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Allen Isaacman

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Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • agrarian change
  • Central and Southern Africa
  • comparative history
  • peasants
  • rural protest
  • slavery and maroon communities
  • social history of Mozambique
  • the agency of ordinary people
  • the nature of African resistance to European colonial domination
  • oral history
  • East Africa and problems in southern Africa
  • racial problems in southern Africa

Educational Background

  • MA, PhD: University of Wisconsin, Madison.
  • BA: City College of New York.

Publications

  • Toward a Social and Environmental History of the Building of Cahora Bassa Dam. Isaacman, Allen F, 2000.
  • Historical Amnesia, or the Logic of Capital Accumulation: Cotton Production in Colonial and Post Colonial Mozambique. Isaacman, Allen F, 1997.
  • Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, Work and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961. Isaacman, Allen F, Heinemann, 1996.

Professional Activities

  • Director, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change/MacArthur Program

Awards

  • College of Liberal Arts Graduate/Professor Teaching Award, University of Minnesota, 1999
  • College of Liberal Arts Scholars of the College, University of Minnesota, 1996
  • College of Liberal Arts Teaching Award, University of Minnesota, 1987
  • Fulbright Scholar Award
  • MacArthur Foundation Grant
  • Regents' Professor, 2001

Courses Taught

  • Hist 5931 - Topics in Comparative Third World History: Peasants
  • Hist 5932 - African Historiography and Methodology
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Featured Faculty

  • Gary Cohen Awarded Austrian Medal of Honor

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    Gary Cohen has been awarded the Austrian Medal of Honor (Verdienstkreuz) for Science and Arts, First Class. The ceremony was held at the Austrian Embassy in Washington. He was presented the award by Dr. Christian Prosl, the Austrian Ambassador to the United States.

    Congratulations to Gary! This is a much-deserved recognition of Gary's scholarship on the Habsburg Empire and his leadership of the Center for Austrian Studies.

    November 17th, 2009

  • Regina Kunzel, Lambda Literary Award Recipient

    Regina Kunzel has been awarded the Lambda Literary Award in the category of LGBT Studies for her book Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality. Congratulations Regina.

     June 5th, 2009

  • Donna Gabaccia, Fesler-Lampert Chair

    Tthe Graduate School has appointed Donna Gabaccia to the Fesler-Lampert Chair in Public Humanities for 2009-2010.

     June 5th, 2009

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