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Hoe and Wage: A Social History of a Circular Migration System in West Africa, 1900-1975. Boulder, San Francisco, and London: HarperCollins/Westview Press, 1996. Paperback edition, 1998. 384p. With Joel W. Gregory and Victor Piché.
Dar al-Kuti and the Last Years of the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. 283p.
The New Dallas: Immigrants, Community Institutions, and Cultural Diversity: A Collection of Student Papers. Dallas: The William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies. Edited with Jane Lenz Elder.
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Population, reproduction, sociétés. Perspectives et enjeux de démographie sociale. Mélanges en l'honneur de Joel Gregory. Montreal: Les presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1993. 438p. Edited with Danielle Gauvreau, Raymond Gervais, and Céline LeBourdais, a volume of 22 chapters, including a joint introduction and separate chapters by each editor.
African Population and Capitalism: Historical Perspectives. First edition; Boulder: Westview Press, 1987. 304p. Second edition; Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1994. 304p. Edited with Joel W. Gregory. A volume of seventeen essays, including a joint introduction and separate chapters by each editor. The second edition includes a new preface, foreword by Samir Amin, and updated biographical notes on the contributors.
African Historical Demography:
A Multidisciplinary Bibliography. Los Angeles: Crossroads Press of the
African Studies Association, 1984. 248p. A 2500-item, partially annotated reference
work, accompanied by a substantive introduction. Edited and compiled with Joel
W. Gregory and Raymond Gervais.
"Benin," "Cameroon," "Central African Republic," "Douala," "French Equatorial Africa," The World Book Encyclopedia. Chicago: World Book Publishing, 2004, volume 2, 249-250, volume 3, 84-87, 352-353; volume 5, 311; volume 7, 514.
"Sahara." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, edited by Joel Mokyr. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, Volume 4, 433-434.
"Polygamy, disrupted reproduction, and the state: Malian migrants in Paris, France," Social Science and Medicine, 56 (2003), 1961-1972. With Carolyn F. Sargent.
"Congo-Brazzaville" (15 pages in manuscript), "Libya," (18 pages in manuscript), "Congo-Kinshasa" (20 pages in manuscript), Encyclopaedia Britannica. Chicago: Britannica Centre. In press.
"Des 'réfugiés' dans l'Afrique précoloniale? L'exemple de la Centrafrique, 1850-1910," Politique africaine, no. 85 (March 2002), 16-28.
"African Historical Demography in the Years since Edinburgh," History in Africa 27 (2000), 61-89.
"City and State as Context: A Research Model for Immigrant Incorporation in the United States,"Demographie aktuell: Vorträge - Aufsätze - Forschungsberichte 14 (1999), 26-44. With Caroline Brettell and James F. Hollifield.
" 'Words and Things' and 'Words and Beings': Different Experiences, Different Visions of the Same Africa," Canadian Journal of African Studies/ Revue canadienne des études africaines 30, 2 (1996), 257-263
"Earlier African Historical Demographies," Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines 23, 1 (1989), 5-27. With Joel Gregory.
"La mobilisation de la main-d'oeuvre burkinabè, 1900-1974,"Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines 23, 1 (1989), 73-105. With Victor Piché.
"Le recensement dans les pays du CILSS: une histoire peu chargée," PopSahel: Bulletin d'information sur la population et le développement 3 (1987), 9-11. With Joel W. Gregory.
"The Awlad Sulayman of Libya and Chad: Power and Adaptation in the Sahara and Sahel," Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines 19, 3 (1985), 319-43.
"The Pursuit of the Real: Modes of Production and History," Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines 19, 1 (1985), 58-63.
"Labour Reservoirs and Population: French Colonial Strategies in Koudougou, Upper Volta, 1914 to 1939," Journal of African History 23, 2 (1982), 205-24. With Joel W. Gregory. A revised version of the article cited below, without most of the tables. Reprinted in the "Collection de tirés à part," Département de démographie, Université de Montréal.
"Historical Demography and Demographic History in Africa: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations," Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines 14, 3 (1980), 389-416. With Joel W. Gregory.
The following encyclopedia articles for the Academic American Encyclopedia. Princeton: Aretê Publishing Company, 1980, 21 volumes: "Cameroon," volume 4, 59-61; "Central African Republic," volume 4, 250-252; "Chad," volume 4, 265-266; "Congo-Brazzaville," volume 5, 181-183; "Congo River," volume 5, 183-184; "The Gambia," volume 9, 25-26; "Guinea," volume 9, 397-398; "Mali," volume 13, 88-91; "Niger," volume 14, 186-188; "Nile," volume 14, 196-197; "Sierra Leone," volume 17, 296-298; "Upper Volta," volume 19, 471-473. Last article with Joel W. Gregory.
"Blood Partnership in Theory and Practice: The Expansion of Muslim Power in Dar al-Kuti,"Journal of African History 20, 3 (1979), 379-394.
"Eastern Libya, Wadai, and the Sanusiya: a Tariqa and a Trade Route," Journal of African History 18, 1 (1977), 21-36.
"Research Resources in Chad and the Central African Republic," History in Africa 2 (1975), 217-220.
"Throwing Knives in Equatorial Africa:
A Distribution Study," BaShiru 5, 1 (l973), 94-104.
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"Islam, Identity, and Gender in Daily Life among Malians in Paris: The Burdens are Easier to Bear." In L'Islam politique au sud du Sahara, Identités, discours et enjeux , edited by Muriel Gomez-Perez. Paris : Karthala. In press [2005]. With Carolyn F. Sargent.
