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Patrick MANNING September 2009 

Patrick MANNING 

CURRICULUM VITAE 

Andrew W. Mellon Professor of 

World History 

3904 Posvar Hall 

University of Pittsburgh 

Pittsburgh, PA 15260 

(412) 648-7478 

pmanning@pitt.edu; 

http://www.wworldhistorynetwork.org/manning 

EDUCATION 

University of Wisconsin - Madison 

Ph.D. (History), 1969. Major: African History. 

Minors: Islamic History, Comparative Tropical History 

Dissertation title: "An Economic History of Southern Dahomey, 1880-1914." 

Dissertation director: Philip D. Curtin 

M.S. (Economics), 1967. Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Development. 

Certificate in African Studies, 1967. 

M.S. (History), 1966. Major: African History. 

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. 

B.S., 1963. Major: Chemistry. Minor: History. 

PUBLICATIONS 

Books 

Migration History: Multidisciplinary Approaches (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2010). An 

edited collection of multidisciplinary approaches to migration. Co-edited with Jan 

Lucassen and Leo Lucassen. 

The African Diaspora: A History through Culture (New York: Columbia University 

Press, 2009). A survey of African and the African diaspora since 1400, emphasizing 

cultural expressions of social conflict and change. 

Global Practice in World History: Advances Worldwide (Princeton: Markus Wiener 

Publishers, 2008). An edited collection of chapters showing the world-historical 

practice of scholars around the world. 

World History: Global and Local Interactions. (Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 

2006). An edited collection with twelve contributions by new scholars in world 

history. 

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Migration in World History (London: Routledge, 2004). A concise survey of processes 

of migration in human history from early hominids until today. Paper and hardcover. 

Slavery, Colonialism, and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640-1960 (Cambridge: 

Cambridge University Press, 2004). Paperback edition of a book first published in 

1982 

Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past (New York: Palgrave 

Macmillan, 2003). A critical overview of the field of world history. Paper and 

hardcover. 

Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa, 1880-1995 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 

1999). Second edition, revised and expanded: a new chapter added to this edition 

covers the period 1985-95. Paper and hardcover. 

Slave Trades, 1500-1800: Globalization of Forced Labour (Variorium: Aldershot, Great 

Britain, 1996). Volume 15 of An Expanding World, edited by A. J. Russell-Wood. I 

am editor of this collection of articles, to which I have written an introduction. 

History from South Africa: Alternative Visions and Practices (Philadelphia: Temple 

University Press, 1991). I am co-editor, along with Joshua Brown, Karin Shapiro Jon 

Wiener, Belinda Bozzoli and Peter Delius, of this collection of articles, mostly 

written by South African authors. Paper and hardcover. 

Slavery and African Life: Occidental, Oriental, and African Slave Trades (Cambridge: 

Cambridge University Press, 1990). A study of the impact of slave exports on African 

demography, economics, society, and ideology. Paper and hardcover. 

Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa, 1880-1985 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 

1988). Paper and hardcover. 

Slavery, Colonialism, and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640-1960 (Cambridge: 

Cambridge University Press, 1982). Finalist for the Herskovits Prize of the African 

Studies Association. 

Book Translations 

Wanderung Flucht Vertreibung: Geschichte der Migration (Essen: Magnus Verlag, 2007). 

German translation of Migration in World History. 

Turkish-language translation of Migration in World History in press. 

Chinese-language translation of Navigating World History in press. 

Japanese-language translation of Navigating World History in press. 

Multimedia Publication 

Website: ―World-Historical Dataverse—the universe of world-historical data,‖ 

www.dataverse.pitt.edu (2009). This website presents results of a major research 

effort to prepare global historical statistics for the period since 1600. 

CD-ROM: Migration in Modern World History CD-ROM (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth 

Thomson Learning, 2000). An educational CD-ROM, for which I am project director. 

It contains 400 documents, 60,000 words of narrative, and 1001 questions. 

Website: ―World History Network,‖ www.worldhistorynetwork.org (2004). I direct the 

production and maintenance of materials for this comprehensive gateway to world 

history on the Internet, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanties. 

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Website: ―Demographic Simulation of Migration,‖ www.worldhistorynetwork.migrationsim. 

I have directed work on this site since 1996. It simulates the demography of the Atlantic 

slave trade and compares it with the demography of European trans-Atlantic migration. 

Website: ―World History Center,‖ www.worldhistorycenter.org. I directed work on this 

large site 1996-2004: its focus is on research, multimedia production, curriculum 

development, and professional development in world history. 

Volumes in Preparation 

―African Population, 1650-1950: The Eras of Enslavement and Colonial Rule.‖ Detailed 

demographic analysis of the impact of slavery on populations in Africa and abroad; 

expected to appear in 2010. Co-authored with Scott Nickleach. 

―World History: Humanity in Movement.‖ A college-level textbook in world history, 

linked to a substantial collection of multimedia educational materials. Under contract 

with Cengage; expected to appear in 2010.. 

―1989-1991: A World History of Democracy in Our Time.‖ A global and interactive 

interpretation of democratization movements. A detailed narrative of the 

democratization movements of 1989-91, based on field research in the U.S., Haiti, 

Brazil, South Africa, Congo, Benin, Czechoslovakia, Germany and France. Under 

contract with Palgrave. 

―The World History of Slavery.‖ A survey emphasizing the continuities in institutions of 

slavery from ancient times, and the connections among systems of slavery in the 

modern world. In preparation. 

―Africans in French, Spanish, and early American Louisiana.‖ Demographic and social 

analysis of African-descended populations, based on two major databases. In 

preparation. 

Curriculum Materials 

2003. AP World History Teaching Units. Published on demand by the College Board. I 

am general editor, with Deborah Smith Johnston, of this set of thirteen teaching 

units for the AP World History course. Each unit averages 60 pages in length. 

2002a. AP World History Best Practices Guide. New York: College Board. I am coeditor, 

along with Deborah Smith Johnston, and principal author of this 150-page 

pamphlet. 

2002b. ―AP World History Web Guide.‖ Published on-line by the College Board. I am 

supervising editor of this guide to 500 web sites, written by Marc Jason Gilbert 

and Peggy McKee.. 

Articles in Refereed Journals 

2008. “Frontiers of Family Life: Early Modern Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds.” 

Modern Asian Studies (online), 2008, 19 pp. 

2006a. “Cross-Community Migration: A Distinctive Human Pattern.” Social Evolution 

and History 5, 2, pp. 24-54. 

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2006b. ―Homo sapiens Populates the Earth: A provisional synthesis, privileging linguistic 

data.‖ Journal of World History 17, 2, pp. 115-158. 

2006c. “Interactions and Connections: Locating and Managing Historical Complexity.‖ 

The History Teacher 39, 2, pp. 1-21. 

2006d. “Fostering Global Interactions? An Experiment in Teaching World History across 

National Boundaries.” Co-authored with Adrian Carton. World History 

Connected, 4, 2 

2005. ―1789-1792 and 1989-1992. Global Interactions of Social Movements.‖ World 

History Connected 3, 1 . 

2003a. "Navigating World History: A Synopsis." World History Connected November 

2003 (20 Nov. 2003). 

2003. ―Revolution in Education: China and Cuba in Global Context, 1957–1976.‖ Coauthored 

with Yinghong Cheng. Journal of World History, 14, 3, pp. 359-391. 

2002. ―Asia and Europe in the World Economy: Introduction.‖ American Historical 

Review 107, 2, pp. 419-424. 

