Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
lalindsa@email.unc.edu
B.A. Johns Hopkins University, 1988
M.A. University of Michigan, 1992
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1996
Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests
Lisa Lindsay’s research centers on the social history of West Africa, particularly Nigeria, and on links between Africa and other parts of the world. Although over time her primary focus has moved from gender to slavery, in all of her work she endeavors to understand large-scale processes through human-scale experiences, and to attend to African particularities as well as points of larger comparison and connection. She is currently at work on the contextualized biography of a South Carolina freedman who in the 1850s migrated to modern-day Nigeria, making trans-Atlantic connections that his descendants and their American relatives maintain to this day.
Some Notable Publications
- Working with Gender: Wage Labor and Social Change in Southwestern Nigeria (Heinemann, 2003)
- Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa, co-edited with Stephan Miescher (Heinemann, 2003)
- Captives as Commodities (Prentice Hall, 2008)
Graduate Students Advised by Lisa Lindsay
Courses Offered (as schedules allow)
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