"Un siécle de migrations féminines au Burkina: inclusion ou exclusion." In Être étranger et migrant en Afrique au XXè siécle. Enjeux identitaires et modes d'insertion. Volume 2 : Dynamiques migratoires, insertion urbaine et jeux d'acteurs , edited by Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, Odile Goerg, Issiaka Mandé, and Faranirina Rajaonah. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2003, 207-238. With Victor Piché.
"The Myth of Inevitability and Invincibility: Resistance to Slavers and the Slave Trade in Central Africa, 1850-1910." In Fighting Back: African Strategies against the Slave Trade, edited by Sylviane Diouf. Athens: University of Ohio Press, 2003, 31-49.
"Sample Surveys: Underexploited Sources for African Social History." In Sources and Methods in African Historical Research: Spoken, Written, Unearthed, edited by Toyin Falola and Christian Jennings. Rochester: Rochester University Press, 2003, 376-392.
"Oral Tradition: Classic Questions, New Answers." In Sources and Methods in African Historical Research: Spoken, Written, Unearthed, edited by Toyin Falola and Christian Jennings. Rochester: Rochester University Press, 2003, 239-248.
"Trade Transportation, and Expanding Economic Networks: Saharan Caravan Commerce in the Era of European Expansion, 15009-1900." In Black Business and Economic Power, edited by Alusine Jalloh and Toyin Falola. Rochester: Rochester University Press, 2002, 80-113. With Ralph Austen.
"Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood." In African Novels in the Classroom, edited by Jean Hay. Boulder: Lynne Reinner, 2000, 251-270.
"Introduction." In The New Dallas: Immigrants, Community Institutions, and Cultural Diversity. A Collection of Student Papers, edited with Jane Lenz Elder. Dallas: The William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, 2000, pp. 1-11
"No Liberty, Not Much Equality, and Very Little Fraternity: The Mirage of Manumission in the Algerian Sahara in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century,"Slavery and Abolition 19, 2 (1998), 38-56. This article also appeared in Slavery and Colonial Rule in Africa, edited by Suzanne Miers and Martin Klein. London: Frank Cass (1998), 38-56.
"Pour une histoire de la famille en Afrique" ("Towards a History of the Family in Africa"). In Ménages et familles en Afrique: Approches des dynamiques contemporaines, edited by Marc Pilon, Thérése Locoh, Emilien Vignikin, and Patrice Vimard. Paris: Centre français de Population et Développement (CEPED), 1997, 55-74. With Victor Piché.
"Crises économiques et dynamiques démographiques dans l'histoire africaine: Le centre et l'est de la Centrafrique depuis 1850" ("Economic Crises and Demographic Dynamics: The Central and Eastern Regions of the Central African Republic since 1850"). In Crises et population en Afrique: Crises economiques, politiques d'ajustement et dynamiques démographiques, edited by Jacques Vallin and Jean Coussy. Paris: Centre français de Population et Développement (CEPED), 1996, 161-179.
"Introduction générale: Un hommage et des perspectives d'avenir." In Population, reproduction, sociétés. Perspectives et enjeux de démographie sociale. Mélanges en l'honneur de Joel Gregory, edited by Dennis Cordell, Danielle Gauvreau, Raymond R. Gervais, and Céline Le Bourdais. Montréal: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1993, 1-9. With Danielle Gauvreau, Raymond R. Gervais, Céline Le Bourdais.
"Où sont tous les enfants? La faible fécondité en Centrafrique, 1890-1960" ("Where Are All the Children? Low Fertility in the Central African Republic, 1890-1960"). In Population, reproduction, sociétés. Perspectives et enjeux de démographie sociale. Mélanges en l'honneur de Joel Gregory, edited by Dennis Cordell, Danielle Gauvreau, Raymond R. Gervais, and Céline Le Bourdais. Montréal: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1993, pages 257-282.
"The Demographic Reproduction of Health and Disease: Colonial Central African Republic and Contemporary Burkina Faso." In The Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa, edited by Steven Feierman and John M. Janzen. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1992, 39-70. With Joel W. Gregory and Victor Piché.
"Grandeur et misère de l'analyse matérialiste en démographie: une application au domaine des politiques démographiques." In Révolution et population: aspects démograpiques des grandes révolutions politiques, edited by Eric Vilquin. Louvain-la-Neuve, 1990, 295-310. (La Chaire Quetelet 1989.) With Victor Piché.
"The Society and Its Environment."CHAD: A Country Study, edited by Thomas Collelo. Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1990, 733-786.
"The Delicate Balance of Force and Flight: The End of Slavery in Eastern Ubangi-Shari." In The End of Slavery in Africa, edited by Suzanne Miers and Richard Roberts. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1988, 150-171.
"African Historical Demography: The Search for a Theoretical Framework." In African Population and Capitalism: Historical Perspectives, edited by Dennis D. Cordell and Joel W. Gregory. Boulder: Westview, 1987, 14-32. With Joel W. Gregory and Victor Piché.
"Extracting People from Precapitalist Production: French Equatorial Africa from the 1880s to the 1930s." In African Population and Capitalism: Historical Perspectives, edited by Dennis D. Cordell and Joel W. Gregory. Boulder: Westview, 1987, 137-152.
"Warlords and Enslavement: A Sample of Slave-Raiders from Eastern Ubangi-Shari, 1870-1920." In Africans in Bondage: Essays presented to Philip D. Curtin on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the African Studies Program, edited by Paul E. Lovejoy. Madison: African Studies Program and the University of Wisconsin Press, 1986, 335-365.
