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AFRICAN HISTORY PhDs:

YEAR

NAME

ADVISOR

POSITION

2008 Naaborko Sackeyfio
Paul Bjerk
Bernault
Spear
Dartmouth
2006

Dior Konate
Daniel Magaziner
Gary Marquardt
Ryan Ronnenberg

Bernault
Spear
Spear
Spear

South Carolina State
Cornell
Virginia Commonwealth
Kennesaw State

2005

Ousman Kobo
Stephen Volz
 

Bernault
Spear

Ohio State
Kenyon

2004

Meredith Terretta
 

Bernault

Ottawa

2003

Jeremiah Kitunda
Sean Hanretta
Robert Houle
 

Spear
Spear
Spear

Appalachian State
Stanford
Fairleigh Dickenson

2000

Susan O’Brien
 

Spear

Florida

1998

Erick Mann
 

Spear

Oakton CC

1997

Kathleen Smythe
 

Spear

Xavier (Ohio)

1996

Cathy Skidmore-Hess
 

Vansina

Georgia Southern

1995

David Leaver
 

Vansina

Georgia Southwestern

1994

Carolyn K Adenaike
Chris Bierworth
 

Vansina
Green

 
Murray State

1993

Tefetso Mothibe
Joe Lunn 

Vansina
Vansina

Lesotho
Michigan/Flynt

1992

Nancy Rose Hunt
Pier Larson
Paul Landau 

Vansina
Vansina
Vansina

Michigan
Johns Hopkins
Maryland
 

1991

Michele Wagner
 

Vansina

Minnesota

1989

Kenneth Curtis
Renee Tantala 

Vansina
Feierman

California State—Long Beach

1988

Lynda Day
Jonathon Glassman
Tharcisse Nsabimana
 

Feierman
Feierman
Vansina

CUNY—Brooklyn
Northwestern
Burundi

1987

Joyce Kirk
Elizabeth Schmidt
 

Feierman
Feierman

Wisconsin—Milwaukee
Loyola

1986

Keletso Atkins
Elizabeth Eldridge
Susan Grabler
James Giblin
 

Feierman
Vansina
Vansina
Feierman

Minnesota
MSU (emeritus)
Los Angeles CC
Iowa   

1985

J.S. Mohlamme
                       

Vansina

VISTA, South Africa

1984

Carol Dickerman
Bryant Shaw  

Feierman
Vansina

Michigan (admin)
USAF
 

1983

David Anthony
 

Feierman

UC—Santa Cruz

1982

Bakonzi Agayo
Marc Dawson
Janet Ewald
 

Vansina
Feierman
Brown

Zaire
Western New England
Duke

1981

Ismail Abdalla
Mwelwa Musambachime
Kingsley Ogedengbe

Feierman
Vansina
Vansina

William & Mary
Zambian Ambassador to UN

 

1980              

Jeffrey Peires
 

Feierman

 

1979

John Berntsen
David Newbury 

Feierman
Vansina

State Dept.
Smith
 

1978

Robert Harms
                         

Vansina

Yale

1977

Henry Bucher
Dennis Cordell
Peter Koffsky
Monica Schuler          
 

Vansina
Vansina
Feierman
Brown

Austin
Southern Methodist
 
Wayne State

1976

 

                       

Randall Packard
David Sandgren
Robert Schecter       
Tom Shick

Feierman
Feierman
Vansina
Vansina

Johns Hopkins
Concordia
 
(deceased)

1975

Adell Patton
Kings Phiri
Richard Sigwalt

Brown
Feierman
Vansina

Missouri
Malawi

 

1974

Stephen Baier
James Johnson
Claire Robertson
Philip Shea
Thomas Spear
Shirin Walji    
 

Curtin
Curtin
Feierman
Vansina
Feierman
Feierman


Minnesota (admin)
Ohio State
(
deceased)
Wisconsin (emeritus)
Nairobi

1973

Iris Berger
Lee Cassanelli
Jeffrey Fadiman
David Henige
James Hubbard
Paul Irwin
Joseph Lauer
Paul Lovejoy
 

Vansina
Feierman
Vansina
Vansina
Curtin
Curtin
Vansina
Curtin

SUNY—Albany
Pennsylvania
San Jose State
Wisconsin (library)

Stanford (admin) (retired)
Michigan State (library)
York (emeritus)

1972

Babatunde Agiri
James Brown
M. Jean Hay  
Allen Howard
Joseph Miller
Lucy Quimby 
Thomas Tlou 
John Works
 

Vansina
Curtin
Curtin
Curtin
Vansina
Vansina
Vansina
Curtin

Norfork
South Carolina
Boston (emeritus)
Rutgers
Virginia
Psychology
Botswana
Missouri (emeritus)

1971

Fred Berg
Joseph Corry
Myron Echenberg
Hassan Mohamed   
 

Curtin
Curtin
Curtin
Vansina

Colgate (emeritus)
Wisconsin (retired) (admin)
McGill (emeritus)
Khartoum

1970

Allen Isaacman

Vansina

Minnesota

1969

William Brown
Victoria Coifman
John Davidson
R. Hunt Davis
Ross Dunn
Patrick Manning
Leo Spitzer   
 

Curtin
Vansina
Vansina
Curtin
Curtin
Curtin
Curtin

Wisconsin (deceased)
Minnesota
Aberystwith (deceased)
Florida (emeritus)
San Diego State
Pittsburg
Dartmouth

1968

Bruce Fetter
J. Forbes Munro

Vansina
Vansina

Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Glasgow (emeritus)

1967

Raymond Kent

Curtin 

Berkeley (emeritus)

1966

E.J. Alagoa
Andrew Roberts
John Rowe

Vansina
Vansina
Curtin

Port Harcourt
SOAS (emeritus)
Northwestern (emeritus)
 

1964

Julian Witherell

Curtin 

Library of Congress(retired)

1963

John William

Curtin

SUNY—Stony Brook (emeritus)

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