2010 Fall History Conference
Presenters
Patrick Manning joins us from the University of Pittsburgh where he is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History specializing in world history with an emphasis on African history. He has trained as a specialist in the economic history of Africa and has explored demographic, social and cultural patterns in Africa and the African diaspora. Dr. Manning's accomplishments include more than ten major publications. The African Diaspora: A History through Culture, Global Practice in World History: Advance Worldwide, World History: Global and Local Interaction, Migration in World History, Navigating the World History: Historians Create a Global Past, and Migration in Modern World History are among his recent titles. Currently, he is President of the World History Network, Inc., a nonprofit corporation fostering research in world history. Included in his presentation will be his current research addressing global historiography, migration in world history, the African Diaspora, and the demography of African slavery.
Dr. John Donoghue, a native Pennsylvanian and graduate of Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA, is an assistant professor of history at Loyola University Chicago. He specializes in early American and Atlantic World History. Included in his research interest are the English Revolution; slavery in the early modern and twenty-first century global economies; the origin of abolitionism in the British Empire; Republicanism; and American exceptionalism. Donoghue has published articles on slave labor from the seventeenth century comparing it to human trafficking in today's global economy. Professor Donoghue has published several books. In his most recent book, Fire Under the Ashes: An Atlantic History of the English Revolution, Donoghue puts forth the theory that there were attempts to end slavery in the colonies at the very time that slavery was taking hold. Following this theory the rise of abolitionism actually started in the seventeenth century.
Dr. Edda Fields-Black, an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, specializes in pre-colonial and West African history. She serves as faculty advisor for Carnegie Mellon's African and African American Studies and teaches courses in African history from the early pre-colonial to the neo-colonial period, slavery, and freedom in Africa and the New World. Fields- Black specializes in pre-colonial African history and West African history which extended her research interest into the African Diaspora. This research has taken Dr. Fields-Black to coastal Guinea, Sierra Leone, South Carolina and Georgia to uncover the history of African rice farmers and rice cultures. This important study is the first to apply the comparative method of historical linguistics to the Atlantic languages of West Africa's coast. Dr. Fields-Black's first publication Deep Roots is a chronicle of the development of tidal rice-growing technology of the West African Rice Coast to South Carolina and Georgia areas where the majority of the captives disembarked.
Break-out Sessions
To be anounced