"The Labor of Violence: Dar al-Kuti in the Nineteenth Century." In The Workers of African Trade, edited by Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch and Paul E. Lovejoy. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1985, 169-192. (Sage Series on African Modernization and Development.)
"The Savannas of North-Central Africa." In History of Central Africa, edited by David Birmingham and Phyllis Martin. London: Longman, 1983, volume 1, 30-74.
"Labour Reservoirs and Population:
French Colonial Strategies in Koudougou, Upper Volta, 1914 to 1939." In African
Historical Demography II, edited by Christopher Fyfe and David McMaster.
Edinburgh: African Studies Center, University of Edinburgh, 1981, 51-104. With
Joel W. Gregory.
"Histoire du peuplement en Afrique et l'effet de l'histoire spécifique des populations sur leur évolution démographique en relation avec le développement" ("The History of the Peopling of Africa and the Specific Relationship between the Evolution of Population and Development"). In Trente questions de population pour l'Afrique, edited by Reseau Inter-universitaire Africain d'études de Population (RIADEP). Paris and Lomé: RIADEP, 1994, 1.1-1.9.
"A History of the Central African Republic," prepared for the U.S. Peace Corps, Central African Republic, personal services contract No. PSC/TR 676-75-019, 1975. Mimeographed.
"Sara Madjingaye: Guide pour l'étude
orale de la langue," prepared for the U.S. Peace Corps, Chad, 1969. Mimeographied.
With Thomas Mann, AdaJo Mann, and Jay Boekelheide.
"La démographie historique
de l'Afrique coloniale: exemple de données et éléments de critique." Bamako,
Mali: Centre d'études et de recherche sur la population pour le développement,
1989, 28pp. (Working Paper No. 3.) With Nassour Ouaidou.
"The Demographic Regime and Production: An Overview of Research in African Demography at the Université de Montréal," Canadian Association of African Studies Newsletter / Bulletin de l'Association canadienne des études africaines, (Autumn) 1989, 20-26. With Victor Piché.
"A Response to Raymond Gervais' research note, 'Verités et mensonges: les statistiques coloniales de population,'" Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines 17, 1 (1983), 105-106.
"Southern Africa Films: A Selected
Listing of 16mm Socio-Political Films in Circulation in 1976," African
Studies Newsletter 9: 4 (September-October 1976). With David Wiley.
"Immigration benefits U.S. economy,
society," Plano Star Courrier, 8 June 1997, 6A-7A. With James
F. Hollifield.
"Nachtigal in English," Journal of African History 24 (1983): 97-100.
Wandering: Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America (Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf), Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines, in press. With Dena Abbas Pritchett.
Industrial Labor in the Colonial World: Workers of the Chemin de Fer Dakar-Niger, 1881-1963 (James A. Jones), Internatinoal Journal of African Historical Studies, 36, 3 (2003), 635-639.
Les voie de l'islam au Niger dans le Katsina indépendant du XIXè au XXè siècle (Maradi, pays hawsa) (Olivier Meunier), Anthropologie et sociétés, 25,1 (2001), 160-162.
Boy-Wives and Female Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities (Edited by Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe), International Journal of African Historical Studies 33, 2 (2000): 472-474.
Willing Migrants: Soninke Labor Diasporas, 1848-1960 (François Manchuelle), Journal of African History 41, 1 (2000): 149-151.
Central African Republic (Pierre Kalck), Journal of African History 41, 2 (2000): 346.
Juan Maria Schuver`s Travels in North East Africa, 1880-1883 (Edited by Wendy James, Gerd Baumann, and Douglas H. Johnson), African Studies Quarterly 4 (2000), an internet journal located at http://web. Africa.ufl.edu/asq/v4.
The Demography of Africa (James D. Tarver), Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines 32, 3 (1998), 642-644.
Libya, Chad, and the Central Sahara (John Wright), The Maghreb Review 3-4 (1990), 115-117.
The Handbook of National Population Censuses: Africa and Asia (Eliane Doemschke and Doreen S. Goyer), African Economic History 19 (1990-1991), 225-227.
Tchad 1900 - 1902. Une guerre franco-libyenne oubliée? Une confrérie musulmane, la Sanusiyya, face à la France (Jean-Louis Triaud), Journal of African History 31 (1990), 503-505.
Vie du Sultan Mohamed Bakhit, 1856-1916: la pénétration française au Dar Sila, Tchad (René-Joseph Bret), Journal of African History 29 (1988), 343.
Salt of the Desert Sun: A History of Salt Production and Trade in the Central Sudan (Paul E. Lovejoy), Journal of African History 29 (1988), 330.
Sultans dadjo du Sila (Tchad) (Henri Berre), Journal of African History 28 (1987), 158-159.
Gens de pouvoir, gens de la terre: les institutions politiques de l'ancien royaume du Yatenga (Bassin de la Volta Blanche) (Michel Izard), American Anthropologist 89 (1987), 984-985.
The Central African Republic: The Continent's Hidden Heart (Thomas O'Toole), American Historical Review 92, 5 (1987), 1248-1249.
Un ordre et sa destruction: économie, politique et histoire chez les Nzabi de la République populaire du Congo (Georges Dupré), International Journal of African Historical Studies 19, 1 (1986), 178-182.
A Concise Bibliography of Northern Chad and Fezzan in Southern Libya (Mohamed A. Alawar), International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 18, 1 (1986), 81-83.
Les Masa du Tchad: bétail et société (Françoise Dumas-Champion), African Economic History 14 (1985), 227-230.
Central Africa to 1870: Zambezia, Zaire and the South Atlantic (David Birmingham), Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines 17, 3 (1983), 560-562.