1999. ―Pedagogy and Historiography in the Migration CD-ROM.‖ The History 

Teacher 32, 3, pp. 329-343. 

1996. ―The Problem of Interactions in World History.‖ American Historical Review 

101, 3, pp. 771-82. 

1993. "Migrations from Africa to the Americas: Impact on Africans and on the 

Americas." The History Teacher 3, pp. 279-96. 

1990-91. "African Economic Growth and the Public Sector: Lessons from Historical 

Statistics of Cameroon." African Economic History, No. 19, pp. 135-170. 

1990a. "Slave Trade: The Formal Demography of a Global System." Social Science 

History 14, 2, pp. 255-79. 

1990b. "Coastal Society in Benin Republic: Reproduction of a Regional System." Cahiers 

d'Etudes Africaines. 

1988a. "Divining the Unprovable: Simulating the Demography of African Slavery." 

Journal of Interdisciplinary History 19, 2, pp. 177-201. Co-authored with William 

S. Griffiths. 

1988b. "The Prospects for African Economic History: is Today Included in the Long 

Run?" African Studies Review 30, 2, pp. 49-62. 

1988c. "Escravidão e mudança social na Africa." Novos Estudos CEBRAP, 21, pp. 8-29. 

This Portuguese translation of my "Contours of Slavery and Social Change in 

Africa" (1983) appeared in a leading Brazilian journal. 

1985. "Primitive Art and Modern Times." Radical History Review, No. 33, pp. 165-181. 

1983. "Contours of Slavery and Social Change in Africa." American Historical Review 

88, 4, pp. 835-57 

1981. "The Enslavement of Africans: A Demographic Model." Canadian Journal of 

African Studies 15, 3, pp. 499-526. 

1980a. "The Technology of Production in Southern Dahomey, c. 1900." African 

Economic History, No. 9, pp. 49-67. 

1980b. "Public Finance and Capital Investment: A National Perspective on Colonial 

Dahomey." Canadian Journal of African Studies 14, 3, pp. 519-24. 

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1974. "Notes Toward a Theory of Ideology in Historical Writing on Modern Africa." 

Canadian Journal of African Studies 8, 2, pp. 235-53. 

1969. "Slaves, Palm Oil, and Political Power on the West African Coast." African 

Historical Studies 2, 2, pp. 279-288. 

1967. "Some Export Statistics for Nigeria, 1880-1905." Nigerian Journal of Economic 

and Social Studies 9, 2, pp. 229-34. 

Articles and Chapters in Books: 

Forthcoming. ―World History and the African Migration Simulation.‖ In a volume to 

appear at the University of Nebraska Press. 

Forthcoming, ―Modeling Family History of Early-Modern Frontier Zones.‖ In a volume 

to appear at Cambridge University Press. 

Forthcoming. ―African Population: Projections, 1851-1961.‖ Karl Ittman and Gregory 

Maddox, eds., in a volume on African historical demography. 

Forthcoming. ―Interpreting Globally: Modeling the African Diaspora through Cultural 

Interactions.‖ Robert L. Hall, ed., in a volume on African-American studies. 

2007. ―Nordamerikanische Ansätze sur Globalgeschichte‖ [―North American 

Approaches to World History‖], trans. Tilman Lüdke. Birgit Schäbler, ed., Area 

Studies und die Welt: Weltregionen und neue Globalgeschichte (Vienna: 

Mandelbaum Verlag), pp. 59-89. 

2007. “Legacies of Slavery: Comparisons of Labour and Culture.” Maria-Suzette Dias- 

Fernandes, ed., Legacies of Slavery: Comparative Perspectives (Newcastle upon 

Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing). 

2006a. ―Slavery and Slave Trade in West Africa, 1450-1930.‖ Emmanuel Akyeampong, 

ed, Themes in West Africa‘s History (Oxford: James Currey), pp. 99-117. 

2006b. ―African Connections with American Colonization, 1400-1850.‖ Victor Bulmer- 

Thomas and John Coatsworth, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of Latin 

America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 43-71. 

2006c. ―Diasporic Streams in PanAfricanism, Capitalism, and Marxism: The Social 

Sources of Ideology.‖ William A. Little et al., eds., The Borders in All of Us: New 

Approaches to Global Diasporic Societies (Northridge, CA: New World African 

Press, 2006), pp. 182-200. 

2006d. ―Concepts and Institutions for World History: The Next Ten Years.‖ Patrick 

Manning, ed., World History: Global and Local Interactions (Princeton: Markus 

Wiener), pp. 229-258. 

2004a. ―Methods and Materials.‖ Marnie Hughes-Warrington, ed., Palgrave Guide to 

World Histories (London: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 44-63. 

2004b. ―Gender in the African Diaspora: Electronic Research Materials.‖ Sandra 

Gunning, Tera W. Hunter, and Michele Mitchell, eds., Dialogues of Dispersal: 

Gender, Sexuality and African Diasporas (Oxford: Blackwell), 179-191. 

1998. ―La traite négrière et l‘évolution démographique de l‘Afrique.‖ Doudou Diène, 

ed., La chaine et le lien : Une vision de la traite négrière (Paris: UNESCO, 1998), 

pp. 153-73. 

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1997. ―The Advantages and Limitations of Simulation in Analysing the Slave Trade.‖ 

Robin Law, ed., Source Material for Studying the Slave Trade and the African 

Diaspora (Centre of Commonwealth Studies, Univrsity of Stirling, Occasional 

Paper Number 5, December 1997), pp. 69-78. 

1996a. ―Introduction.‖ Patrick Manning, ed., Slave Trades, 1500-1800: Globalization of 

Forced Labour (Ashgate: Variorum, 1996), xv-xxxiv. 

1996b. ―History in the Era of Theory, Methodology, and Multiculturalism: New 

Configurations for the Discipline." Lawrence Dowler, ed., Gateways to 

Knowledge: the Role of Academic Libraries in Teaching, Learning and Research 

(Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996), 19-34. 

1994a. "The Impact of the Slave Trade on the Societies of West and Central Africa." 

Anthony Tibbles, ed., Transatlantic Slavery: Against Human Dignity (London, 

1994), 97-104. 

1994b. "Cultural History: Paths in Academic Forests." Joseph C. Miller and David 

Newbury, eds., Paths Toward the Past: African Historical Essays in Honor of Jan 

Vansina (Atlanta, 1994), 439-54. 

1994c. "The Place of Africa and African Scholars in Global Studies." Merrick 

Posnansky, ed., Proceedings: Japanese/American Workshop for Cooperation in 

Africa (Los Angeles, 1994), 1-11. 

1990. "Slave Trade: The Formal Demography of a Global System." Joseph E. Inikori 

and Stanley L. Engerman, eds., Slavery in the Atlantic (Durham: Duke University 

Press, 1990), 117-141. 

1988. "The Impact of Slave Trade Exports on the Population of the Western Coast of 

Africa, 1700-1850." Serge Daget, ed., De la Traite a l'esclavage, 2 vols. (Paris, 

Societe francaise d'histoire d'Outre-Mer), II:111-34. 

1987. "Local versus Regional Impact of Slave Exports on Africa." Dennis D. Cordell and 

Joel W. Gregory, eds., African Population and Capitalism: Historical Perspectives 

(Boulder: Westview), 35-49. 

