Barbara M. Cooper (Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey)

Submitted: Tues, 23 October 2007


Barbara M. Cooper
Associate Professor of History
Director, Center for African Studies
202 Beck Hall
99 Avenue E
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Piscataway, New Jersey  08854-8045  USA

phone:   (732) 445-1194
fax:     (732) 445-6637
e-mail:  bacooper@rci.rutgers.edu



Selected publications:

2006   Evangelical Christians in the Muslim sahel. African systems of 
thought.  Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
***Winner of the 2007 Melville J. Herskovits Award 
from the African Studies Association of the United States.

2001  "The Strength in the Song: Muslim Personhood, Audible Capital and
Hausa Women's Performance of the Hajj," in Gendered Modernities:
Ethnographic Perspectives, edited by Dorothy Hodgson, Palgrave.
pp. 79-104.

2001  "The Politics of Difference and Women's Associations in Niger: Of 
Prostitute, the Public, and Politics,"in "Wicked" Women and
Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa, edited by Sheryl McCurdy and  
Dorothy Hodgson, Heinemann: pp. 255-273.

2000  "Ferdinand Oyono's Houseboy: Intimate Colonialism and the Arts of 
Resistance," in African Novels in the Classroom, edited by Jean 
Hay, Heinemann, pp. 229-240.

1998  "Gender and Religion in Hausaland: Variations in Islamic Practice 
in Niger and Nigeria," in Diversity Within Unity: Gender Dynamics 
and Change in Muslim Societies, edited by Herbert Bodman and Nayereh 
Tohidi, Lynne Rienner, pp. 21-37.

1998  "Niger: Peoples and Cultures" in Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan 
Africa, edited by John Middleton et al.  Charles Scribner's Sons 
Reference Books, 1998, vol. 3, pp. 300-1.

1997 Marriage in Maradi : gender and culture in a Hausa society in Niger, 
1900-1989.  Social history of Africa.  Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann;
Oxford : J. Currey, c1997.

1997  "Gender, Movement, and History: Social and Spatial Transformations 
in 20th Century Maradi, Niger," in Environment and Planning 
Development: Society and Space, 15 (1997): 195-221.  [ French edition: 
<< Le genre sexuel, le mouvement et l'histoire :transformations sociales 
spatiales au XXè siècle à Maradi au Niger >>, 
translated by Denise Ganderton and reprinted in Géographies 
Anglo-Saxonnes: Tendances contemporaines, edited by 
Jean-François Staszak et al, Berlin, 2001, 80-94.]