An Economic History of Central Niger (Stephen Baier), The Economic Journal (Royal Economic Society) 93 (1983), 648-649.
Historical Dictionary of Libya (Lorna Hahn), Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines 17, 2 (1983), 337-339.
The Historical Dictionary of the Central African Republic (Pierre Kalck, translated by Thomas O'Toole), Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines 16, 3 (1982), 656-657.
Conversion to Islam (Nehemia Levtzion, editor), Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines 16, 2 (1982), 419-422.
Animisme et Islam chez les Manza (Centrafrique) (Suzanne Renouf-Stefanik), Journal of African History 23, 2 (1982), 265-266.
Trade between Egypt and the Bilad es-Sudan, 1700-1850 (Terrence Walz), African Economic History 9 (1980), 249-253.
Patrimoine culturel et création contemporaine en Afrique et dans le monde arabe (Mohamed Aziza, editor), The African Book Publishing Record 6, 1 (1980).
The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 5, c. 1790-c. 1870 (John E. Flint, editor), Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 50, 1 (1980), 96-97.
Across the Savannas to Mecca: The Overland Pilgrimage Route from West Africa (J. S. Birks), American Historical Review 84, 5 (1979), 1441.
The Tuareg: People of Ahaggar (Jeremy Keenan), Journal of African History 20, 1 (1979), 155-156.
The Historical Dictionary of Chad (Samuel Decalo), International Journal of African Historical Studies 11, 2 (1978), 376-379.
EARLIER TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
8/1983-8/1995: Associate Professor of History, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.
9/1988-8/1989: Visiting Associate Professor, Département de Démographie, Université de Montréal.
1/1987-7/1987: Visiting Professor, Département d'histoire et de la géographie, Ecole normale supérieure, Université du Mali, Bamako, Mali. Undertaken with a fellowship from the Rotary International Foundation, Grants for University Teachers Program.
1/1987-7/1987: Research Associate, Unité socio-économique et de démographie, Institut du Sahel, Bamako, Mali. Research on the social history of low fertility in Central Africa; co-organizer of an international conference in Dakar, Senegal, on the use of archival sources to reconstruct the past of populations in the African Sahel during the colonial era; preparation and presentation of two conference papers, one for the meeting in Dakar and another for a second international conference sponsored by the Société de démographie historique in Paris. Financed by a fellowship from the Rotary International Foundation, Grants for University Teachers Program.
6/1986-8/1986: Research Associate, Unité socio-économique et de démographie (USED), Institut du Sahel, Bamako, Mali. Activities similar to those described above.
6/1984-8/1985: Invited researcher in African historical demography, Département de démographie, Université de Montréal.
8/1977-8/1983: Assistant Professor of History, Southern Methodist University.
1/1981-8/1981, 1/1982 - 8/1982: Course work in demography, Université de Montréal. Undertaken with the aid of a Study Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies.
4/1981-8/1981: Invited researcher in African historical demography, Université de Montréal.
7/1976-6/1977: Research Assistant to Vilas Research Professor Jan M. Vansina, Professor of African History, University of Wisconsin. Project: Research in Bantu historical linguistics, particularly in the Zaire basin.
12/1975-7/1976: Administrative Assistant-Academic (Specialist), African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin. A half-time position with duties consisting of grant proposal writing, coordination of events such as African Culture Week, routine administrative tasks.
Winter, 1975: Lectures on the Muslim Slave Trade in North Central Africa, Africa Centre, London
Fall, 1975: Film Bibliographer for an African Studies Association-University of Wisconsin African Studies Program project to create a catalogue of films on Southern Africa complete with synopses and critical reviews.
Fall, 1975: Reader for an introductory African history course, "Africa to 1880," University of Wisconsin.
Summer and Fall, 1975: History lectures for "Africa: An Introduction," African Studies Program interdisciplinary survey course, University of Wisconsin.
Summer, 1975: Orientation sessions and lectures for Peace Corps Volunteers going to Chad, Cameroon, Gabon, Benin, and the Central African Republic (Philadelphia).
Summer, 1974: Orientation sessions and lectures for Peace Corps Trainees and Volunteers (Bangui, Central African Republic); lectures on regional history for students of public administration and government affairs, Ecole Nationale d'Administration (Bangui, Central African Republic).
Summer, 1971: Project Director, French Africa Training Center, U.S. Peace Corps, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
6/1968 - 6/1970: Peace Corps Volunteer in Chad attached to a primary school teacher retraining project in health education and program development. Position entailed directing a 100-teacher pilot retraining program in Sarh (Fort-Archambault), teaching in a UNESCO retraining program, and developing Africa-oriented teaching materials in the field of health.
9/1967 - 5/1968: Research Assistant to Professor William Roger Louis, then with the Department of History, Yale University. Project: Content analysis of major European newspapers and journals in the 1880s to determine public opinion about imperial rivalry in Africa.
 Islamic teachers in Ndele, Central African Republic, interviewed in the course of fieldwork for the book Dar al-Kuti and the Last Years of the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade. |
National Science Foundation Research Grant, "Immigrants, Rights, and Incorporation in a Suburban Metropolis," 2001-2005.
National Science Foundation Research Grant, "Reproduction and Representations of Family among Malian Migrants in Paris, France," 2001-2003.
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Pilot Grant, "Reproduction and Representations of Family among Malian Migrants in Paris, France," 1998-2000.
University Research Council, Southern Methodist University, Travel Grant, 1999.
Mortar Board Senior Honor Society, Faculty Appreciation Award, 1998.
University Research Council, Southern Methodist University, Travel Grant, 1997.