1986. "Slave Trade, 'Legitimate' Trade, and Imperialism Revisited: The Control of 

Wealth in the Bights of Benin and Biafra." Paul E. Lovejoy, ed., Africans in 

Bondage: Essays in Honor of Philip D. Curtin (Madison), 203-233. 

1985. "Merchants, Porters, and Canoemen in the Bight of Benin: Links in the West 

African Trade Network." Paul E. Lovejoy and Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, 

eds., The Workers of African Trade (Beverly Hills: Sage), 51-74. 

1983. "L'Affaire Adjovi : la bourgeoisie foncière naissante au Dahomey, face à 

l'administration." Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, ed., Entreprises et entrepreneurs 

en Afrique, 2 vols. (Paris: Harmattan), I:241-262. 

1982. "A Demographic Model of African Slavery." Christopher Fyfe and David 

McMaster, eds., African Historical Demography, Vol. 2 (Edinburgh: African 

Studies Centre), 371-384. 

1981. "Le Mouvement national au Dahomey." Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, ed., 

Mutations économiques et sociales à la campagne et à la ville (Paris: Laboratoire 

Connaissance du Tiers-Monde). 

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1979. "The Slave Trade in Southern Dahomey, 1640-1890." Henry A. Gemery and Jan S. 

Hogendorn, eds., The Uncommon Market: Essays in the Economic History of the 

Atlantic Slave Trade (New York: Academic Press), 109-141. 

1978. "The Economy of Early Colonial Dahomey." Joseph Smaldone, ed., Explorations 

in Quantitative African History (Syracuse), 25-52. 

Review Articles 

2007. ―William H. McNeill: Lucretius and Moses in World History.‖ History and 

Theory 46, 3, pp. 428-445. 

2005. ―A New Compendium of the African Past.‖ South African Historical Journal. 54, 

pp. 127-136. Published July 2006. 

2004. ―Gutenberg-e: Electronic Entry to the Historical Professoriate.‖ American 

Historical Review 109, 5, pp. 1505-1526. 

2003a. ―Africa and the African Diaspora: New Directions of Study.‖ Journal of African 


2003b. ―Gender in the African Diaspora: Electronic Research Materials.‖ Gender and 


1996. ―African Economic History, A View from the Continent.‖ Comparative Studies of 

South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 16, 1, pp. 117-121. 

1990. "Slavery and the Slave Trade in Colonial Africa." Journal of African History 31, 1, 

pp. 135-40. 

1988. "The Anthropology of Slavery." African Economic History 17, pp. 147-52. 

1986. "Hegelian Dialectics in Benin Kingdom Historiography." Canadian Journal of 

African Studies 20, 3, pp. 431-35. 

1985. "Religion and Factionalism in the Asante Hinterland: The Non-Peasant Politics of 

a Peasant Society." Peasant Studies 12, 2, pp. 137-149. 

1976. "Problems of Ineffective Government in Post-Colonial Dahomey." Canadian 

Journal of African Studies 10, 3, pp. 525-528. 

Shorter Publications 

Forthcoming. “Migration” Encyclopedia of World History. 

Forthcoming. “Forced Migration.” Encyclopedia of Transnational History. 

2008. “Africa in World History and Historiography.” Donald A. Yerxa, ed., Recent 

Themes in the History of Africa and the Atlantic World: Historians in 

Conversation (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2008), 25-28. 

2007. “Teaching Digital World History.” Historically Speaking 8, pp. 37-38. 

2006b. “Commentary: A Comparison of Comparisons.” Afrika Zamani, nos. 11 & 12 

(2003-2004), pp. 162-168. 

2006a. ―Presenting History to Policymakers: Three Position Papers.‖ Perspectives 

(American Historical Association) 44:3 (March). 

2005. ―History Doctoral Programs Web Site Updated to Provide Improved Information 

for Applicants.‖ Perspectives 43:6 (September). 

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2004a. ―AHA Opens Pilot Web Pages on History Doctoral Programs.‖ Perspectives 42:7 

(November). 

2004b. ―Africa in World History and Historiography.‖ Historically Speaking 6, pp. 14-15. 

2004c. ―Slavery, Historical.‖ Dinah L. Shelton, ed., Encyclopedia of Genocide and 

Crimes Against Humanity (Macmillan Reference). 

2004d. “The Past is Another Planet: The Absence of Funding for Global Historical 

Research.” World History Connected vol. 1, no. 2, 12 pars. 

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2003a. ―Slavery, Demography of.‖ Paul Demeny and Geoffrey McNicoll, eds., 

Encyclopedia of Demography, 2 vols. (New York: Gale), II:895-898. 

2003b. ―Preaching and Practicing Global (Contemporary) History.‖ Erwägen Wissen 

Ethik, 14, pp. 101-102. 

1999a. "Doctoral Training in World History: The Northeastern University Experience." 

Perspectives (March), pp. 35-37. 

1999b. ―Slavery in Africa.‖ Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds. 

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience 

(New York: Basic Books), pp. 1720-1722. 

1999c. ―The Monograph in World History: Philip Curtin‘s Comparative Approach.‖ 

World History Bulletin (Spring), 12-17. 

1999d. ―African Kingdoms During the Middle Ages.‖ Footsteps: African-American 

History (September/October 1999), 34-37. 

1998. ―Demographic Analysis of Slaves and Slavery.‖ Paul Finkelman and Joseph C. 

Miller, eds., Macmillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery (New York: Macmillan 

Reference USA), I:241-248. 

1998. ―Preparing Your Proposal for the Year 2000 Annual Meeting.‖ Perspectives 

(September). 

1996. ―Preparing your proposal for the 1998 annual meeting.‖ Perspectives (September). 

1995. "Preparing your proposal for the 1997 annual meeting." Perspectives (September), 

p. 12. 

1992a. "Methodology and World History in a Ph.D. Program." Perspectives (April), pp. 

23, 25. 

1992b. "Francophone Africa." Entry in the Oxford Companion to World Politics 

1990-91. "The Warp and Woof of Precolonial African Industry." African Economic 

History, No. 19, pp. 25-30. Response to an article by John Thornton. 

1990a. "Editors' Introduction." Radical History Review, Nos. 46-47, pp. 3-15. Coauthored 

with Joshua Brown, KarinShapiro and Jon Wiener. 

1990b. "African Studies." Paul Buhle, ed., The Encyclopedia of the American Left. 

1989. "Joel Gregory: An Appreciation." Canadian Journal of African Studies 23, 1, pp. 

1-4. 

1987. "Editors' Introduction." Radical History Review, No. 39, pp. 3-10. Co-authored 

with Allen Howard and Peter Weiler. 

1987. "South African History: A Radical's Introduction." Radical History Newsletter, 

No. 52, p. 3. 

1985. "History of Three Worlds -- Africa, America, Europe," course syllabus in Kevin 

Reilly, ed., World History: Selected Reading Lists and Course Outlines from 

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American Colleges and Universities (New York), 167-171. Co-authored with 

Arthur P. Dudden. 

1984. "Editors' Introduction." Radical History Review, No. 31, pp. 2-4. Co-authored 

with Richard Yeselson. 

1982. "Response to Comments by Caldwell and Inikori." Canadian Journal of African 

Studies 16, 1, pp. 138-139. 

1980. "Things Fall Together: The Use of Literature in Teaching African History." 

Bulletin of the Southern Association of Africanists 8, 3, pp. 24-31. 

1975. "Un Document sur la fin de l'esclavage au Dahomey." Notes africaines, No. 147, 

pp. 88-92. 

