Judith A. Byfield (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York)

Submitted: Sat, 16 August 2008


Judith A. Byfield
Associate Professor
Africana Studies & Research Center
Cornell University
310 Triphammer Road
Ithaca, New York  14850  USA

e-mail: jab632@cornell.edu



My research is primarily on women's social and economic history in Africa 
and the Caribbean. 

I teach general survey courses on Africa and the Caribbean as well as 
upper level courses on Nationalism and Decolonization in Africa, Women and 
the State in Africa, and Textile Production and Social Use in Africa.

My current project is "The Great Upheaval: The Egba Women's Tax Revolt: 
Gender and Nationalist Politics in Nigeria, 1945-1954."

Currently, I am on the editorial board of the Journal of African 
History and the Indiana University Press series "Blacks in the Diaspora." 

Publications include:

The bluest hands: a social and economic history of women dyers in 
Abeokuta (Nigeria), 1890-1940. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann; Oxford: 
James Currey, c2002. (263 p.)