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Jeremy R. Ball <ballj@dickinson.edu> Dickinson College Twentieth-century Angolan economic and labor history. I am currently writing a book on the topic. Oral history is one of my key research methods. In August and November 2008 I am leading a comparative oral history project on the anti-apartheid movement in King William's Town, South Africa, and Mississippi. |
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| List Affiliations: | List Editor for H-Luso-Africa Reviewer for H-Luso-Africa |
| Interests: | African American History / Studies Environmental History / Studies Human Rights Oral History |
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Bio: EDUCATION 1998-2003 UCLA, Los Angeles, California Ph.D. History. Degree awarded June 2003. Dissertation title: “‘The Colossal Lie’: The Sociedade Agrícola do Cassequel and Portuguese Colonial Labor Policy in Angola, 1899-1977.” Dissertation director, Edward A. Alpers. Primary field, West-Central Africa; secondary field, Colonial Brazil. 1996-1998 Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut MA, African Studies, May 1998. 1990-1994 Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts BA, History. TEACHING EXPERIENCE 8/05-Present Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania Assistant Professor of History. Teaching: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid, Ecological History of Africa, The Atlantic Slave Trade, War Crimes, Tribunals, and Truth Commissions, History of African Women, and a two-semester survey History of Africa. PUBLICATIONS “‘I escaped in a coffin’: Remembering Angolan Forced Labor from the 1940s,” Cadernos de Estudos Africanos. N.º 9/10, Julho 2005/Junho 2006, pp. 61-75. “Colonial Labor in Twentieth-Century Angola,” History Compass, 3, 2005. http://www.History-compass.com/viewpoint.asp?section=1&ref=1 “‘At least in those days we had enough to eat’: Colonialism, Independence and the Cold War in Catumbela, Angola, 1974-1977,” in Jeffrey Engel, ed., Local Consequences of the Global Cold War. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2007. “Memórias da Sociedade Agrícola do Cassequel,” BES Actual, N. 24, Agosto/Setembro, 2001. “‘A Time of Clothes’: The Angolan Rubber Boom, 1886-1902,” Ufahamu, Vol. 28, N. 1, Fall 2000, pp. 25-42. The Atlantic Slave Trade, a teaching unit published by the Center for History in the Schools. |
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