Joint Committee on African Studies, Social Science Research Council, Conference grant for a workshop on "Familles africaines en mouvement et reproduction démographique dans le contexte de la globalisation/Changing African Families and Reproduction in Global Perspective," 23-25 May 1997. This workshop brought 22 scholars from North America, Europe, and Africa together at the Université de Montréal to launch discussions of African family studies.
American Philosophical Society, Award, 1996.
International Migration Project, Social Science Research Council, Planning Grant, 1996.
University Research Council, Southern Methodist University, Travel Grant, 1995.
University Research Council, Southern Methodist University, Travel Grant, 1994.
Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies, Joint Committe on African Studies, Advanced Research Grant, 1992.
American Philosophical Society, Award, 1992. Declined in favor of above.
University Research Council, Southern Methodist University, Research Grant, 1992.
American Council of Learned Societies, Travel grant to chair a panel and present a paper at the 2è Congrès International de la Démographie Historique, Paris, 1987.
University Teaching Fellowship, International Rotary Foundation, to teach at the Ecole normale supérieure, Université du Mali, Bamako, and to conduct research as a Research Associate at the Unité socio-économique et de démographie, Institut du Sahel, Bamako, 1986-1987.
Provost's Research Fund, Southern Methodist University, Partial travel grant for the purpose indicated above, 6/1986 8/1986.
Dedman College, Southern Methodist University. Leave grant for one semester to pursue research on "Population History in North Central Africa," 1984-1984.
Joint Committee on African Studies of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies. Conference grant for a workshop on African Population and Capitalism: Historical Perspectives. This meeting brought together 29 people to present and discuss papers in Montréal in May 1985. The workshop provided a forum for discussing chapters of a volume of the same title that I edited with Joel W. Gregory. It appeared in the Westview/HarperCollins Series on African Modernization and Development in 1987, and was reprinted by The University of Wisconsin Press in 1994.
Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, Joint Committee on African Studies. Advanced Research Grant to do research on "History, Society, and Low Fertility in North Central Africa: An Integrated Approach to Population Studies," 1984-1985.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel to Collections Grant for travel to the French Equatorial African archives at Aix-en-Provence, 1984.
Provost's Research Fund, Southern Methodist University. Seed grant for research on "Population, History, and Low Fertility in North Central Africa," 1984.
American Philosophical Society, grant for research on the population history of North Central Africa, 1983.
American Council of Learned Societies, Study Fellowship to study demography at the Université de Montréal, 1981.
American Council of Learned Societies, Travel Grant to attend Conference on Central African history at the University of Kent, Canterbury, Great Britain, 1980.
American Philosophical Society, Grant for preparation of a chapter on the history of North Central Africa for a two-volume History of Central Africa, 1979.
American Council of Learned Societies, Grant to Recent Recipients of the Ph.D., for revision of dissertation for publication, 1979.
Social Science Research Council, Write-Up grant, 1975.
Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies, Joint Committee on African Studies, Fellowship for dissertation fieldwork in Chad, the Central African Republic, France, and Great Britain, 1973-1975.
Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, declined in favor of above, 1973.
National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship in Arabic, University of Wisconsin, 1972-1973.
University Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, 1971-1972.
University Ford Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, 1970-1971.
Yale University Fellowships, 1964-1968.
Offices and Committees
2004: Co-Chair, National Program Committee, African Studies Association (USA).
2003: Member, National Program Committee, African Studies Association (USA).
2002-2003: Member, Prix Joel Gregory Prize Committee, Canadian Association of African Studies/Association canadienne des études africaines. The Prix Gregory Prize is a biennial award for the best book in African Studies in French or in Engish published by a Canadian citizen or resident, or an author who studied in Canada.
2000-present: Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of African Historical Studies.
1998-1999: President, Gays and Lesbians in African Studies (GLAS), an academic organization affiliated with the African Studies Association (USA).
1996-2002: Editor, Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne des études africaines. This position entails receiving and acknowledging the receipt of manuscripts in French (and, to a lesser extent, in English), recruiting evaluators for them, assessing their evaluations, editing manuscripts for publication. I manage about 50 manuscripts annually. This journal is the best interdisciplinary journal in the field of African Studies in the world. In the 1990s, the CJAS/RCEA has published one manuscript for every thirteen received.
1994-1996: Member, Joint Committee on African Studies of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies.
1994-1995: Coordinator and Advisor, Fulbright-Hays Fellowships, Southern Methodist University.
1993-1997: Member, President's Advisory Committee on the Needs of Disabled Persons, Southern Methodist University. Chair, Subcommittee on the Needs of Vision and Hearing Impaired.
1992-1996: Member, Working Group on the Cultural Contexts of Fertility in Africa, Joint Committee on African Studies, Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies.
1992-1994: Member, Women's Studies Council, Southern Methodist University.
1990-1997: Member, Fulbright-Hayes Fellowships, Interviewing Committee, Graduate and Undergraduate Grants, Southern Methodist University.
1993: Chair, Herskovits Prize Committee, African Studies Association (U.S.A.), which awards the Association's annual prize for the best book on Africa the preceding year.
1992-1994: Member, Herskovits Prize Committee, African Studies Association (U.S.A.).
1988-1989: Member, Gregory Prize Committee, Canadian Association of African Studies, which awards a biennial prize for the best book in African Studies published by a Canadian citizen or resident, or an author who studied in Canada.
1990-1996: Member, Selection Committee, Doctoral Research Fellowship Program and Pre-Dissertation Fellowship Program, Joint Committee on African Studies, Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies.
1987-1990: Member, Screening Committee. Program described above.
