Dennis Laumann

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Professor
Affiliation	The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee
Email	dlaumann@memphis.edu
Mailing Address	Department of History The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee 38152-3450 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 901-678-3392 fax: 901-678-2720
Websites	https://umdrive.memphis.edu/dlaumann/public/home.html
Countries of Specialization	Ghana ; Togo
Education	PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Interests	Dr. Laumann is a specialist in West African history, especially the history of Ghana; colonialism; oral history; links between Cuba and Africa; and Marxist theory and history. He is a United States Fulbright Scholar and Research Affiliate of the University of Ghana. Dr. Laumann serves on the Advisory Board of the Ghana Studies Association; as co-editor of the Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana; and as co-editor-in-chief of Africa and the West.
Teaching Interests	At the University of Memphis, he teaches courses in African history, world history, and Marxism.
Publications	* Colonial Africa, 1884-1994 (Oxford University Press, 2013) * Remembering the Germans in Ghana (Peter Lang Publishing, in press) * Narratives of a 'Model Colony': German Togoland in Written and Oral Histories," German Colonialism and National Identity, edited by Michael Perraudin and Jürgen Zimmerer (Routledge, 2011), 278-291 * "Identity, Memory, and Oral History: German Colonialism and Ewe Ethnicity in Ghana," Africa and the West, 8 (April 2010), 129-161 "Domination and Resistance: Epidemic and Exile in the German Togoland Colony," Afrika Zamani, No. 17 (2009), 1-16 * "Che Guevara's Visit to Ghana," Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, New Series No. 9 (2005), 61-74 * "The History of the Ewe of Togo and Benin from Pre-Colonial Times," in The Ewe of Togo and Benin, edited by Benjamin Lawrence (Woeli Publishing, 2005), 14-28 * "Togo: Colonial Period: German Rule" and "Aja-Speaking Peoples: Aja, Fon, and Ewe, 17th & 18th Centuries," Encyclopedia of African History, edited by Kevin Shillington (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2005) * "A Historiography of German Togoland, or the Rise and Fall of a 'Model Colony,'" History in Africa 30 (2003), 195-211 * "Boniface I. Obichere, Pan-Africanism, and African History," Ufahamu 29, no. 1 (Winter 2001), 11-18 * "Compradores-in-arms: the Fante Confederation Project, 1868-1871," Ufahamu 21:1-2 (Winter/Spring 1993), 120-36
Keywords	Ghana; German Togoland ; Colonialism; Oral history; Cuba; Marxism.