1974. "Analyzing the Costs and Benefits of Colonialism." African Economic History 

Review 1, 2, pp. 15-22. 

Editorial Direction 

1995. AHA Guide to the Historical Literature. I served as editor of world history subsections 

on Demography and on Atlantic Worlds 1600-1900. 

1990. Radical History Review, Issues 46-47 (Special issue on History from South 

Africa). I was co-coordinator of this issue, along with Joshua Brown, Karin 

Shapiro and Jon Wiener. 

1987. Radical History Review, Issue No. 39. I was co-coordinator of this issue (along 

with Allen Howard and Peter Weiler); it includes several major articles on world 

history. 

1984. Radical History Review, Issue No. 31. I was editor of this issue, along with 

Richard Yeselson. 

Book Reviews -- listed at the conclusion of this curriculum vitae 

HONORS AND AWARDS 

These are awards for which I was either the individual recipient, director of a team, or 

co-investigator. 

2009. World History of Science. Co-principal investigator, along with James Lennox of 

History and Philosophy of Science, of a project supported by Andrew Mellon 

Foundation for conferences and publication (through University of Pittsburgh Press) 

of works on history of science and world history of science. 

2007. Visiting Research Scholar. Humanities Research Centre, Australian National 

University, Canberra. 

2005. Visiting Research Scholar. Macquarie University, Sydney. 

2004. Selected as president and chair of the board of the World History Network, Inc., 

an independent nonprofit corporation dedicated to advancing research in world 

history through worldwide connections. 

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2004. Global Economic History Network. Participation in a worldwide network of 

economic historians, based at London School of Economics, with funding from the 

Leverhulme Foundation. 

2003. Elected Vice President (Teaching) of the American Historical Association, to 

serve a three-year term from 2004 through 2006. 

2002. College Board. AP World History Curriculum. Supplementary grant, to cover 

additional costs of developing curricular materials for AP World History. $11,000. 

2001a. College Board. AP World History Curriculum Workshop, to prepare materials for 

publication by the College Board. $88,000. 

2001b. National Endowment for the Humanities. "World History Network" website for 

research and teaching. $240,000. 

2001c. National Endowment for the Humanities. Ten national teaching workshops in 

world history. $156,000. 

2001d. Leften Stavrianos Fund. Seven national teaching workshops in world history. 

$25,000. 

2001e. Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. "World History Symposium III," a 

collaborative teaching conference. $15,000. 

2001f. Boston Public Schools. Prototype grant for preparation of world history ―kits‖ 

for classroom use. $10,000. (This award was declined.) 

2000a. College Board. AP World History National Training Workshop, to train 36 

nationally-selected teacher-presenters. $70,000. 

2000b. Massachusetts Department of Education. Summer institute for teaching World 

History, in association with Georgetown Public Schools. $25,000. 

1999a. Wadsworth Thomson Learning. Programming and production of the Migration in 

Modern World History CD-ROM. $90,000. 

1999b. Massachusetts Department of Education. Summer institute for teaching World 

History, in association with Boston Public Schools. $35,000. 

1998a. Boston-Annenberg Challenge. Professional development for teachers at 

Dorchester High School in Boston. $25,000. 

1998b. Mass. Dept. of Education. Summer institute for teaching World History: 

$45,000. 

1997. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Design of World History Timeline: $15,000. 

1996. Annenberg/CPB. $620,000 for production of ―Migration in ModernWorld 

History,‖ a CD-ROM for a comprehensive, semester-long, introductory college 

course in world history. 

1995. Annenberg/CPB Prototype grant. $72,800 for preparation of a World Wide Web 

prototype, ―Migration: The Americas, 1500-1800.‖ 

1994. National Endowment for the Humanities, Higher Education Division, award for a 

1994-96 lecture-workshop series entitled "Mainstreaming Methodology and World 

History for Undergraduates in History." $130,000. 

1993-96. College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor, Northeastern University. 

This award includes a stipend and research funds for work on revising the 

undergraduate curriculum in history. 

1993. National Endowment for the Humanities Research Award. A two-year award for 

research on Africans in Spanish and Early American Louisiana, renewing the grant 

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initially awarded in 1991. Principal investigator is Gwendolyn M. Hall of Rutgers 

University; I am co-investigator. 

1991. National Endowment for the Humanities Research Award. A two-year award for 

research on Africans in Spanish and Early American Louisiana. Principal 

investigator is Gwendolyn M. Hall of Rutgers University; I am co-investigator. 

1991. Research and Scholarship Development Fund, Northeastern University. For travel 

and research in ten countries on democratization movements of 1989-90. 

1989. Academic Specialist, U.S. Information Agency. 

Presented seven lectures on historical method and history of Benin at the American 

Cultural Center, Cotonou, Benin. 

1988. ACLS Travel Award Recipient. To present a paper on Benin economic history, 

and to make plans for a 1990 international conference on Benin history. 

1986-87. John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. For a year's research on the demography 

of slavery in Africa, 1740-1850, at the Population Studies Center, University of 

Pennsylvania. 

1986. Instructional Development Fund Grant, Northeastern University. Support for 

writing a textbook on Francophone Africa, including travel to Central Africa. 

1985. Research and Scholarship Development Fund Grant, Northeastern University. For 

six weeks of research in Europe and West Africa on the economics of slave supply in 

Africa. 

1983. National Endowment for the Humanities Feasibility Grant. For one month of 

work in preparing a new introductory history course, entitled "History of Three 

Worlds: Africa, America, Europe." 

1981a. American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant. To present paper on Adjovi 

family of Dahomey at Paris conference. 

1981b. Social Science Research Council Grant. For six months of research in Baltimore 

on the political economy of African slavery. 

1980. Social Science Research Council Grant. For six months of research in France on 

the public finance of French West Africa. 

1973-74. African Economic History Research Grant (Ford Foundation). For research in 

West Africa, 1973, and participation in African Economic History Workshop, 

University of Wisconsin-Madison, summer 1974. 

1968. Hoover Institution Research Grant. For bibliography of African economic history. 

1966-67. Foreign Area Fellow. For dissertation research in France and West Africa. 

1965-66. NDFL Fellow. University of Wisconsin - Madison. 

1963-65. Carnegie Fellow. University of Wisconsin - Madison. 

EMPLOYMENT AND AFFILIATIONS 

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. (Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History, 

2006-). 

Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. (Visiting Research Fellow, July-August 2005.) 

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Northeastern University, Boston, MA. (Director of the World History Center, 1997-2004. 

College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History and African- 

American Studies, 1993-96. Interim Chair of African-American Studies 

Department, 1994-96, 1986-87. Professor, 1989-2006; Associate Professor, 1987- 

89; Assistant Professor, 1984-87.) 

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. (Professeur affilié, through election 

by the faculty, April-May 1996). 

University of Pennsylvania. (Guggenheim Fellow, affiliated with the Population Studies 

Center, 1987-8 

Columbia University. (Adjunct Professor of History, Spring 1988.) 

The New School of Music, Philadelphia, PA. (Visiting Associate Professor of History, 

Winter 1984 and Spring 1985.) 

Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA. (Lecturer in History, 1982-84). 

Newberry Library, Chicago. (Fellow and Instructor, Summer 1981 and Summer 1982.) 

Cañada College, Redwood City, CA. (Instructor of History and Economics, 1968-82, 

with leaves as indicated by other entries here.) 

