Faculty and Staff
Jean Marie Allman
Curriculum Vitae
Degrees and Certificates:
| 1987 | Ph.D. in African History, Northwestern University |
| 1983 | Graduate Certificate in African Studies, Northwestern University |
| 1979 | B.A. in History, Northwestern University |
Positions:
| 2003- | Director, Center for African Studies, University of Illinois |
| 2001- | Professor, History Department, University of Illinois, with appointments in African Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies |
| 1999 | Senior Research Affiliate, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. |
| 1996-2000 | Associate Professor, History Department, University of Minnesota |
| 1994-1996 | Assistant Professor, History Department, University of Minnesota |
| 1992 | Senior Research Affiliate, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. |
| 1988-1994 | Assistant Professor, History Department, University of Missouri |
Courses Taught (1986-2005):
History of Modern Africa, Women in African History, Race and Class in South Africa, African Civilizations, History of South Africa, Graduate Topics in African History, History of Africa Before 1800, History of Africa Since 1800, Contemporary Problems: Women in African History, Problems in West African History: The State and Slavery (graduate seminar), The Making of the Modern World, (undergraduate honors seminar), Topics in Comparative Third World History: Missions, Medicine and the Colonial Experience (graduate seminar); Research Seminar: New Directions in African Social History (two-quarter graduate seminar); Social History of African Women (graduate seminar); Race, Gender and Class in South Africa (an undergraduate research and writing seminar); Race and Power in Southern Africa; History of Africa; Women, Men and Gender in African Societies; Problems in Comparative Women’s History ( a graduate seminar); The Development of African Studies; African History at the Interdisciplinary Crossroads.
Theses and Dissertations Advised and Co-advised:
Dong, Bo. “Chinese Labor in South Africa.” M.A. Thesis, University of Minnesota, 1996.
Abidogun, Jamaine. “Ghana: Education and Cultural Transformation.” Ph.D. Thesis (Education), University of Kansas, 2000
Saute, Alda. “The African-Mission Encounter and Education in Mozambique: The Anglican Mission of Santo Agostinho – Maciene, 1926/8-1974.” Ph.D. Thesis, University of Minnesota, 2000.
Peterson, Derek. “Writing Gikuyu: Christian Literacy and Ethnic Debate in Northern Central Kenya, 1908-1952. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Minnesota, 2000.
Stott, Amber. “Smiling on Post Cards and Dancing in Brochures: Images of Zulu Women in the South African Tourist Industry.” M.A. (African Studies), University of Illinois, 2001.
Soneson, Heidi. “Image-Making: Concepts of Civilization in the Seventeenth-Century Writings of Wilhelm Johann Muller. Ph.D. Thesis (German), University of Minnesota, 2001.
Musiiwa, Estella. Ph.D. “Sustainability, Indigenous Agricultural Knowledge and Gender on Smallholder Irrigation Schemes in Manicaland, 1928-1997: Rethinking Peasant Agrarian History in Zimbabwe.” Ph.D. (History), University of Minnesota, 2002.
Lalu, Premesh. “Hintsa, Historical Archive and the Structure of Lies.” Ph.D. (History) University of Minnesota, 2003.
Moorman, Marissa, “‘Feel Angolan with This Music’: A Social History of Music and the Nation, Luanda, Agnola, 1945-75.” Ph.D. (History), University of Minnesota, 2004.
Abdul-Korah, Gariba. “Migration, Ethnicity and Uneven Development in Ghana: The Case of the Upper West Region.” Ph.D. (History), University of Minnesota, 2004
Pickett, Adrienne. “Contemporary Dakarois Public Sculpture and the Contested Meanings behind Issa Diop’s ‘Ceddo.’” MA (African Studies), University of Illinois, 2005
Essien, Kwame. “African Americans’ Contribution to Nation-Building in Ghana.” MA (African Studies), University of Illinois, 2005.
Recent Publications
Monographs and Edited Collections:
TONGNAAB: The History of a West African God. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005. (with John Parker)
Fashioning Africa: Power and the Politics of Dress. (Edited and introduced). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004.
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. 4:1 (2003). Special Issue: “Destination Globalization: Women, Gender and Comparative Colonial Histories in the New Millenium.” Edited and introduced with Antoinette Burton.
Women in African Colonial Histories. (Edited and provided an introduction with Susan Geiger and Nakanyike Musisi.) Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002.
Our Days Dwindle: Memories of My Childhood Days in Asante. (Edited and provided an introduction) Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Press, 2001.
“I Will Not Eat Stone”: A Women’s History of Colonial Asante. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Press, 2000. (with Victoria Tashjian)
Articles and Chapters:
“Gender Chaos and Unmarried Women in Colonial Asante.” In Andrea Cornwall (ed.) Readings in Gender in Africa. London: International Africa Institute, 2004. [reprinted version of 1996 JAH article].
“‘Let Your Fashion Be in Line with Our Ghanaian Costume’: Nation, Gender and the Politics of Clothing in Nkrumah’s Ghana.” In Fashioning Power. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004.
“Tonna’ab and Nana Tongo in the Religious Landscape of Twentieth Century Ghana.” (with John Parker) In Rijk van Dijk and John Hanson (eds.). Religious Modernities in West Africa. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, forthcoming.
“‘England Swings Like a Pendulum Do?’: Africanist Reflections on Cannadine’s Retro-Empire.” In Anthony Ballantyne, ed., From Orientalism to Ornamentalism: Empire, Difference and History, a special issue of the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History (Johns Hopkins University Press), 3:1 (2002). http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_colonialism_and_colonial_history/
v003/3.1allman.html.
“Marriage and Marrying on a Shifting Terrain: Reconfigurations of Power and Authority in Early Colonial Asante.” (with Victoria Tashjian) In Allman, Geiger and Musisi, (eds). Women in African Colonial Histories. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002, 237-59.
“Rounding Up Spinsters: Unmarried Women and Gender Chaos in Colonial Asante." In D. Hodgson and C. McCurdy, eds. “Wicked Women” and the Reconfiguration of Gender. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2001, 130-148 (revised and reprinted version of 1996 JAH article)
“Be(com)ing Asante / Be(com)ing Akan: Thoughts on Gender, Identity and the Colonial Encounter.” In C. Lentz and P. Nugent (eds.) Ethnicity in Ghana: The Limits of Invention. London: MacMillan , 2000, 97-118.