Andrew F. Clark (University of North Carolina, Wilmington)

Submitted: Tues, December 12, 2006


Andrew F. Clark
Professor of African and Global History
Department of History
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Wilmington, North Carolina  28403   USA

phone:   910-962-3316
fax:     910-962-7011
e-mail:  clarka@uncw.edu


Teaching/research interests: West African history, esp. Senegambia and
Mali in colonial/postcolonial period; social and economic history; slavery
and servility; oral history in West Africa; cultural history. 

Teaching: Courses in African history (incl. early and modern; West and
Southern; Colonial period; African Diaspora; Imperialism; survey courses
in global history since 1500; Islamic societies in Africa.

He has published articles in the Journal of African History, Africa Today, 
Slavery and Abolition, Oral History Review, Journal of Third World 
Studies, Canadian Journal of African Studies and the International Journal 
of African Historical Studies as well has having written chapters in 
several volumes.

Books include:

From frontier to backwater: economy and society in the upper Senegal 
Valley (West Africa), 1850-1920.  Lanham, MD : University Press of 
America, c1999.  (278 p.)

With Lucie Colvin Phillips.  Historical dictionary of Senegal. 
2nd ed.  African historical dictionaries; no. 65.  Metuchen, NJ : 
Scarecrow Press, 1994. (353 p.)