The Johns Hopkins University. (Visiting Fellow, Fall 1981.) 

Université - Paris VII. (Chercheur affilié, Spring 1980.) 

University of California, Berkeley. (Visiting Scholar, 1978-79.) 

California Federation of Teachers, Burbank, CA. (Staff Representative, 1973-74.) 

McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. (Visiting Assistant Professor of History, 1972-73.) 

University of California, Berkeley. (Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Winter 1968- 

69.) 

Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. (Visiting Acting Assistant Professor of History, 

1967-69.) 

DOCTORAL STUDENTS SUPERVISED 

Doctoral students at the University of Pittsburgh. I serve on the doctoral committees of 

the following students: 

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Daniel Bisbee 

Titas Chakraborty 

Lars Peterson 

Kenyon Zimmer 

Doctoral students at Northeastern University. From 1994 to 2006, I served as major 

professor for the Northeastern doctoral candidates in World History listed below. 

Joshua Weiner. Admitted 2000; MA thesis 2003; PhD 2009. Advanced to candidacy in 

July 2003, with passage of comprehensive exams and approval of dissertation 

topic: ―‗Discoveries are not to be called Conquests‘: Narrative, Empire, and the 

Ambiguity of Conquest in Spain‘s American Empire.‖ Now Instructor of History 

at American River College. 

Aiqun Hu. Admitted 2000, matriculated 2001; PhD 2007. Advanced to candidacy in 

November 2003, with passage of comprehensive exams and approval of 

dissertation topic: “Social Insurance: Modern China in Global Context.” I became 

her major professor in June 2004. She is Assistant Professor of History at 

Arkansas State University. 

Tiffany Trimmer. Admitted 1998, completed MA degree 2000; PhD 2007. Took leave 

in 2000, and returned to doctoral study in 2002. Advanced to candidacy in July 

2003, with passage of comprehensive exams and approval of dissertation topic: 

"„Hubs‟ of Migration Traffic." Assistant Professor of History at Bowling Green 

State University. 

Stacy Tweedy. Admitted 2000; MA thesis May 2002, degree awarded 2004. Advanced 

to candidacy in January 2003, with passage of comprehensive exams and 

approval of dissertation topic: "Staging the Nation, Engaging the World: The 

Making of a Prism Place in the African Diaspora. Sophiatown in Twentieth- 

Century South African Politics and Popular Thought." Law degree (2007) 

Washington University of St. Louis. Now a postdoctoral fellow at Pitt with 

support from the National Academy of Education. 

Whitney Howarth. Admitted 1997, degree awarded 2004. Advanced to candidacy in 

June 1999, with passage of comprehensive exams and approval of dissertation 

topic: ―Communalism in South Asia in Global Context.‖ Now Assistant Professor 

of History at Plymouth State University. 

Hector E. Melo. Admitted 1997. Advanced to candidacy in October 1998, with passage 

of comprehensive exams and approval of dissertation topic: ―Latin American 

Migrations in the Twentieth Century: A Survey of Trends, Relationships, and 

Development.‖ Deceased in August 1999. 

Deborah S. Johnston. Admitted 1997, degree awarded 2003. Advanced to candidacy in 

October 2000, with passage of comprehensive exams and approval of dissertation 

topic: ―Reconceptualizing World History: A Curriculum for Secondary and 

College Students.‖ Now teacher of history at Lakeside School, Seattle. 

Jeffrey Sommers. Admitted 1996, degree awarded 2001. Advanced to candidacy in June 


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―‗The Business Point of View‘: Democracy and Hegemony in the World System, 

Capital's Public Relations and Propaganda Agenda.‖ Now Assistant Professor of 

History at Raritan Valley Community College. 

Eric L. Martin. Admitted 1996, degree awarded 2001. Advanced to candidacy in August 


―Twentieth-century Decolonization: a Connected Global Process.‖ Now 

Associate Professor of History at Lewis and Clark State University. 

David Kalivas. Admitted 1996, degree awarded 2000. Advanced to candidacy in August 


"Global Perceptions, Eurasian Realities: The World of Owen Lattimore." Now 

Professor of History at Middlesex Community College 

Desiree Evans. Admitted 1995. Two years of course work, with focus on Caribbean 

history. Took leave from the program. 

Yinghong Cheng. Admitted 1994, degree awarded 2001. Advanced to candidacy in June 


―Western Intellectuals and Eastern ‗New People‘ -- Western Left-Wing 

Intellectuals' Response to the Emergence of the Communist ‗New Man‘.‖ Now 

Associate Professor of History at Delaware State University 

Pamela E. Brooks. Admitted 1994, degree awarded 2000. Advanced to candidacy in 

August 1996, with passage of comprehensive exams and approval of dissertation 

topic: ―Boycotts, Buses, and Passes: Black Women's Resistance in Montgomery, 

Alabama and Johannesburg, South Africa, 1946-1960.‖ Now Associate Professor 

of African-American Studies at Oberlin College 

In addition, I have served as a member of the doctoral committee of students working 

under the direction of other faculty members. 

Armand Garcia (Washington State University). Admitted 2000, major professor John 

Kicza; dissertation completed December 2006. Now Assistant Professor at 

University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. 

Linda Black (Texas A&M University). Admitted to doctoral program in Education in 

2002 for dissertation work on learning in world history classrooms; major 

professor Lynn Burlbaw. Degree completed 2008. Now Assistant Professor of 

Education at Stephen F. Austin University. 

George Dehner. Admitted 1998, major professor Anthony Penna. Degree completed 

2004. Advanced to candidacy in May 2001, with passage of comprehensive 

exams and approval of dissertation topic. Now Assistant Professor of History at 

Wichita State University. 

Jeremy Neill. Admitted 1998, major professor Laura Frader. Degree completed 2004. 

Advanced to candidacy in May 2001, with passage of comprehensive exams and 

approval of dissertation topic. Now Assistant Professor of History at Menlo 

College. 

Bin Yang. Admitted 1998, major professor Christina Gilmartin. Degree completed 2004. 

Advanced to candidacy in May 2001, with passage of comprehensive exams and 

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approval of dissertation topic. Winner of a Gutenberg-e award in 2005 for his 

dissertation. Now Lecturer at the National University of Singapore. 

George Reklaitis. Admitted 1998, major professor Jeffrey Burds; dissertation completed 

May 2003. Now Assistant Professor of History at Brookdale Community College. 

John Bernhart (Temple University). Ph.D. awarded 2001 at Temple University, under 

the direction of Peter Gran. 

H. Parker James (Tufts University). Ph.D. awarded 2001 at Tufts University, under the 

direction of Lynda N. Shaffer. He served as Associate Director of the World 

History Center, 2002-2004. 

Rosalie Haines (Bryn Mawr College). Ph.D. in Anthropology awarded 1990 at Bryn 

Mawr College, under the direction of Judith Shapiro. 

Further, I have advised numerous M.A. students in History, several of whom have gone 

on to do doctoral work at major universities. In years before 1994, at various times I have 

had primary or secondary responsibility for supervising the work of doctoral students in 

History at Stanford University, McGill University, and Columbia University. 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 

World History Activities (all are mentioned elsewhere in this c.v.) 

2004-2007. President and chair of the board of World History Network, Inc., an 

independent nonprofit corporation dedicated to advancing research in world 

history through worldwide connections. 

