Christian Jennings
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Office: 408 CPS Phone: 715-295-8904 E-mail: cjenning@uwsp.edu Title: Assistant Professor Education: B.A.: University of Texas at Austin, 1996 M.A.: University of Texas at Austin, 2000 Ph.D.: University of Texas at Austin, 2005 |
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Courses Taught:
History 101 World History to 1500
History 102 World History since 1500
History 354/554 World Military History to 1850
History 391/591 Contemporary Historical Problems: History of Africa to1800
Specialty:
African history and history of science.
Dissertation:
"Scatterlings of East Africa: Parakuyo Pastoralists and Their History"
Memberships:
American Historical Association
History of Science Society
African Studies Association
Recent Publications:
"Beyond Eponymy: The Evidence for Loikop as an Ethnonym in Nineteenth-Century East Africa." History in Africa 32 (2005), 199-220.
Sources and Methods in African History: Spoken, Written, Unearthed. Editor with Toyin Falola.
Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2003. Selected as a CHOICE 2003 Outstanding Academic Title.
Africanizing Knowledge: African Studies across the Disciplines. Editor with Toyin Falola. Rutgers, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2002.
Work in Progress
Research on the history of marine science in East Africa..
Awards:
Dora Bonham Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 2003
Gardener Marston Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 2003
John Paul Jones Fund Grant, University of Texas at Austin, 2003
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