Mary Dillard (Sarah Lawrence University, Bronxville, New York)

Submitted:  Sat., 20 September 2003


Mary Dillard
Assistant Professor of African History
Global Studies
Sarah Lawrence University
One Mead Way
Bronxville, New York  10708  USA

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Research and teaching interests:
African history ; history of education in Ghana and West Africa ; African 
American history.

Education:
Ph.D., 2001, University of California, Los Angeles ; Ph.D. thesis: "Testing 
freedom: a history of the West African Examinations Council, 1952-1979."
M.A., 1995, University of California, Los Angeles
B.A., 1990, Stanford University, Stanford, California


Selected publications:

"Objectivity and opportunism: the social power of mental measurement in 
Anglophone West Africa," Ufahamu: the journal of the African Activist 
Association, XXIV, 1, Winter 1996, pp. 22-41/