2001-2004. Project director, ―World History Network,‖ supported by the National 

Endowment for the Humanities. With co-director Heidi Roupp, I am developing 

a comprehensive gateway for research, teaching, and curriculum in world history 

on the Internet (http://www.worldhistorynetwork.org). 

1999-2003. "World History Databank." A collaborative effort to collect data on issues in 

economic, demographic, and social history on a global basis for the past four 

centuries. Initial proposals for support were submitted to the National Science 

Foundation in 1999 and 2000. 

1994-2004. Director of the World History Center at Northeastern University. This 

center supports research, curriculum development, and instructional outreach in 

world history. Its Web site (http://www.whc.neu.edu) includes significant 

resources in world history, and links to other resources. 

1998-2002. Director of the World History Resource Center. The Resource Center 

included a unique library of world-historical teaching materials. It directed over 

thirty multi-day teacher workshops on world history in Massachusetts from 1998 

to 2001, and administered fifty multi-day workshops nationally in 2001 and 2002. 

1994-2002. Co-editor of H-WORLD (with Kenneth Pomeranz and Whitney Howarth), 

the H-Net electronic discussion group in world history. Provides daily postings to 

over 1500 subscribers, and includes a substantial Web site. 

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1995-2000. Project director, ―Migration in Modern World History CD-ROM,‖ supported 

by The Annenberg/CPB Project. This instructional CD-ROM, intended for use as 

the base of a survey course in modern world history, was published in 2000 by 

Wadsworth Publishing Co. 

1994-97. Member of steering committee of Globalizing Regional Histories initiative, 

sponsored by the American Historical Association. This initiative, headed by 

Renate Bridenthal and Sandria Freitag, launched an attempt to link historians 

working in various area-studies traditions, and to elicit a wider dialogue on global 

themes in history. It resulted in research conferences in 2001 and 2003 at the 

Library of Congress, and conferences of community college faculty at the Library 

of Congress in 2001-2003. 

1994-96. Graduate Coordinator, Department of History. Primary responsibility for the 

graduate program as the Ph.D. program was established. 

1989-93. I was active in the Northeastern History Department's efforts to establish a 

Ph.D. program, with particular interest in the proposed program's innovations in 

methodology and world history. The program was approved in 1993, and I 

became Graduate Coordinator. 

Editorial Boards 

Co-moderator, H-WORLD (with Daniel Segal, Pitzer College, Kenneth Pomeranz, 

University of California - Irvine, Whitney Howarth, Northeastern University, 

Patricia O‘Neill, College of Central Oregon; and David Kalivas, Middlesex 

Community College), September 1994 to June 2002. H-WORLD is an electronic 

discussion list on the Internet; it is one of 130 such lists in the H-NET group of 

lists centered at Michigan State. H-WORLD has roughly 1500 subscribers. 

Co-editor of "The World History of Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation" (with John 

Saillant, Western Michigan University, and Anthony Henderson-Whyte, 

Princeton University), since September 1994. This electronic journal, distributed 

via the Internet, is oriented toward scholars all around the Atlantic, with 

particular emphasis on Africa and Latin America. 

Member, editorial board of the American Historical Review, 2000-04. Reviewing 

especially in world history. 

Member editorial board of the African Studies series, Cambridge University Press, 1992- 

2003. From 1999 to 2003 I served as chair of the editorial board of this major 

series, which has published over seventy volumes. 

Member editorial board, Northeastern University Press, 1992-94. 

Member editorial board, Social Science History, 1989-93. 

Member editorial board, African Studies Review, 1981-88. 

Member editorial collective, Radical History Review, 1983-92. Issue Coordinator for 

Issue No. 31 (1984), Issue No. 39 (1987), Issues No. 46-47 (1990). 

Review editor, African Economic History Review, 1974-76. 

Contributing Editor, The Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers (Robert A. Hill, General 

Editor). 

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Consulting 

2008. The College of New Jersey. Consulting on undergraduate education in world 

history. 

2007. College of William & Mary. Consulting on graduate education in world history. 

2005. University of California, Riverside. External review of the graduate program in 

history. 

2004. Salem State University. External review of the Department of History. 

2003. Delaware State University. Consulting on undergraduate education in world 

history. 

2003. University of Pittsburgh. Consulting on graduate education in world history. 

2003. Concordia University, Montreal. Consulting on undergraduate education in world 

history. 

2003. Reader of AP World History exams for College Board in Lincoln, Nebraska. 

2003. University of Tennessee. Consulting on graduate education in world history. 

2003. Arizona State University. Consulting on graduate education in world history. 

2003. University of Florida – Gainesville. Consulting on graduate education in world 

history. 

2003. Universit of Massachusetts – Amherst. Program review. 

2003. Wabash College. Program review. 

2002. Salem State College. Consulting on undergraduate study and teacher preparation 

in world history. 

2002. Georgia State University. Consulting on graduate education in world history. 

2002. University of Kentucky. Consulting on graduate education in world history. 

2002. Howard University. Consulting on graduate education in world history. 

2002. Florida International University. With the AHA Committee on Graduate 

education 

2002. Rice University. Consulting on graduate education in world history. 

2001-2002. Miles College. Program review. 

2001. California State University, Northridge. Consultation on undergraduate and 

graduate study in world history; lecture. 

2000-2001. Digital Learning Interactive. Preparation of web modules in world history. 

2000-2002. College Board. Direction of workshop for teacher-presenters, preparation of 

curriculum on AP World History for publication by College Board. 

1999-2002. Member of AP World History Development Committee, supported by 

Educational Testing Service. 

2000. Hawaii Pacific University. Program review. 

1999. Brooklyn College. Program review. 

1997. Southwestern University. Program review. 

1996. University of Virginia. Presentation on graduate study in world history. 

1996. College of Charleston. Program review. 

1996. James Madison University. Program review. 

1996-97. Houghton-Mifflin Co. and WGBH. Advisory Board member for historical 

video series, ―The People‘s Century.‖ 

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1992-94. Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool, England. Preparation of an exhibit 

on the Atlantic slave trade at the museum, opening October 1994. 

1992-93. WGBH-TV, Boston. Advice on script and graphics for programming in 

proposed "Africans in America" series. 

Manuscript Review 

Reviews of scholarly manuscripts for American Historical Review, Journal of Economic 

History, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Journal of African History, International 

Journal of African Historical Studies, Canadian Journal of African Studies, African 

Economic History, Agricultural History, African Studies Review, Africana Journal, 

Comparative Politics, Canadian Social Science Research Council, Cambridge University 

Press, University Press of Virginia, University of Wisconsin Press, University Presses of 

Florida, and Lynne Rienner Press. Reviews of multimedia and textbook manuscripts for 

Wadsworth, McGraw-Hill, D. C. Heath, West Publishing, McDougal-Littel, and 

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 

Other Professional Service 

2009-2011. Member of the Board of Trustees, National Council for History Education. 

2007-2008. Program Chair, 50 th annual meeting of the African Studies Association 

(Chicago, November 2008). 

2004-2007. Vice President of the American Historical Association for the Teaching 

Division. 

1996-97. Evaluator, Social Science Research Council International Dissertation 

Research Fellowship. 

1995. Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities program in Education 

Development and Dissemination. 

1986-88. Member African History Advisory Committee for the Fulbright Scholar 

Program. 

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MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS 

American Historical Association, World History Association, African Studies 

Association, Economic History Association, Social Science History Association, New 

England Regional World History Association. 

