Jeremy G. Prestholdt (Northwestern University)

Submitted: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 23:56:48 -0800


Jeremy G. Prestholdt    
Graduate Student in African History     
Northwestern University

Mail address:
6554 North Glenwood #2
Chicago, Illinois  60626   USA

Department of History
Northwestern University
Harris Hall, Room 106
Evanston, Illinois  60208  USA

phone:   312-381-0452
e-mail:  j-prestholdt@nwu.edu

Research and teaching interests:
16th-18th century Swahili social history
History of early modern western Indian Ocean
Slave trade and slavery in the western Indian Ocean/southern Atlantic
Material culture history
Luso-phone African studies

Current research:
Sixteenth century Swahili production and consumption of material culture.
Social and material consequences of commercial and demographic shifts in
16th-17th century Swahili city-states.