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Endowed Chairs
Baker, Keith
Beinin, Joel
Bernstein, Barton
Buc, Philippe
Camarillo, Al
Carson, Clayborne
Chang, Gordon
Como, David
Corn, Joseph
Crews, Robert
Daughton, J.P.
Duus, Peter
Findlen, Paula
Frank, Zephyr
Freedman, Estelle
Haber, Stephen
Hanretta, Sean
Herzog, Tamar
Holloway, David
Jolluck, Katherine
Kahn, Harold
Kennedy, David
Klein, Herbert
Kollmann, Nancy
Lewis, Mark Edward
Lewis, Martin
Lougee Chappell, Carolyn
Mancall, Mark
Miller, Kathryn
Moon, Yumi
Morris, Ian
Mullaney, Thomas
Naimark, Norman
Proctor, Robert N.
Rakove, Jack
Riskin, Jessica
Roberts, Richard
Robinson, Paul
Rodrigue, Aron
Satia, Priya
Schiebinger, Londa
Seaver, Paul
Sheehan, James
Sommer, Matthew
Stansky, Peter
Uchida, Jun
Weiner, Amir
White, Richard
Wigen, Karen
Winterer, Caroline
Zipperstein, Steven
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BIO SKETCH:
Sean Hanretta received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003 and has taught at Stanford since 2004. He specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of West Africa. His particular interests are the history of Islam in Africa and of African religions more generally. Past research has focused on Sufism in Francophone West Africa and his current work is on the concept of “Islamization” in colonial Gold Coast (Ghana). He also has strong interests in historical theory and methodology, the history of the African diaspora, and comparative histories of slavery. He teaches the follownig courses at Stanford: "Islam in Africa," "Power and Knowledge in Early African History," "History without Documents," and "Intellectual and Cultural History of Modern Africa." He is also part of the team of faculty teaching the History Department's new Introduction to the Humanities course, "Worlds of Islam."
COURSES TAUGHT:
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
- Space and Conflict in the Elisabethville Mining Camps, 1923-1938, in A History of Prison and Confinement in Africa. Florence Bernault, ed. (Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2003).
- Women, Marginality and the Zulu State: Women's Institutions and Power in the Early Nineteenth Century, Journal of African History 39 (1998), 389-415.
- Muslim Histories, African Societies: the Venture of Islamic Studies in Africa, forthcoming, Journal of African History, 46:3 (2005), 479-492.
AWARDS:
- Mellon Fellow, 1995-1996
- SSRC Fellow, 1998-1999, 2000-2001
- Fulbright Fellow, 2000-2001
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