UNPUBLISHED STUDIES, LECTURES, CONFERENCE 

PRESENTATIONS 

Some Recent Papers, Lectures, and Conferences (from 1997) 

Add 2006 papers. 

―Periodization of global migration history.‖ First Global Migration History Conference, 

Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study, Wassenaar, December 16, 2005. 

―Les gens d‘origine africaine en Europe : leurs contributions à la grande diaspora 

africaine.‖ Colloque international : Les Africains et leurs descendants en Europe 

avant le XXe siècle, Toulouse, December 9, 2005. 

―Area Studies and World History: Overlaps and Tensions.‖ European Congress in Global 

and World History, Leipzig, September 23, 2005. 

―Imperial Balance Sheets Revisited: African Empires of France and Britain, 1900-1960.‖ 

Global Economic History Network, Bogazici University, Istanbul, September 11, 

2005. Also presented at the Northwest World History Association conference, 

Portland, Oregon, October 22, 2005. 

―‗Empires of the Mind‘: African-American Universal Histories.‖ Jointly presented with 

Marnie Hughes-Warrington at Macquarie University, August 10, 2005. 

―Global Comparisons in Slavery: Dynamics of Labor and Culture.‖ Plenary address at 

conference on ―Legacies of Slavery: Comparative Perspectives,‖ at the Centre for 

Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University, Canberra, July 11, 2005. 

―Research Agenda in World History: Past and Present Choices.‖ University of 

California, Los Angeles, Department of History, May 13, 2005. Also presented at 

the World History Association conference, Ifrane, Morocco, June 28, 2005. 

―African Diaspora: The Struggle for Citizenship, 1900-1960.‖ Harvard University, 

Department of African and African American Studies, May 4, 2005. 

―African Diaspora: The Struggle for Survival, 1600-1800.‖ University of the West Indies, 

Mona, April 29, 2005. 

―African Diaspora: The Struggle for Emancipation, 1800-1900.‖ University of the West 

Indies, St. Augustine, April 28, 2005. 

―Colonial African Populations.‖ University of Houston, April 13, 2005. 

―Drums on the Move: An Exploration in Africa-Diaspora Studies.‖ Tufts University, 

November 17, 2004. 

―Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Migratory System in Comparative Perspective.‖ Berlin, 

European Social Science History Conference, March 2004. 

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―Concepts and Institutions for World History: The Next Ten Years.‖ Plenary Address, 

conference on World History: The Next Ten Years. Boston, March 13, 2004. 

―Do We Still Believe in Race? A Historian‘s View.‖ University of Massachusetts-Lowell, 

February 16, 2004. 

―African Population in the Slave-Trade Era.‖ Boston University, December 2003. 

―African Population in the Slave-Trade Era: Focus on the Bight of Benin.‖ University of 

Pittsburgh, October 2003. 

―1789-1792 and 1989-1992: Global Social Movements and their Oceanic Connections.‖ 

Seascapes Conference, Washington, D.C., February 2003. 

―Homo Sapiens Populates the Earth: A Provisional Synthesis, Privileging Linguistic 

Evidence.‖ Georgia State University, October 2002. 

―Family in World History.‖ University of Kentucky, October 2002. 

―Migration and Social History Data.‖ Presented as part of a panel on ―Creating a Webbased 

Datbank for World History since 1700‖ at the World History Association 

9 th international conference, Boston, June 23, 2001. 

―Types of Comparison and Types of Linkages.‖ Presented as part of a panel on 

―Interpretive Strategies: Comparative vs Connective World History‖ at the World 

History Association 9 th international conference, Boston, June 24, 2001. 

―The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture.‖ Presented to ―Crossing 

Boundaries,‖ a conference on the African Diaspora at New York University and 

the Schomburg Center for Afro-American Culture, November 2000. 

"Hector E. Melo and Global Studies in Latin American Migration." Presented to the 

World History Seminar, Northeastern University, January 26, 2000. 

"Atlantic Slave Trade: Magnitude and Demographic Impact." Presented to the World 

History Seminar, Northeastern University, December 2, 1998. 

―Technology in World History: an Introductory Exploration.‖ Presented jointly with 

William K. Storey to the World History Seminar, Northeastern University, 

October 24, 1997. 

Major Unpublished Studies 

The studies below were accepted for publication in various books and journals, but never 

published. 

1993. "Benin and the World." Babalola Olabiyi Yai, ed., Festschrift for Pierre Verger. 

1990. "Slave Labourers in Africa: 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries." African Labour 

History. 

1989. "L'Idéal républicain : Haiti , la Revolution française, et les africains sous la 

colonisation française." 

1989. "L'Afrique et la Révolution française : leçons pour le 21e siècle." 

1987. "The Impact of the Slave Trade: Speculation, Debate, Method, Evidence." 

Annales de Démographie historique 

1987. "L'Essor de la culture francophone africaine." 

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BOOK REVIEWS 

I have published over sixty book reviews in journals including American Historical 

Review, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Journal of 

African History, International Journal of African Historical Studies, Population and 

Development Review, Journal of World History, Canadian Journal of African Studies, 

African Studies Review, African Economic History, Journal of Caribbean History, 

Journal of Asian and African Studies, and Africana Journal. 

2008. Emma Christopher, Slave Ship Sailors and their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1807. 

Reviewed in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 38, pp. 445-446. 

2006a. Frederick Cooper, Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History. 

Reviewed in American Historical Review 111, p. 431. 

2006b. James C. Rawley, with Stephen D. Behrendt, The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A 

History, rev. ed. Reviewed in Journal of African History 47, p. 529. 

2006c. Maura I. Toro-Morn and Marixsa Alicea, eds., Migration and Immigration: A 

Global View. Reviewed in Journal of Social History 40, pp. 520-522. 

2006d. José C. Curto and Paul E. Lovejoy, eds., Enslaving Connections: Changing 

Cultures of Africa and Brazil during the Era of Slavery. Reviewed in Africa 

Today 52, pp. 120-121. 

2005. Sylviane Diouf, ed., Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies. Reviewed 

in Journal of African History 46, pp. 514-515. 

2004a. Review of David Christian, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History. 

Reviewed online for H-WORLD 

2004b. Review of Dirk Hoerder, Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second 

Millennium; Donna R. Gabaccia, Italy‘s Many Diasporas; and Adam McKeown, 

Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, Hawaii, 1900- 

1936. Reviewed in Population and Development Review 30 (2004), 352-356. 

2004c. ―Migration: A Millennium of Mesolevel Analysis.‖ Review of Dirk Hoerder, 

Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium. Reviewed in 

International Review of Social History 49, pp. 500-504. 

2004d. William B. Cohen, The French Encounter with Africans: White Response to 

Blacks, 1530-1880, 2 nd ed. Reviewed in Research in African Literatures 35, 4, 

pp. 172-173. 

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2004e. Christopher Ehret, The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800. Reviewed in 

Journal of World History 15, 1, pp. 243-246. 

2002a. Robin Law and Paul E. Lovejoy, eds. The Biography of Mahommah Gardo 

Baquaqua: His Passage from Slavery to Freedom in Africa and America. 

Reviewed in International Journal of African Historical Studies 35, 2-3, pp. 616- 

617. 

2002b. David B. Abernethy, The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas 

Empires, 1415-1980. Reviewed in African Studies Review. 

2002c. David Eltis et al, The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM. 

Reviewed in Journal of African History 43, 3, pp. 512-513. 

