Ghislaine Lydon

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Associate Professor
Affiliation	University of California, Los Angeles
Email	Lydon@history.ucla.edu
Mailing Address	Department of History University of California-Los Angeles 6265 Bunche Hall Los Angeles, California 90095-1473 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 310-825-4214 fax: 310-206-9630
Countries of Specialization	Mali ; Mauritania.
Research Interests	Specializing in Western African history with a focus on business and family history.
Publications	Books On Trans-Saharan trails : Islamic law, trade networks, and cross-cultural exchange in nineteenth-century Western Africa. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Sous la direction de David Robinson et Jean-Louis Triaud ; Ghislaine Lydon, assistane éditoriale. Le temps des marabouts: itinéraires et stratégies islamiques en Afrique occidentale française v. 1880-1960. Paris: Karthala, c1997. Journal articles 2008 "Contracting caravans: partnership and profit in nineteenth and early twentieth-century trans-Saharan trade," Journal of Global History March 2008, Vol. 3 Issue 1: 89-113. 2007 "Islamic legal culture and slave-ownership contests in nineteenth-century Sahara," International Journal of African Historical Studies vol. 40, no. 3, 391-439. "Droit islamique et droits de la femme d'après les registres du Tribunal Musulman de Ndar [Saint-Louis du Sénégal]," Canadian Journal of African Studies vol. 41, no. 2, 289-307. 2005 "Writing trans-Saharan history: methods, sources and interpretations across the African divide," The Journal of North African Studies, Vol. 10, Issue 3/4 September 2005: 293-324 "Slavery, exchange, and Islamic law: a glimpse from the archives of Mali and Mauritania," African Economic History 2005 33: 117-148. 1997 "The unraveling of a neglected source: a report on women in Francophone West Africa in the 1930s," Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines 1997 37(3): 555-584.
Keywords	West Africa ; African history ; business ; family.