History Department
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Awards
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Publications & Papers |
Conference Papers
AWARDS
NEH Summer Grant, The Virginia Institute for the Humanities, 2005 ($4200.00).
Visiting Fellowship, African Research Center, Leiden, Netherlands, 2006.
Central Michigan University, Faculty Research and Creative Endeavor Fellowship, 2003 ($7,500.00)
Central Michigan University, Faculty of Humanities, Social and Behavioral Sciences Summer Research Grant, 2003 ($2,000.00)
Rockefeller Foundation African Dissertation Internship Award, 1999 ($21,000.00)
Graduate Fellowship, University of Toronto, 1996-2001 ($14,000/year)
International Student Award, University of Toronto, 1996 ($4000.00)
International Student Award, University of Toronto, 2000 ($4000.00)
International Student Award, University of Toronto, 2001 ($4000.00)
Thesis Completion Grant, University of Toronto, 2001 ($2500.00)
International Research Scholar Award, University of Adelaide Australia, 1997-1998 ($15,000.00/year and tuition).
Norwegian Graduate Research Scholarship, 1994-1996 (Full Scholarship)
Field Research Award, University of Helsinki, 1994
Best Student Award, Kaduna Polytechnic, Kaduna Nigeria, 1986
PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS
Books
Chima J. Korieh with G. Ugo Nwokeji, Religion, History and Politics in Nigeria. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005.
---------. Associate editor, Encyclopedia of Western Imperialism and Colonialism since 1450 (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, Forthcoming).
Referred Articles and Book Chapters
"Alcohol and Empire: "Illicit" Gin Prohibition and Control in Colonial Eastern Nigeria," African Economic History (in press).
"African Studies: Looking at the Past and Envisioning the Future," Special Issue, Journal of Black Studies, (Forthcoming, 2005)
"Hegemonic and Negotiated Encounters: Reflections on Indirect Rule and Protest in Colonial Eastern Nigeria," in F. J. Kolapo and Kwabena O. Akurang-Parry eds., African Agency and European Colonialism: Latitudes of Negotiations and Containment(Forthcoming).
"Islam and Politics in Nigeria: Historical Perspectives," in Chima J. Korieh and G. Ugo Nwokeji, eds., Religion, History and Politics in Nigeria: Essays in Honour of Ogbu U. Kalu (University Press of America, 2005), 109-124.
"Dependence and Autonomy: Widowhood, Gender and Inheritance in Igbo Society," WOREC: Journal of Gender Studies 1, 2 (2004):82-92.
"The Invisible Farmer? Women, Gender, and Colonial Agricultural Policy in the Igbo Region of Nigeria, C. 1913-1954," African Economic History 29, (2001): 1-37.
"The Nineteenth Century Commercial Transition in West Africa: The Case of the Biafran Hinterland," Canadian Journal of African Studies 34, 3 (2000): 588-615.
"State Policy, Agricultural Transformation and Decline in Eastern Nigeria, 1960-1970," in A. Adebayo (ed.) Transformations of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2002, 223-260.
With George Ngede, "Eastern and Central Africa in the Era of Decolonization" in Toyin Falola (ed.) Africa Since 1939: Colonialism, Nationalism and Decolonization. Carolina Academic Press, 2002, 361-378.
"Agriculture" in Toyin Falola (ed.) Africa Volume 5: Modern Africa Since 1960, Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2002, 434-450.
"Food Production and the Food Crisis in sub-Saharan Africa," in Toyin Falola (ed.) African Volume 5: Modern Africa Since 1960, Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2002, 417-433.
"Gender and Peasant Resistance: Recasting the Myth of the Invisible Woman in Colonial Eastern Nigeria, 1925-1945," in A. Adebayo (ed.)The Foundations of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2003, 623-646.
"Urban Food Supply and Vulnerability in Nigeria during the Second World War," in Toyin Falola and Steven J. Salm (Eds.) Nigeria Cities. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2003, 127-152.
"'Other
Bodies', Western Feminism, Race and Representation in Female Circumcision
Discourse," in Obioma Nnaemeka (ed.) African Women and
Imperialism: Refocusing the Circumcision Debate (Greenwood
Press, forthcoming).
Encyclopedia Entries
"African Diaspora" (2000 words) in Paul Finkelman and L. Diane Barnes (ed.) African-American History Reference Series Volume 2: The World of Frederick Douglass, New York:Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2005).
"Diamonds" in Thomas Benjamin, general editor, Encyclopedia of Western Imperialism and Colonialism since 1450 (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005).
"Portugal's African Colonies," in Thomas Benjamin, general editor, Encyclopedia of Western Imperialism and Colonialism since 1450 (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005).
"American Crops" in Thomas Benjamin, general editor, Encyclopedia of Western Imperialism and Colonialism since 1450 (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005).
"Christians: Africa" (5000 words) in Carl Skutsch (ed.) Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities. New York Routlegde, 2004.
"Slavery" (5000 words) in Carl Skutsch (ed.) Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities. New York: Routlegde, 2004.
"Maroons: Bush Negros" (1000 words),in Carl Skutsch (ed.) Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities. New York Routlegde, 2004.
"French Equatorial Africa" in Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and Dickson Eyoh (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History, London: Routledge, 2002, 225-6.
