• PHD African History, University of Michigan 1996
World Area Of Focus:
• Africa 75%-99% • Latin America 10%-24%
Languages:
• French (limited working proficiency) • Spanish (limited working proficiency) • Yoruba (elementary proficiency)
Specialization:
Social history of colonial Africa; the Atlantic slave trade; the African Diaspora; Nigeria.
Relevant Experience:
• 2013-2013 Research trip in Liberia • 2008-2008 Directed a UNC study abroad program in Cape Town, South Africa • 2003-2007 Short research trips to Ghana, Togo, and Republic of Benin • 1991-2011 Numerous research trips to southwestern Nigeria (Lagos, Ibadan, Ife), including a year-long stint at the University of Ibadan, 1993-94.
Distinctions:
• 2015-2020 Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professorship for outstanding undergraduate teaching • 2014-2019 Advisory Editorial Board member, Journal of African History • 2014-2017 Abby Fellow, UNC College of Arts and Sciences • 2013-2013 National Endowment for the Humanities research fellowship • 2012-2012 UNC Institute for Arts and Humanities fellows • 2012-2013 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship • 2006-2007 ACLS Ryskamp Fellowship • 2006-ongoing UNC Spray-Randleigh Fellowship • 2005-2005 Named a “Top Young Historian” by the History News Network • 2004-2005 National Humanities Center fellow • 2001-2001 ACLS Research Fellowship • 2000-2000 National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship • 1999-1999 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians article prize
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
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Relevant Courses Taught:
• HIST 083 First Year Seminar: African History through Popular Music • HIST 130 Modern African History • HIST 174H Honors Seminar in African, Asian, and Middle Eastern History • HIST 278 The Transatlantic Slave Trade • HIST 292H Topics in History- The U.S. and Africa • HIST 393 Africa Since 1940 • HIST 534 The African Diaspora • HIST 535 Women and Gender in African History • HIST 890 History of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Recent Publications:
• 2017 Lindsay, Lisa A. Atlantic Bonds: a Nineteenth-century Odyssey from America to Africa. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
• 2017 Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth Century Odyssey from America to Africa. UNC Press.
• 2016 Lindsay, Lisa A. "The Autobiography of Jacob Von Brunn, from African Captive to Liberian Missionary." Slavery & Abolition 37, no. 2 (2016): 446-471.
• 2016 Lindsay, Lisa A., Review of Ibadan Market Women and Politics, 1900-1995, by Mutiat Titilope Oladejo, International Journal of African Historical Studies 49, 2 (2016): 291-92.
• 2014 Lindsay, LA. "Extraversion, Creolization, and Dependency in the Atlantic Slave Trade." Journal of African History 55, no. 2 (2014): 135-145
• 2014 Biography and the Black Atlantic, eds. J Sweet. University of Pennsylvania Press.
• 2013 Lisa A. Lindsay and John Wood Sweet (eds.), "Biography and the Black Atlantic" (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)
• 2013 “The African Diaspora and the Political Imagination,” in The FeedbackLoop: Historians Talk about the Links between Research and Teaching, ed. E Burton. American Historical Association
• 2011 Lindsay L.A. (2011) Brazilian Women in Lagos, 1879-1882. Shaping our Struggles: Nigerian Women in History, Culture and Social Change. Edited by Obioma Nnaemeka and Chima J. Korieh. Trenton, JN: Africa World Press 129-140.
• 2007 Lisa A. Lindsay, Captives as Commodities: The Transatlantic Slave Trade (Prentice Hall, 2007).
• 2007 Lindsay, L. A. (2007) Working with Gender: The Emergence of the ‘Male Breadwinner’ in Colonial Southwestern Nigeria. Africa After Gender? Edited by Catherine M. Cole, Takyiwaa Manuh, and Stephan F. Miescher, 241-252. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• 2003 Lisa A. Lindsay and Stephan F. Miescher (eds.), "Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa" (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2003).
• 2003 Lisa A. Lindsay, "Working with Gender: Wage Labor and Social Change in Southwestern Nigeria" (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2003)
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