Africa.