Ruth Ginio (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)

Submitted: Mon, 13 May 2002 19:54:04 +0200


Dr. Ruth Ginio
Department of African History
Faculty of Humanities 
Hebrew University
Mount Scopus
Jerusalem 91905
Israel
 
phone:  972-2-5882318
fax:    972-2-5828076
e-mail: msruti@mscc.huji.ac.il



I teach courses on colonialism with an emphasis on Africa. My main areas 
of research are: 

1. The Vichy period in French West Africa
2. The Native legal system in FWA
3. French colonial discourse on African witchcraft


Publications:

"The Jews of French West Africa under Vichy". Pe'amim, 81 (2000), 56-67
[in Hebrew]

"Marshal Petain Spoke to Schoolchildren - Vichy Propaganda in French West 
Africa, 1940-1943". International Journal of African Historical Studies, 
33:2 (2000), 291-312.

"French Colonial Reading of Ethnographic Research - The Case of the 
'Desertion' of the Abron King and Its Aftermath". Cahiers d'Etudes 
africaines, no. 166, June, 2002.

"Les enfants africains de la 'Révolution nationale' - La politique 
vichyssoise de l'enfance et de la jeunesse dans les colonies de l'AOF 
(1940-1943)". Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine. [forthcoming].

"French West and Equatorial Africa during World War II".
Encyclopedia of African History (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001) [forthcoming].