Edward A. Alpers

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Professor of History
Affiliation	University of California, Los Angeles
Email	alpers@history.ucla.edu
Mailing Address	Department of History University of California at Los Angeles Box 951473 Los Angeles, California 90095-1473 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 310-825-2347 fax: 310-206-9630
Countries of Specialization	Tanzania.
Research Interests	My research interests focus on eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean from early times to the late nineteenth century, but I also am interested in the intersection of politics and culture in the twentieth century. Precolonial trade, accompanying cultural and social currents, Islam, women's history, and the African diaspora are my particular research and teaching interests. I am currently completing a long simmering political economy of eastern Tanzania in the nineteenth century while at the same time engaged in a long term study of the African diaspora in the Indian Ocean.
Publications	None.
Keywords	pre-colonial trade ; women ; Islam ; diaspora ; Indian Ocean