Jay Spaulding (Kean University, Union, New Jersey)

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Jay Spaulding
Professor of History
Department of History
Kean University
Morris Avenue
Union, New Jersey  07083  USA


phone:   908-527-2124 (office)
fax:     908-527-2005
e-mail:  jspauldi@cougar.kean.edu



Most of my writing concerns Northeast Africa.  I have special interests in
the precolonial period and in historical methodologies appropriate to
diverse African contexts.  Recent publications include: 

"Individual and Communal Forms of Land Tenure on Echo Island, 1820-1901,"
Northeast African Studies II, 2 (1995), 115-138.

"Medieval Christian Nubia and the slamic World: A Reconsideration of the
Baqt Treaty," International Journal of African Historical Studies
XXVIII, 3 (1995), 577-594.

"Sex, Bondage and the Market: The Emergence of Prostitution in the
Northern Sudan, 1750-1950," (with Stephanie Beswick), Journal of the
History of Sexuality V, 4 (1995), 512-534.

Co-author, with Lidwien Kapteijns:
_An Islamic Alliance: `Ali Dinar and the Sanusiyya, 1898-1916_. 
Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1994.

Co-editor, with Stephanie Beswick:
_White Nile, black blood: war, leadership, and ethnicity from Khartoum to
Kampala_.  Lawrenceville, NJ : Red Sea Press, c2000.