1991-1992: Chair, Discipline Advisory Committee: African History, Fulbright Awards, Council for International Exchange of Scholars.
1989-1992: Member, Discipline Advisory Committee: African History, Fulbright Awards, Council for International Exchange of Scholars.
1990-1993, 1996 - present: Member, Executive, Canadian Association of African Studies.
1990-1993: Co-Editor
for Book Reviews, Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue canadienne
des études africaines, and Associate Editor, the same journal.
MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
African Studies Association of the U.S.A.
American Association of University Professors.
American Historical Association.
Association of Concerned Africa Scholars.
Association des Démographes du Québec.
Canadian Association of African Studies/Association canadienne des études africaines.
Committee on Gay and Lesbian History, American Historical Association.
International Union for the Scientific Study of Population/Union Internationale pour l'Etude Scientifique de la Population (New members are elected following nomination by two sitting members of the Union).
Social Science History Association.
Société de Démographie Historique (Paris).
Union for the Study of African Population/Union pour l'Etude de la Population Africaine.
West African Research Association.
World History Association.
TEACHING AWARDS AND SPECIAL AWARDS
Special award from the Canadian Association of African Studies / Association canadienne des études africaines, on the occasion of its 35th anniversary, to recognize promotion of bilingualism in French and English, and professional relations between CAAS / ACÉA and the African Studies Association (USA), Montréal, April, 2005.
Honoring our Professors' Excellence (HOPE) Award, 2001. HOPE awards are made by the Department of Residence Life and Student Housing upon the recommendation of Resident Assistants to honor professors that have made a significant impact on academic achievement.
Margareta Deschner Teaching Award, Women's Studies Council, Southern Methodist University, 1991. This award is given in recognition of special effort to integrate materials on women in mainstream university courses.
Women's Studies Council,
Southern Methodist University, two Core Curriculum Awards, 1983.
SERVICE TO UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY
1997-present: Chair, Faculty Council on General Education, which includes representatives of the four schools which grant undergraduate degrees. This task falls under my responsibilities as Associate Dean for General Education.
2000-present: Member, Advisory Committee, Inter-City Experience (ICE Program).
2002-2003: Member of three-person steering committee, University Task Force on the First-Year Experience. The other two members of the committee are the Associate Vice President and Dean for Student Affairs, and the Director of the Learning Enhancement Center.
2002-2003: Chair, Subcommittee on Academic Engagement, University Task Force on the First-Year Experience.
1999: Chair, Review Committee for the Foreign Language Learning Center, Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, Southern Methodist University.
1997: Evaluation of the University Summer Program in Rome/Siena, Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, Southern Methodist University.
1996-1999: Founding Co-Director, SMU Summer-in-Paris Program. I also taught in the program for three summers (1997, 1998, 1999).
1993-1997: Member, President's Advisory Committee on the Needs of Disabled Persons.
1993-1997: Chair, Subcommittee on the Needs of the Vision and Hearing-Impaired, President's Advisory Committee on the Needs of Disabled Persons.
1995-1997: Member, University Committee on Intellectual Property, The Graduate School.
1992-1994: Member, Women's Studies Council.
1990-1997: Member, Interviewing Committee, Fulbright-Hayes Fellowships, Graduate and Undergraduate Grants.
1994-1995: Coordinator and Advisor, Fulbright-Hays Fellowships, Graduate and Undergraduate Grants.
1991: Member, Departmental Committee to formulate a Ph.D. program in American History. I ended up authoring the initial document, which identifies American history as the primary field, the history of the Southwest as the preferred research field, and a major third field in comparative history.
1980s-1990s: Member for several years each, Departmental Committee for Undergraduate Studies and Departmental Committee for Graduate Studies.
1980-1982: Untenured member, Dean's Advisory Committee on Tenure, Dedman College, Southern Methodist University.
"The Integration of Nigerian and Mexican immigrants in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas," International Union for the Scientific Study of Population," Tours, July, 2005. With Manuel Garcia y Griego.
“Discrimination and Integration: The Experience of Mexican and Nigerian Immigrants in North Texas, 2001-2005,” Symposium Hispanos en USA/Inmigrantes en Espana: ¿amenaza o nueva civilizacion?”, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2005 (With Manuel Garcia y Griego).
"The Second Diaspora and the Global Economy: Three Sahelians in France," African Studies Association, New Orleans, November, 2004, and Canadian Association of African Studies (Association canadienne des études africaines), Montréal, May, 2005. With Carolyn Sargent.
"Colonial Pasts to Post Colonial Presents: Malians in France since the Nineteenth Century," European Social Science History Conference, Berlin, March, 2004. With Carolyn Sargent.
"Vous êtes maintenant français/You are French now": New Communications Technologies and Transnational Arguments about Sex, Family, and Religion among Malian Migrants in France and their Villages of Origin," African Studies Association (USA), Washington, December, 2003.
"Doing African Historical Demography in the Postmodern and Postcolonial Era," Seminar " The Demographics of Empire," Texas Southern University and the Houston Area African Studies Group, Houston, November, 2002.
"The Diverse Roles of Mali Immigrant Associations in Paris: Family, Incorporation, and Development," European Social Science History Conference, The Hague, February, 2002. With Carolyn F. Sargent, Samba Yatera, and Ismael Maîga.
"Population and Demographic Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa n the Second Millennium," Seminar "The History of World Population in the Second Millennium," International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), Florence, June, 2001.
"Immigration Policy, Family, and Reproductive Strategies among Malian Migrants in France," Biennial Congress of the European Social Science History Association, Amsterdam, April, 2000. With Carolyn F. Sargent.