"French West Africa" in Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and Dickson Eyoh (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. London: Routledge, 2002, 266-7.
"Igbo" in Melvin E. Page (ed.)Colonialism: An International Social Cultural and Political Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2003.
Reviews
Workers, War and the Origins of Apartheid: Labour and Politics in South Africa, 1939-48, by Peter Alexander, Oxford: James Curry, Athens: Ohio University Press and Cape Town: David Philip Publishers, 2000, African Studies Quarterly Vol. 7, 1&2 (2003). http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v7/v7i2a24.htm
Invisible Sojourners: African Immigrant Diaspora in the United States by John A. Arthur. Westport, Connecticut and London: Praeger, 2000. African Studies Quarterly 6, 3 Winter 2002.
The Africans in Australia: Expectations and Shattered Dreams by Lawrence T. Udo-Ekpo, Adelaide: Seaview Press, 1999. African Studies Review and Newsletter, December 2000.
Why History Matters: Life and Thought by Gerda Lerner, New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Australian Feminist Studies 13, 28 (1998): 375-376.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Igbo Political Economy: Historical Perspectives, paper presented at the Third International Conference on Igbo Studies, Howard University, April 1-2, 2005.
Conflict and compromise: the Christian missions and new formations in colonial Nigeria Paper presented at the European Conference on African Studies, SOAS, June 29 to July 3 2005.
Contested terrains: cities and ethnic politics in Nigeria, Paper presented at the European Conference on African Studies, SOAS, June 29 to July 3 2005.
Shared Inheritance: Igbo Identity and Transformation in the Atlantic Diaspora. Paper presented at the 119th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Seattle, Washington State Convention Center, Sheraton Seattle, Westin Seattle, January 6–- 9, 2005.
African Agency, Trade and Abolition of Slavery in the Bight of Biafra and its Hinterland. Paper presented at the 47/37th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association and the Canadian Association of African Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 11 –- 14, 2004.
Gender, Palm Oil Trade, and Societies of the Lower Niger Basin in the Post-Abolition Era. Paper presented at Nineteenth Century Post-abolition Commerce and the Communities of the Lower Niger Basin (Nigeria), Imo State University, June 11-12, 2004.
Urban Food Supply and Vulnerability in Nigeria during the Second World War African. Paper presented at Urban Spaces: History and Culture Conference, University of Texas at Austin, 28-30 March 2003.
The Intoxicated Native: "Illicit" Gin Prohibition and Control in Colonial Nigeria. Paper presented at Drugs and Empires: Narcotics, History and Modern Colonialism, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, 10-11 April 2003.
Yam is King! But Cassava is the Mother of all Crops: Farming, Culture and Identity in the 20th Century Igbo Society. Paper Presented at the International Conference on Igbo Studies: A Tribute to Simon Ottenberg, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 4-5, April, 2003
The Second World War and Food Crisis in Colonial Eastern Nigeria. Paper presented at the 2002 Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of African Studies, University of Toronto May 29 to 1 June 2002.
Engendering Nigerian Agricultural Development: Historical Perspectives.” Presented at the Conference on Nigeria in the 20th century, University of Texas at Austin, March 29-31 2002.
African Cultures in the Atlantic Diaspora: The Case of the Igbo of the Biafra Hinterland. Presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Houston, Texas, 15-18 November 2001.
Panel Chair and Discussant at the 44th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association titled: Africa and the African Diaspora: Past, Present, and Future. Houston, Texas, November 15-18, 2001.
Public Policy, Agricultural Sustainability and Agricultural Crisis in Historical Perspective: Eastern Nigeria 1960-1970.” Canadian Association of African Studies Conference, Quebec City, May 2001.
The Second World War, Colonial Agrarian Policy and Food Production in Eastern Nigeria, 1938-1945. Paper presented at the 23rd Annual Conference of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific, Adelaide, 13-15 July 2000.
The Historiography of the Commercial Transition from Slave Trade to 'Legitimate Trade': The Case of the Biafra Hinterland. 1999 Conference of the Canadian Association of African Studies, Université Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, June 4 - 7, 1999.
Agricultural Sustainability and African Agricultural Crisis: Historical Perspective. Paper presented at the 22nd Annual Conference of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific. Perth, University of Western Australia, November 26-28 1999.
Widowhood, Gender Ideology and Inheritance among the Igbo of Southeastern Nigeria. Paper presented at the 41st Annual Conference of the African Studies Association (North America): African Encounters with the 20th century, Chicago, 28 October-1 November 1998.
Colonialism, Gender Ideology and the 1929 Women's Revolt in Eastern Nigeria: An Historical Analysis. Paper presented at the 1998 Annual Conference of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific, La Trobe University, Melbourne, June 1998.
Agricultural Crisis, Impoverishment and Gender in Rural Africa: A Preliminary Investigation. Paper presented at the 1997 Annual Conference of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific, Australia National University, Canberra, September 1997.
Disadvantage and Privileged: Widows Among the Igbo of Southeastern Nigeria. Paper Presented at the Third Carlton Conference on the History of the Family, Carlton University, Ottawa, 14-19 May, 1997.
The Transition from Slave trade to Palm oil trade in the Biafran Hinterland: Implications for Gender Relations. Paper presented at the conference, West African and the Americas: Repercussions of the Slave Trade, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, 19-23 February 1997.