James L.A. Jr. Webb

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Professor
Affiliation	Colby College, Waterville, Maine
Email	jlwebb@colby.edu
Mailing Address	Department of History Colby College 5328 Mayflower Hill Drive Waterville, Maine 04901-8853 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 207-872-3279 fax: 207-872-3263
Research Interests	Currently at work on a global history of quinine use and the origins of global public health.
Teaching Interests	Currently teach a general introduction to African history and chair the interdisciplinary African Studies Program. Also teach courses in comparative world history and in global environmental and ecological history.
Publications	Desert Frontier: Ecological and Economic Change Along the Western Sahel, 1600-1850 (University of Wisconsin Press: Madison, WI, 1995) Tropical Pioneers: Human Agency and Ecological Change in the Highlands of Sri Lanka (Ohio University Press: Athens, OH, 2002 and Oxford University Press: New Delhi, 2002).
Keywords	quinine ; public health ; African history ; global environment ; ecological change ; Western Sahel.