Nemata A.I. Blyden (George Washington University, Washington, DC)

Submitted: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 12:27:25 -0500


Dr. Nemata Blyden
Assistant Professor
Department of History
335 Phillips Hall
George Washington University
Washington, D.C. 20052  USA

phone:   202 994 3318
e-mail:  nemata@gwu.edu



Research interests: African History ; Diaspora studies.

Education: Ph.D.(African history), Yale University, May 1998.


Publications:

West Indians in West Africa, 1808-1880: A diaspora in reverse.
Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2000

"Edward Jones, An African-American in Sierra Leone" in John
Pulis (ed.)  Movin On : Black Loyalists in the Afro-Atlantic World.
(Garland Press, 1999).

"The Search for Anna Erskine: settler women in nineteenth century Liberia"
in Black Women in the Old World and the New.  Edited by Catherine
Higgs, Barbara Moss and Earline Rae Ferguson. Forthcoming.