Makhete Fall (West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia)

Submitted: Mon, 11 Jan 2010


Kiva Makhete Fall
History Instructor and Ph.D. Candidate
West Virginia University

Mailing address:
Department of History and Africana Studies 
West Virginia University
51 Falling Run Road 
Morgantown, West Virginia  26505  USA

phone:  304-293-2421, ext 5244 (office)
        304-685-4349
e-mail: kivamola@yahoo.com
        mfall@mix.wvu.edu


I am currently Africana/Diasporic Studies/History Instructor at West Virginia
University.  My doctoral research is on: "Settlers' political demands in 
East Africa 1895 to 1914."

Education:
- Baccalaureate in General Education in Senegal under French Educational 
System, International Studies
- B.A., Spanish, French and International Studies (Summer 2002), 
University of Arkansas in Little Rock
-Certificate in Training Ministry from Arkansas Baptist Biblical School, 
Little Rock, Arkansas
-Mixology Certification 2005
-M.A., Foreign Languages at West Virginia University, 2004
-M.A., History, 2006
- A.B.D. Completed  fields: Modern African History, World History, Latin 
America and New Imperialism.  


Teaching Experience: 
- Africana/Diasporic Studies Instructor 2006 to now at West Virginia 
University
- Teaching Assistant, Spanish and Culture, Department of Foreign 
Languages, West Virginia University, (2002 and 2004)
- Teaching Assistant, French Language and Culture, Department of Foreign 
Languages, West Virginia University, (2003)
- African Music and Culture Instructor, Africa's Child In Little Rock 
Arkansas (2000- 2002)
- Spanish Adjunct Faculty, Washington and Jefferson College, Pennsylvania 
(2005) 
- World History Instructor Summer 2006 at West Virginia University
- African American History Instructor Fairmont University Summer 2006
- Assistant Coordinator of Professor Robert Maxon director of the Africana 
Studies Program at West Virginia University
- Guess Lecturer Bethune Cookman University, Daytona, Florida 2008


Teaching Fields:
- History of Africa
- Diasporic Studies / The Americas from Columbus to Castro 
- African American Studies from slavery to freedom 
- British Empire / New Imperialism
- Latin American Studies
- World History from 1500 to present
- French / Spanish


Research Fields:
- Patterns of Sub-Saharan-European Immigration 
- Neo-Africanity in the New World
- African Traditional Religions in the Americas: Research in Salvador de 
Bahia, Brazil and Haiti
- Colonial Injustice in British East Africa
- French Education and Assimilation in West Africa
- Dependency Theory and Underdevelopment in Africa
- The Extend of the Columbian Exchange


Academic Awards:
- French Honor Society, Pi Delta Phi Spring 2002
- National Hispanic Collegiate Society, Sigma Delta Pi Spring 2001


Languages: 
Fluent in Wolof, Malinke, French, Spanish, English and Portuguese ;
reading knowledge in Russian and Italian