2001a. Conklin, Alice, A Mission to Civilize. Reviewed in Journal of African History 

40, pp. 491-2. 

2001b. David Eltis and David Richardson, Routes to Slavery. Reviewed in Journal of 

African History 40, p. 514. 

2001c. Saul S. Friedman, Jews and the American Slave Trade. Reviewed for Shofar. 

1999. Hugh Thomas, The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440- 

1980. Reviewed in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 30, 1, p. 111. 

1995a. T. Zeleza, A Modern Economic History of Africa. Reviewed in Journal of 

African History 36, 1, pp. 145-147, 

1995b. P. Lovejoy and J. Hogendorn, Slow Death for Slavery, Reviewed for American 


1995c. R. McDonald, The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves. Reviewed in 

International Journal of African Historical Studies 28, 2, pp. 379-380. 

1994. F. Cooper, et al, Confronting Historical Paradigms, Reviewed in Agricultural 


1993a. John Thornton, Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World. Reviewed 

in American Historical Review 98, 2, pp. 469-470. 

1993b. Claude Meillassoux, Anthropology of Slavery. Reviewed Journal of 

Interdisciplinary History 24, 2, pp. 399-400. 

1992. Robin Law, The Slave Coast of West Africa 1550-1750. Reviewed in Journal of 

African History 34, pp. 323-4. 

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1991. Sophie Dulucq and Odile Goerg, editors, Les Investissements publics dans les 

villes africaines. Habitat et transports. Reviewed in International Journal of 

African Historical Studies 24, 2, pp. 424-5. 

1991. Johannes Postma, The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1815. Reviewed 

in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 22, 1, p. 131. 

1990a. Joseph C. Miller, Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave 

Trade, 1730-1830. Reviewed in Slavery and Abolition. 

1990b. W. G. Clarence-Smith, ed., The Economics of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade in 

the 19th Century. Reviewed in Journal of African History 32, 1, pp. 153-55. 

1990c. Robert Harms, Games Against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of 

Equatorial Africa. Reviewed in American Historical Review 95, 5, pp. 1398-99. 

1990d. John Iliffe, The African Poor: A History. Reviewed in Journal of Economic 


1990e. Mary McCarthy, Social Change and the Growth of British Power in the Gold 

Coast: The Fante States 1807-1874. Reviewed in Africana Journal 15, pp. 398- 

99. 

1989. G. Liesegang, H. Pasch, and A. Jones, eds., Figuring African Trade. Reviewed in 

African Economic History, No. 18, pp. 178-179. 

1988a. Richard Roberts, Warriors, Merchants and Slaves: The State and the Economy in the 

Middle Niger Valley, 1700-1914. Reviewed in Journal of Economic History 48, 4, 

pp. 952-53. 

1988b. Jan Hogendorn and Marion Johnson, The Shell Money of the Slave Trade. 

Reviewed in International Journal of African Historical Studies 21, 1, pp. 119-20. 

1988c. Tony Martin, Marcus Garvey, Hero: A First Biography. Journal of Caribbean 

History. 

1987. A. D. Roberts, ed., The Cambridge History of Africa. Vol. 7. From c. 1905 to c. 

1940. Reviewed in Journal of Economic History 47, 4, pp. 1027-1028. 

1986a. Jane I. Guyer, Family and Farm in Southern Cameroon. Reviewed in African 

Economic History, No. 14, pp. 217-219. 

1986b. Peter Duignan and L. H. Gann, The United States and Africa: A History. Reviewed 

in Journal of Economic History 46, 1, pp. 312-313. 

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1985a. Claire C. Robertson and Martin Klein, eds., Women and Slavery in Africa. 

Reviewed in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 16, 2, pp. 367-369. 

1985b. David Birmingham and Phyllis M. Martin, eds., History of Central Africa, 2 vols. 

Reviewed in International Journal of African Historical Studies 18, 2, pp. 325-326. 

1985c. Terence K. Hopkins, Immanuel Wallerstein, and associates, World-Systems 

Analysis: Theory and Methodology. Reviewed in African Economic History, No. 

13, pp. 222-224. 

1985d. Boniface I. Obichere, ed., Studies in Southern Nigerian History. Reviewed in 

African Economic History, No. 13, p. 224. 

1985e. Josephine F. Milburn, British Business and Ghanaian Independence. Reviewed in 


1984a. Ray Kea, Settlements, Trade and Politics in the Seventeenth-Century Gold Coast. 

Reviewed in American Historical Review 89, 3, pp. 823-824. 

1984b. Elias Saad, Social History of Timbuktu: The Role of Muslim Scholars and 

Notables, 1400-1900. Reviewed in American Historical Review 89, 5, pp. 

1371-1372. 

1984c. Robert H. Bates, Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa. Reviewed in 

International Journal of African Historical Studies 17, 3, pp. 562-564. 

1983a. J. E. Inikori, ed., Forced Migration: The Impact of the Export Slave Trade on 

African Societies. Reviewed in Journal of African History 24, 3, p. 416. 

1983b. Victor C. Uchendu, ed., Dependency and Underdevelopment in West Africa. 

Reviewed in International Journal of African Historical Studies 16, 1, p. 146. 

1983c. Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, ed., Societes paysannes du Tiers-Monde. Reviewed 

in International Journal of African Historical Studies 16, 2, p. 305. 

1982. Stephen Baier, An Economic History of Central Niger. Reviewed in International 

Journal of African Historical Studies 15, 1, pp. 93-96. 

1980a. Mahdi Adamu, The Hausa Factor in West African History. Reviewed in American 


1980b. Werner Peukert, Der atlantische Sklavenhandel von Dahomey (1740-1797). 

Reviewed in African Economic History, No. 9, pp. 131-133. 

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1979a. Clive Dewey and A. G. Hopkins, ed., The Imperial Impact: Studies in the Economic 

History of Africa and India. Reviewed in African Economic History, No. 8, pp. 

274-276. 

1979b. Robin Law, The Oyo Empire, c. 1600 - c. 1836. Reviewed in Journal of African 


1978. Alain Auger, L'Afrique historique et geographique. Reviewed in African Economic 

History, No. 6, p. 197. 

1977a. J. Forbes Munro, Africa and the International Economy, 1800-1960. Reviewed in 

American Historical Review 82, 4, p. 1032. 

1977b. Robert July, Precolonial Africa: An Economic and Social History. Reviewed in 


1975a. R. O. Ekundare, An Economic History of Nigeria, 1860- 1960. Reviewed in African 


1975b. Giovanni Arrighi and John S. Saul, Essays on the Political Economy of Africa. 

Reviewed in African Economic History Review 2, 1, pp. 24-27. 

1974a. A. G. Hopkins, An Economic History of West Africa. Reviewed in Canadian 

Journal of African Studies 8, 1, pp. 177-179; reprinted in African Economic History 

Review 1, 1, pp. 12-14. 

1974b. A. E. Afigbo, The Warrant Chiefs. Reviewed in Journal of Asian and African 

Studies 9, 1-2, pp. 125-127. 

1973a. Claude Meillassoux, ed., The Development of Indigenous Trade and Markets in 

West Africa. Reviewed in African Historical Studies 6, 1, pp. 139-141. 

1973b. George Brooks, The Kru Mariner in the Nineteenth Century. Reviewed in African 


1972a. Abner Cohen, Custom and Politics in Urban Africa. Reviewed in African Historical 

Studies 5, 1, pp. 136-137. 

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