Janet J. Ewald (Duke University, Durham, North Carolina)

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Janet J. Ewald
Associate Professor
Department of History
226 Carr Building
P.O. Box 90719
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina  27708-0719  USA

phone:   919-684-4280
fax:     919-681-7670
e-mail:  jewald@acpub.duke.edu

Teaching:  History of Africa;  Atlantic History;  Indian Ocean History; 
Third World and the West. 

Current Research:  Port and Maritime Labor in the Nineteenth-Century
Western Indian Ocean

Publications:  Soldiers, Traders, and Slaves:  State Formation and
Economic Transformation in the Upper Nile Valley, 1700-1885.  Madison,
1990. 

Articles on the methodology of field work oral narratives;  the slave
trade in east Africa and the Nile valley;  Hadhrami diaspora in the Red
Sea and Indian Ocean.