"In the Years since Edinburgh: What African Historical Demography has taught us about Demographic Change in African Societies," Third African Population Conference, Durban, December 2000; annual meeting Canadian Association of African Studies/Association canadienne des études africaines, Lennoxville, Québec, June, 1999.
Printed in the proceedings of the Third African Population Conference: Union of African Population Studies/Union pour l'Etude de Population Africaine and National Population Unit (Republic of South Africa), African Population in the 21st Century/La population africaine au 21è siècle (Durban/Dakar: UAPS/UEPA and NPU, 1999), II, 625-650.
"Representations of Family among Malian Migrants to France," American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, December, 1998. With Carolyn F. Sargent.
"Family Roles and Family Structure in Africa: Sociology and Demography Meet Literature," quadrennial meeting of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Beijing, October 1997; annual meeting of the African Literature Association, Austin, March, 1998.
"No Liberty, Not Much
Equality, and Very Little Fraternity: The Mirage of Manumission n the Algerian
Sahara in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century," African Studies Association,
San Francisco, November, 1996.
"Histoire de la famille
en Afrique: Au-delà de la fabrication des modèles" ("The History of the Family
in Africa: Beyond the Building of Models"). 25pp. This paper was presented at
a conference in Lomé, Togo on "Ménage et famille en Afrique: bilan, enjeux et
perspectives de la recherche" ("Household and Family in Africa: Overview, Significance,
and Research Perspectives"), sponsored by the French research organization ORSTOM
(Institut français de recherche scientifique pour le développement en coopération),
the Unité de Recherche Démographique (URD) at the Université du Bénin in Togo,
and the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Economie Appliquée (ENSEA)
and the Institut National de la Statistique (INS) in Côte d'Ivoire, December,
1995.
"Economic Crises and
Demographic Dynamics in African History: Central and Eastern Central African
Republic in the Precolonial, Colonial, and Contemporary Eras," Seminar "Crise
économique africaine et dynamique démographique," Centre français sur la population
et le développement (CEPED), Abbaye de Royaumont, May, 1995.
"The Local Contexts
of Low Fertility in the Central African Republic, 1890-1960," Social Science
Research Council panel, African Studies Association (USA), Toronto, November,
1994.
"The Saharan Slave
Trade and the Demographic Reproduction of Commercial Societies in the Sahara
in the Nineteenth Century," Eleventh International Economic History Congress,
Teatro alla Scala and Université Bocconi, Milan, September, 1994.
"A View from Burkina:
The National Migration Survey, 1974-1975. A New Source for the Social History
of Labor Migration in West Africa in the Twentieth Century," Seminar/Workshop:
"Works on the Historical Demography of Burkina Faso," Unité d'Enseignement et
de Recherche en Démographie and Département d'Histoire et d'Archéologie, Université de Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, May, 1994.
"The Local Contexts
of Low Fertility in the Central African Republic, 1890-1960," Conference/Workshop:
"Situating Fertility: Global Visions, Local Values," Joint Committee on African
Studies, Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned
Societies, at The John Hopkins University, February, 1994.
"The TransSaharan Slave Trade and the Reproduction of Saharan Oases: Some Hypotheses and Preliminary Research," Annual Meeting, African Studies Association (USA), Boston, December, 1993.
"Numeracy: Quantifying Vital Events," Planning Seminar: Joint Committee on African Studies, Social Science Research Council/American Council of Learned Societies, New York, September , 1992.
"Situating Fertility: Toward a Cultural History of Vital Events. Comments," Planning Seminar: Joint Committee on African Studies, Social Science Research Council/American Council of Learned Societies, New York, May, 1992.
"The Sexuality of Eunuchs: Emasculation, Masculinity, and Gender in Africa and Elsewhere," Conference/Workshop: "Towards a History of Gendered Men in Africa," University of Minnesota, April, 1990.
"La grandeur et la misère de la démographie marxiste," Chaire Quételet, Colloquium on "Révolution et Population," Université Louvain-la-Neuve, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, October, 1989. With Victor Piché.
"La mobilisation de
la main-d'oeuvre burkinabé, 1900-1974: une vision retrospective," Annual meeting
of the African Studies Association (USA), Atlanta, November, 1989. With Joel
W. Gregory and Victor Piché.
"La mobilisation de
la main-d'oeuvre burkinabé, 1900-1974" (same paper as above), Groupe Tiers-Monde,
Seminaire du mercredi, Département de démographie, Université de Montréal, November,
1989. With Joel W. Gregory and Victor Piché.
"The Demographic Regime and Production: An Overview of Research in Third World Demography at the Université de Montréal," Joint Seminar, Institute of African Studies, Soviet Academy of Sciences (Moscow) and the Canadian Association of African Studies/ Association canadienne des études africaines, Ottawa, May, 1989.
"La sous-fécondité en Centrafrique," Groupe Tiers-Monde, Seminaire du mardi, Département de démographie, Université de Montréal, November, 1988.
"Population, main-d'oeuvre et la traite trans-saharienne au 19è siècle," Groupe Tiers-Monde, Seminaire du mardi, Département de démographie, Université de Montréal, March, 1988.
"Earlier African Historical Demographies," 2è Congrès de la Société de démographie historique: "Le peuplement du monde," Paris, June, 1987. With Joel W. Gregory.
"La démographie historique de l'Afrique coloniale: exemples de données et éléments de critique," Colloque sur les sources de l'histoire démographique des pays du Sahel conservées dans les archives, Unité socio-économique et de démographie/Institut du Sahel and Archives du Sénégal, Dakar, February, 1987. With Nassour Ouaidou.
