David Lee Schoenbrun (Northwestern University)

Submitted: Mon, 20 September 1999


David Schoenbrun
Associate Professor
Department of History
Northwestern University
1881 Sheridan Road
Evanston, Illinois  60208-2220 USA

phone:  1-847-491-7278
fax:    1-847-467-1393
e-mail: dls@nwu.edu



Activities:

David Schoenbrun teaches courses in early African history (earliest times
to the 18th century), specializing in the Eastern and Central African
pasts. He works with environmental, archaeological, linguistic,
ethnographic, and oral sources.

Current projects include a creative synthesis of Ancient African history
(1000 BCE to 1000 CE); a history of political culture in the Great Lakes
region (16th Century CE to 19th Century CE); a historical novel about
historical memory (racial, kinesthetic, and linguistic) and geographic
consciousness in Southern, Coastal Eastern, Northern, and Sudanic Western
Africa from the late 13th to the later 14th Century CE.

Recent publications:

"An Intellectual History of Power: Usable Pasts from the Great Lakes
Region," in G. Pwiti and R. Soper (eds.) Aspects of African
Archaeology: Papers from the 10th Congress of the Pan African Association
for Prehistory and Related Studies. (Harare: University of Zimbabwe
Publications, 1996), 693-702.

The Historical Reconstruction of Great Lakes Bantu Cultural Vocabulary:
Etymologies and Distributions. (Cologne: Rudiger Koeppe Press, 1997).

A Green Place, A Good Place: Agrarian Change, Gender, and Social
Identity in the Great Lakes Region to the 15th Century. (Portsmouth:
Heinemann, 1998; Kampala: Fountain Publishers, 1998).

"Knowing Africa: A Review Essay on the 'Encyclopedia of African South of
the Sahara'," for the African Studies Review.