HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA | CANADA B3H 4P9 | +1 (902) 494-2011

Philip S. Zachernuk

Office: 1169 McCain Arts & Social Science Building
Office Hours: Wednesdays:  12:30-1:30
Email: philip.zachernuk@dal.ca
Tel: 902-494-3682
902-494-3349 (fax)
Philip S. Zachernuk

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

African History in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially intellectual, social, and slavery history. Also Global History and the history of colonial and post-colonial intellectuals.

PUBLICATIONS
 

Colonial Subjects: An African Intelligentsia and Atlantic Ideas.
University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 2000.

 

"African Intellectuals and the Reconceptualization of Africa," in Misty Bastian and Jane Parpart, eds., Great Ideas for Teaching About Africa (Rienner, Boulder, 1999).

"African History and Imperial Culture in Colonial Nigerian Schools," Africa 68 (1998).

"Of Origins and Colonial Order: Southern Nigerian Historians and the 'Hamitic Hypothesis,' c. 1870-1970," Journal of African History 35 (1994).
 

COURSES OFFERED 2009-2010

HIST 1501 F COMPARATIVE GLOBAL HISTORY 
HIST 4400 F TOPICS IN AFRICAN HISTORY (2009-10 TOPIC:  INDEPENDENCE AND NATIONALISM)
HIST 2425 W AFRICA BEFORE 1900 
HIST 3430 W THE MAKING OF COLONIAL AFRICA, C. 1850-1930