Jim Lance

Region of Interest

Africa

Primary Country of Residence

United States of America

Affiliation

Independent Scholar and Publisher

Email

jlance007@comcast.net

Mailing Address

Jim Lance
PO Box 185
Williamsburg, Massachusetts 01096

Phone/Fax Number(s)

413-268-9068

Countries of Specialization

Ghana

Education

BA Haverford College
MIA, Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs
PhD Stanford University

Research Interests

Governance, human rights and humanitarianism, politics, local and regional politics, Africa and globalization, Africa and technology

Publications

Nkrumah and the Chiefs: The Politics of Chieftaincy in Ghana, by Richard Rathbone. International Journal of African Historical Studies, Spring, 2001.

Ethnicity in Ghana: The Limits of Invention, edited by Carola Lentz and Paul Nugent. International Journal of African Historical Studies, Winter, 2001.

Imperialism, Decolonization and Africa: Studies Presented to John Hargreaves, edited by Roy Bridges. International Journal of African Historical Studies, Spring, 2000.

Co-author with Richard Roberts. “The World Outside the West Course Sequence at Stanford University.” Perspectives, March 1991. Reprinted in Robert Blackey, (ed.), History Anew: Innovations in the Teaching of History Today. (Long Beach, CA: The University Press, California State University, Long Beach, 1993), pp. 215-222.

“What the Stranger Brings: The Social Dynamics of Fieldwork.” History in Africa (17), 1990, pp. 335-339.