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Allen F Isaacman

Allen Isaacman

612-624-4320
Intrdiscp Ctr Stdy Global Chng Room 537 HellerH

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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