"The Delicate Balance of Force and Flight: The End of Slavery in Eastern Ubangi-Shari," Annual meeting, African Studies Association (USA), New Orleans, November, 1986.
"Warlords and Enslavement: A Sample of Slave-Raiders from Eastern Ubangi-Shari, 1870-1920," Conference to commemorate the Tricentenaire du code noir," the French slave code, Fédération sénégalaise des clubs UNESCO, Ile de Gorée, Dakar, Senegal, July, 1986.
"La place de la population dans l'histoire récente du capitalisme africain," Entretiens du Rue Mahler, Société de démographie, Paris, October, 1985.
"Extracting People from Precapitalist Production: French Equatorial Africa from the 1890s to the 1930s," Annual meeting, Canadian Association of African Studies, combined with a seminar on African Population and Capitalism, sponsored by the Social Science Research Council (New York), Montréal, May, 1985. Apart from writing and presenting this paper, I was the co-organizer of the seminar along with Joel W. Gregory.
"La sous-fécondité et l'histoire en Centrafrique: définitions et approches," Seminaire du département, Département de démographie, Université de Montréal, January, 1985.
"Black Africa and the Sahara: The Demographic Implications of the Muslim Slave Trade in the Late Nineteenth Century," Annual meeting, American Historical Association, San Francisco, December, 1983.
"The Labor of Violence: Dar al-Kuti in the Nineteenth Century," Conference on "The Labor of Long-Distance Trade in Africa," York University, North York, Ontario, September, 1983.
"Low Fertility in Africa: an Evaluation of the Bio-Medical Approach of Anne Retel-Laurentin," Annual meeting, Canadian Association of African Studies, Québec, Québec, May, 1983.
"A quel prix la conquête? L'évolution de la population de l'Oubangui-Chari, 1920, 1959-1960", Annual meeting, African Studies Association (USA), Washington, November, 1982.
"La ponction d'une économie précapitaliste: la migration en Afrique équatoriale française entre la conquête et la crise," Annual meeting, Canadian Association of African Studies, Toronto, March, 1982.
"Labour Reservoirs and Population: French Colonial Strategies in Koudougou, Upper Volta," Centre for African Studies conference "African Historical Demography II," University of Edinburgh, April, 1981. Written and presented with Joel W. Gregory.
"The Savannas of North Central Africa," for "Central Africa: an International Conference on Social, Political, and Economic History from the later Iron Age to the Present," Eliot College, University of Kent, Canterbury, England, July, 1980.
"The Lake Chad-Nile Region and Ubangi-Shari, 1750-1900: The Integration of Northern Equatorial Africa into the International Economy," Annual meeting, Canadian Association of African Studies, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, May, 1980.
"Historical Demography and Demographic History in Africa: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations," Annual meeting, African Studies Association (USA), Los Angeles, November, 1979. Written and presented with Joel W. Gregory.
"The Awlad Sulayman of Libya and Chad: Power and Adaptation along the Southern Stretches of the Tripoli-Borno Route in the Nineteenth Century," The Second International Symposium of the Libyan Studies Centre: the Trans-Saharan Trade-Route Conference, Libyan Studies Centre, University of al-Fateh, Tripoli, Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, October, 1979.
"Blood Partnership and the Growth of Dar al-Kuti, a Slave-raiding State on the Muslim Frontier in Equatorial Africa: a case in the Expansion of Scale," African Studies Association (USA), Baltimore, November, 1978.
Revised version of the following paper, Southeast Regional Seminar on African Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, February, 1979.
"Secondary Empire and
Slave-Raiding beyond the Islamic Frontier in Northern Equatorial Africa: the
Case of Bandas Hakim and Said Baldas," Annual meeting, American Historical Association,
Dallas, December, 1977.
"Secondary Empire and Slave-Raiding
beyond the Islamic Frontier in Northern Equatorial Africa: the Case of Bandas
Hakim and Sacid Baldas," American Historical Association, Dallas, December, 1977.
Summer 1997, 1998,
1999, 2000: Fieldwork among Malian immigrants in Paris on changing images of
the family, reproduction, Islam and the state.
Short visits for academic
conferences: Tripoli, Libya (1978, 1979); Dakar, Senegal (1986, 1988); Bamako,
Mali (1991), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (1994), Lomé, Togo (1995); Durban, South
Africa (1999).
Summer 1986, 12/1986-7/1987: Research Associate at the Unité socio-économique et de démographie, Institut du Sahel, Bamako, Mali, West Africa. For a description of activities, see section on Teaching and Administrative Experience (travel to Senegal and The Gambia).
Summer, 1980: Archival research in Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast on the history of Burkina labor migration in the colonial era. Conducted under the auspices of the Direction des recherches démographiques, Institut naitonal de la statistique et de la démographie, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (travel to Ivory Coast).
1973-1975: Fieldwork in Chad and the Central African Republic for Ph.D. dissertation in African history (travel to Nigeria, and Cameroon) .
Summer, 1973: Intensive Arabic language study in Cairo, Egypt.
Summer, 1972: Intensive Arabic language study in Tunis, Tunisia.
1968-1970: Peace Corps Volunteer in Chad (travel to Cameroon, Central African Republic, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Egypt).
Summer, 1966: Short-term
work project in Niger sponsored by Operation Crossroads Africa, Incorporated
(travel to Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Ghana).
Summer, 1982: Informal connection with a project on rural development, land tenure, and migration in Haiti. I also began to collect materials for a course in Caribbean history (travel to the Dominican Republic).
Summer, 1971: Project Director, French Africa Training Center, U.S. Peace Corps, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
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