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Carpenter, Nate
Advisor:Benjamin Lawrance
Field:Africa
Research Regions:
Guinea (Futa Jallon), Senegal, Guinea Bissau, The Gambia

Research Interests:
Nineteenth-century Upper Guinea, African social history, African environmental history, Political ecology, African borderlands

Dissertation Title:
Politics, Economy, and Ecology in Northwestern Guinea, 1850-1930

Selected Awards:
Fulbright IIE (2009-2010)
All-UC Economic History Group, Graduate Research Grant (2009)
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (2006, 2008)

Selected Papers:
“The Biaye have never been part of Alpha Yaya's territory”: Mapping Bodies and Borders in Nineteenth-Century West Africa” (to be presented at the annual meeting of the African Borderlands Research Network, Johannesburg, South Africa, October 10-14, 2009).
“The Role of Food and Family in Zimbabwe's Liberation War” (presented at the Tasting Histories Conference, Davis, CA, February 27-29, 2009).
“African Boundaries and Colonial Borders: Northwestern Guinea in the Late Nineteenth Century” (presented at the annual meeting of the African Studies Association, Chicago, November 13-16, 2008).

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Filippello, Marcus
Advisor:Benjamin Lawrance
Field:Africa
Awards: Received Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to study Yoruba at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria (Summer 2005)

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Jallow, Baba
Advisor:Benjamin Lawrance
Field:Africa

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Kelly, Chau
Advisor:Cynthia Brantley
Field:Africa
Topic:Colonial medicine and health in Tanzania.

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Ly, Aliou
Advisor:Benjamin Lawrance
Field:Africa

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Tague, Joanna
Advisor:Beverly Bossler
Field:Africa
Topic:As an African historian, I am interested in the various ways East Africans construct national identities. I focus on Tanzania and question the extent of a cohesive national identity, the influence that migrating populations from Zanzibar and Rwanda (because of the genocide) exert on Tanzania.

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