Sandra E. Greene (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York)

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Dr. Sandra E. Greene
Associate Professor
Department of History
450 Mc Graw Hall
Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY  14853

phone:   607-255-4124
fax:     607-255-0469
e-mail:  seg6@cornell.edu
 

Activities:

--President of the African Studies Association, 1997-98

--Board Member, Ubuntu 2000--African Festival of the Arts, 1998-2002

--Board Member, National Summit on Africa, 1998-2000

--Editorial Board Member, Cambridge University Press "Perspectives on the
African Past" series

--Editorial Board Member, International Journal of African Historical
Studies, 1998-2003


Selected publications:

Forthcoming.  "Symbols and social activism: an agenda for African studies
and the ASA for the coming 21st century,"  African studies review.

Forthcoming.  "In the mix: women and ethnic identities among the Anlo
Ewe," in _Ethnicity in Ghana_.  Ed. by Paul Nugent and Carola Lenz. 
Macmillan Press. 

Forthcoming.  "The question of cultural zones in the era of the Atlantic
slave trade:  exploring the Yoruba connection among the Anlo-Ewe," in
_Papers of the UNESCO Slave Route Project_.  Ed. by Paul Lovejoy and Robin
Law.  Cassell Publishers, London.

1997   "Sacred terrain: religion, politics and place in the history of
Anloga (Ghana),"  International journal of African historical studies, 30,
1.

1997   "The individual as stranger in 19th century Anlo: the politics of
identity and social advancement in precolonial West Africa," in _The cloth
of many colored silks: essays in honor of Ivor Wilks."  Ed. by John
Hunwick and Nancy Lawler.  Northwestern University Press, Evanston.

1997   "Crossing boundaries/changing identities: the descendants of female
slaves and male strangers in nineteenth and twentieth century Anlo," in
_Gendered encounters: challenging cultural boundaries and social
hierarchies in Africa_.  Ed. by Maria Grosz-Ngate and Omari H. Kokole.
Routledge, London.	

1996   _Gender, ethnicity and social change on the Upper Slave Coast: a
history of the Anlo-Ewe_. Social history in Africa series.  Heinemann
Books, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. 

1996   "Religion, history and the supreme gods of Africa: a contribution
to the debate,"  Journal of religion in Africa, XXVI, 2.

1995   "Women, the family and the commercialization of agriculture in 19th
and 20th century Anlo," in  _Introduction to Women's studies, with special
reference to Ghana: selected readings_.  Ed. by Mansah Prah.  Books of
Africa.  Schriesheim, Germany.

1994   "From whence they came: a note on the influence of West African
ethnic and gender relations on the organizational character of the 1733
St. John Slave Rebellion," in _The Danish slave trade and its abolition_.
Ed. by George Tyson and Arnold Highfield.  Virgin Islands Humanities
Center.