Charles Ambler

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Dean of the Graduate School, Professor of History.
Affiliation	University of Texas, El Paso
Email	cambler@utep.edu
Mailing Address	University of Texas El Paso, Texas 79968 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 915-747-5725 fax: 915-747-7522
Countries of Specialization	Eastern Africa.
Research Interests	History of alcohol use and control in British Africa; history of leisure in modern Africa; film, mass media and African audiences; regions, ethnicity and identify in eastern Africa.
Publications	"Popular Films and Colonial Audiences," American Historical Review 106 (2001): 81-105. "East Africa: Metropolitan Action and Local Initiative," Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. V: Historiography, ed. by Robin Winks, 1999, pp. 500-512. Liquor and Labor in Southern Africa, edited with J. Crush, Ohio Univ. Press, 1992.
Keywords	alcohol use and control ; leisure ; film ; mass media ; ethnicity ; identity ; Eastern Africa.