Jonathon Glassman (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois)
Submitted: Tues 3 March 1998
Jonathon Glassman
Associate professor
Department of History
Northwestern University
1881 Sheridan Road
Evanston, Illinois 60208-2220 USA
phone: 847-491-3406
fax: 847-267-1393
e-mail: j-glassman@nwu.edu
Teaching and research interests:
Modern East African history (19th and 20th centuries); comparative
slavery; popular consciousness.
Current research:
Race and nationalism in colonial Zanzibar.
Publications:
*Feasts and Riot: Revelry, Rebellion and Popular Consciousness on the
Swahili Coast, 1856-1888* (Heinemann/James Currey, 1995); "No words of
their own," In *Slavery and Abolition* 16:1 (1995); "The bondsman's new
clothes: the contradictory consciousness of slave resistance on the
Swahili coast," In *Journal of African History* 32 (1991).