History Department
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Education | Academic Employment | Teaching Experience
Languages | Memberships | Manuscripts and Grant Application Reviews
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in African History
Minor Fields: Comparative Slavery; Women's History
Dissertation: " The State and the Peasantry, Agricultural Policy, Agricultural Crisis and Sustainability in the Igbo Region of Southeastern Nigeria, 1900-1995."
Adelaide
University, Adelaide, Australia, (ABD), 1998.
Ph.D. in Gender Studies Thesis: "The Genuine Farmer: Gender and
the Dynamics of Agricultural Change in Eastern Nigeria, 1900-1970."
University
of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, 1996
M.Phil in History
Areas of Concentration: African Women's History
Thesis: "Widowhood among the Igbo of Eastern Nigeria."”
University
of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, 1994
MA in Education
University
of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria Department of History, 1991
BA (Hons.) First Class in History
The
Kaduna Polytechnic, Kaduna, Nigeria, 1989
National Diploma, Printing Technology
Alvan
Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, Nigeria, 1985
Associate Degree in History/Political Science
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor - African History, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, 2004
Assistant Professor - African History, Central Michigan University, MI, 2002-2004
Teaching Fellow - African History, Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York, 2001-2002
Instructor - African History, University of Toronto at Scarborough, 2001
Visiting Scholar - Imo State University, Nigeria, 1999-2000, summer 2004.
Teaching Assistant - African History/African Studies, University of Toronto, 1997- 2000
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University
of Toronto
The World Outside Europe, 1450 to present
Modern Africa, 1800-present
Hartwick
College
African History to 1800
African History Since 1800
Gender, Nationalisms, and Imperialisms in History.
Central
Michigan University (2002)
HST 176: The African Experience (2 Sections)
HST 377: West Africa
HST 378: South Africa
HST 690: Directed Reading (Religion, Ideology, and Nationalism in
Nigeria)
(Fall
2003)
HST 176: The African Experience
HST 392: Perspectives on Non-Western History
HST 590: Directed Reading (Colonial Africa, 1900-1960)
HST 690C: Directed Reading (Colonial Africa: Social and Economic
Development)
Comparative Slavery
Rowan
University
World History since 1500
Race and History in South African History
Historical Methods
Modern Africa
Igbo
- native language;
French - read with basic competence
English - speak fluently and read/write with high
proficiency
Director, Sustainable Agriculture Research Center, Owerri, Imo State Nigeria.
Member, International Social Science Council- Comparative Research Program on Poverty (CROP)-
Member, American Historical Association
Member, African Studies Association (North America)-
Member, Canadian Association of African Studies-
Member, African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific-
Member, Igbo Studies Association
Member, Advisory Committee, African American Studies Program, Rowan University, New Jersey.
Member, Phi Alpha Theta (History Honor Society)
Member, Phi Beta Delta, (The Honor Society for International Scholars)
MANUSCRIPTS AND GRANT APPLICATION REVIEWS
Member Editorial Board, Lexington Books - After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France Series
Member editorial Board of WOREC: Journal of Gender Studies, Imo State University, Owerri, Nigeria