Dennis Laumann (The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee)

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Dennis Laumann
Associate Professor
Department of History
The University of Memphis,
Memphis, Tennessee  38152-3450  USA


phone:    901-678-3392
fax:      901-678-2720
e-mail:   dlaumann@memphis.edu

Web site: https://umdrive.memphis.edu/dlaumann/public/home.html



Dennis Laumann received his PhD in 1999 from the University of California, 
Los Angeles (UCLA). He is a former Fulbright Scholar to Ghana and Research 
Affiliate of the University of Ghana. He currently serves as Chair of the 
Ghana Studies Council
(http://people.tamu.edu/~yarak/gsc.html).

At the University of Memphis, he teaches courses in African history, world 
history, and Marxism and directs the university's Ghana Study Abroad 
Program (http://cas.memphis.edu/isc/aaas/ghana/). His research interests 
include the history of Ghana, German Togoland, oral history, and Marxism. 

He is currently working on a project exploring links between the Communist 
Party USA and African liberation movements


Selected publications

*   Remembering the Germans in Ghana (Peter Lang Publishing, in press)

*   "Che Guevara's Visit to Ghana," Transactions of the Historical Society 
of Ghana, New Series No. 9 (2005), 61-74

*  "The History of the Ewe of Togo and Benin from Pre-Colonial Times," in 
The Ewe of Togo and Benin, edited by Benjamin Lawrence (Woeli Publishing, 
2005), 14-28

*   "Togo: Colonial Period: German Rule" and "Aja-Speaking Peoples: Aja, 
Fon, and Ewe, 17th & 18th Centuries," Encyclopedia of African History, 
edited by Kevin Shillington (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers,  2005)

*   "A Historiography of German Togoland, or the Rise and Fall of a 'Model 
Colony,'" History in Africa 30 (2003), 195-211

*   "Boniface I. Obichere, Pan-Africanism, and African History," Ufahamu 
29, no. 1 (Winter 2001), 11-18

*   "Compradores-in-arms: the Fante Confederation Project, 1868-1871," 
Ufahamu 21:1-2 (Winter/Spring 1993), 120-36