Sandra E. Greene
Professor
Office: 303 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 255-4124
Fax: (607) 255-0469
E-Mail: seg6@cornell.edu
Office Hours: TBA
Research and Teaching Interests
My research interest have focused on West Africa and more specifically the social and cultural history of Ghana from the height of the Atlantic Slave Trade (18-19th century) through the early colonial period (prior to world war two).
I am especially interested in documenting the multiple factors leading to changes in local west African practices as these have been modified to meet to the challenges of an increasingly globalized world.
The courses I teach reflect my interest in exploring Arica's encounter with other worlds (the Americas, Europe, the Islamic world, the Indian Ocean world) and the importance I attach to tracing the impact of past events on current practices and ways of thinking about the world.
Courses
| Fall 2008: | 3650 |
West Africa & The West: 1450-1850 |
|---|---|---|
| Spring 2009: | 2410 |
Riot Revolution in 19C Africa HIST 2410 Syllabus |
2550 |
Past & Present: Precolonial Africa HIST 2550 Syllabus |
Other courses taught at Cornell:
HIST 2550: The Past and Present of Pre-Colonial Africa
HIST 2410: Riot and Revolution in 19th Century Africa
HIST 3650: West Africa and the West, 1450-1850
HIST 4420: Enslaved Then and Now - A seminar at the intersection of history and literature.
Future courses to be taught:
Africa and the Islamic World
Africa and India Then and Now
Education
Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1981
M.A. Northwestern University, 1977
B.A. Kalamazoo College, 1974
Recent Publications and Awards
Books
2002 Sacred Sites and the Colonial Encounter : A History of Meaning and Memory in Ghana. Indiana University Press.
Finalist for the 2003 Herskovits Prize (the best book on Africa published in the previous year in the fields of History, Political Science, Art History, Anthropology and Literature).
1996 Gender, Ethnicity and Social Change on the Upper Slave Coast: A History of the Anlo-Ewe, Heinemann Books, Social History in Africa Series.
Honorable Mention by the 1997 Herskovits Prize Committee
Edited Volumes
2007 New Encyclopedia of Africa.5 Vols. Associate Editor. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Cengage.
Research Articles
2008 "Modern Trokosi (Child Slavery) and the 1807 Abolition in Ghana: Connecting Past and Present," William and Mary Quarterly. (forthcoming)
2003 "Whispers and Silences: Explorations in African Oral History," Africa Today, 50, 2, 41-54.
2000 "In the Mix: Women and Ethnic Identities Among the Anlo Ewe", in Ethnicity in Ghana. Edited by Paul Nugent and Carola Lenz. MacmillanPress.
2000 "Cultural Zones in the Era of the Atlantic Slave trade: Exploring the Yoruba Connection among the Anlo-Ewe", in Identities in the Shadow of Slavery. Edited by Paul Lovejoy. London: Continuum.
1999 "Family Concerns: Gender and Ethnicity in Pre-colonial West Africa," in International Review of Social History, Supplement No. 7.
1997 "The Individual as Stranger in 19th Century Anlo: The Politics of Identity and Social Advancement in Pre-colonial West Africa", in The Cloth of Many Colored Silks: Essays in Honor of Ivor Wilks, edited by John Hunwick and Nancy Lawler, Northwestern University Press, Evanston.
1997 "Sacred Terrain: Religion, Politics and Place in the History of Anloga (Ghana)", International Journal of African Historical Studies, 30. 1. Reprinted in Sacred Realms: Essays in Religion, Belief and Society . Edited by Richard Warms, James Garber and Jon Mc Gee. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
1996 "Religion, History and The Supreme Gods of Africa: A Contribution to the Debate", in Journal of Religion in Africa, XXVI, 2.
Awards/Honors
Scared Sites and the Colonial Encounter: Finalist for the 2003 Herskovits Prize (the best book on Africa published in the previous year in the fields of History, Political Science, Art History, Anthropology and Literature).
Society for the Humanities, Cornell University. Faculty Fellow award for the Fall Semester of 1999.
Society for the Humaities, Cornell University. Grant from the Funds for Research in the Humanities to organize an interdisciplinary and comparative world area conference on Gender, Power and Spirit Possession that was held on 17-18 April, 1999.
President; Vice President; Past President. African Studies Association, 1996-1999.
Fulbright Scholar Program. Lecturing/Research Award for Ghana, 1995-1996.
Links
Member of Africana Graduate Field
Member of Institute for Africa Development Advisory Board
Member of Cornell Prison Project Advisory Board