l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Professor and Vice Chair for Graduate Education

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

ahoward@rci.rutgers.edu

Department of History
Rutgers University
16 Seminary Pl.
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-1108 USA

phone: 732-932-7941
fax: 732-932-6763

http://history.rutgers.edu/

Sierra Leone

Activities: former member of Executive Committee and Program Chair, Center
for African Studies, Rutgers University, ACAS, Mande Studies Association,
SEA, AHA

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

"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.

cities ; spatial analysis ; ethnicity ; West Africa.