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“Cymone” Fourshey Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of History & International Relations Bucknell University Ccf014@Bucknell.Edu Catherine “Cymone” Fourshey Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of History & International Relations Bucknell University [email protected] EDUCATION 2002 University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D., History Committee: Chris Ehret, Ned Alpers, Marcyliena Morgan, Sondra Hale, & Kevin Terraciano Dissertation: Agriculture, Ecology, Kinship & Gender: A Social & Economic History of Tanzania’s Corridor 500 BC to 1900 AD 1995 University of California, Los Angeles, M.A., History Fields: General Africa, East Africa, West Africa, & Southern Africa 1993 University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., Political Science Thesis Advisor: Victor Wolfenstein Thesis: The Case of Reginald Denny & the LA 4: Political Prisoners? Departmental Highest Honors, College Honors, Cum Laude, & Pi Gamma Mu National Honor Society ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2015-Pres. Associate Professor of History & International Relations, Bucknell University 2007-15 Associate Professor of History with tenure, Department of History, Susquehanna University 2001-07 Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Susquehanna University 2001 Lecturer, Department of History University of Notre Dame ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS 2012-15 Faculty Coordinator of Post-Graduate Opportunities, Susquehanna University Collaborates with academic departments, faculty, & the Career Development Center to support the Provost’s responsibility for ensuring successful student transitions to post-graduate educational & service opportunities. Oversee application process of all prestigious competitive compensated awards. Work with departments on productive strategies to educate students on opportunities from early in academic career. Accomplishments in the first two years include increased applications to all awards & eight students garnering some of the most prestigious awards. 2008-14 Director of International Studies, Susquehanna University Oversaw major & program development. Advised sixty majors in this interdisciplinary program. Guided students to plan study & internships domestically or abroad. Ensured that there were courses within the curriculum for the majors across the relevant disciplines. Conducted all assessment to verify whether goals & outcomes line up. Directed & consulted International Studies Advisory Board to determine when & where changes were beneficial within the requirements for the major. Major achievements include: 1) more than doubled the number of majors & minors from 30 to 63) brought in a more ethnically & nationally diverse group of students who pursued the major; & 3) diversified the areas/tracks of International Studies that students pursued. PUBLICATIONS PROJECTS IN PROGRESS Books Book Manuscript (single authored) Identities in the Shadows: Hospitality among Strangers, Immigrants, & the Established in southwestern Tanzania 500 BCE-1800 CE (In progress expected completion 2018). Book Manuscript (co-authored) A History of Family and Belonging in Eastern and Central Africa 1000-1800 CE (In Progress expected completion 2020). Articles & Book Chapters Article “‘Woe is me that I have no relations’: Poverty & Wealth in Pre-Colonial Southwestern Tanzania among the Nyakyusa & Safwa (In progress/revising). Curriculum Vitæ 1 of 17 Book Chapter “Welcome Home?: Hospitality & Hostility, Transnational & Diasporic Experiences among ‘Bantu Somali’ 1800-2015” in Sub-Saharan African Migrations: Challenges, Failures, & Coping Strategies Yvonne Captain, Papa Sow, & Elina Marmer eds. (Submitted to editors). Encyclopedia Entry “Women in The Gambia,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History (in Progress) submitting January 2018 PROJECTS COMPLETED Books Book Manuscript (co-authored) Bantu Africa Oxford University Press complete edited manuscript submitted December 2015. (Released October 2017). Articles 2016 Article “Lifting the Loincloth: History of Anthropological Spectacles” for Critique of Anthropology (September 2016): 302-338. 2016 Book Chapter “Dismantling Notions of African Women’s Perpetual Subjugation,” in Discoursing Gender, Culture, & Knowledge in Africa & the African Diaspora Toyin Falola, ed. (forthcoming 2017 Routledge). 2015 “Set Alight to Her Husband’s House”: Teaching as Scholarship & Activism in the Gambian Archives Article co-authored with student Holly Belkot, Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies, 38, 3 (2015): 35-62. 2012 “Karibu Stranger, Come Heal Thy Host: Hospitality in Southwestern Tanzania 1000-1900” African Historical Review 44, 2 (2012): 18-54. 2012 “‘The Matter is a Bit Urgent’ – Education of Miss Florence Peters: One Gambian Father’s Petitions to the British Colonial Government 1948-1952” JENdA No 20 (2012): 80-104. 2008 “‘The Remedy For Hunger Is Bending The Back’: Maize And British Agricultural Policy In Southwestern Tanzania 1920-1960” IJAHS, Vol. 41, No. 2 (June 2008): 223-262. Encyclopedia/Dictionary/Blog Entries 2017 Co-authored Blog “When Historians Collaborate, Scholarship Benefits,” AHA Today August 14 http://blog.historians.org/2017/08/when-historians-collaborate-scholarship-benefits/ 2010 Dictionary of African Biography (Oxford University Press, 2011), 2 entries: “Chief Mkwawa” & “Princess of Zanzibar Emily Reute <http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195382075.001.0001/acref- 9780195382075-e-1374?rskey=hpD3uD&result=1> 2009 Encyclopedia of Protest & Revolution: 1500 to Present (Blackwell Publishing, March 2009), 3 entries on “Bishop Abel Muzorewa”, ”Sketchley Samkange”, & “Stanlake John William Thompson Samkange”. <http://www.revolutionprotestencyclopedia.com/public/search?query=muzorewa>. 2004 Consulting Editor, Africa Great Events From History: The Middle Ages. Great Events From History: The Middle Ages two-volume reference work (Salem Press, November 2004). 2004 Great Events From History: The Middle Ages 7 Entries: “Al-Umari (Al-Omari) Writes a History of Africa (African Historiography)”; “Hummay Introduces Islam to Kanem Founds Sefuwa (Saifawa) Dynasty”; “Mai Dunama Dibbalemi Expands Kanem Empire”; “Emergence Mapungubwe (capital of cattle economies of southern Africa)”; “Zirid Dynasty (Converts Tunisia & Eastern Algeria to Sunni Islam)”; “Rise of Kongo Kingdom (Central Africa)”; “Sulama (Mansa Sulayman) revives Malian Power (Resurgence of Mali)”. 2004 Great Events from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476 C.E. (Salem Press, April 2004) 10 Entries “Nilo-Saharan Farmers Spread Cultivation & Herding”; “Nilo-Saharan Peoples Produce Food & Pottery”; “Bantu People Invent Copper Metallurgy”; “East African Trading Port of Rhapta Flourishes”; “West African Gold First Reaches Fourshey, Curriculum Vitæ Page 2 of 17 North Africa”; “Mashariki Bantu Establish Chifumbaze Ironworking Culture”; Hyksos Create Second Intermediate Period”; “Gash Civilization Thrives in Northeastern Africa”; “Omotics Advance Farming Practices in Horn of Africa”; “BaTwa Peoples Thrive in Central Africa”. 2001 Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, Salem Press 7 Entries “Niger-Congo”; “Copper Belt”; “Chifumbaze Culture”; “Gash East African Civilization” “Yam Nilotic Civilization”; “Era of the Nine Saints”. Consulting 2016 PBS – Africa: The Great Civilizations Series – Airdate February 2017. Reviews 2015 Book Review Bitter Legacy: Slavery in Africa, in African Studies Review Vol. 14 Issue 4. 2011 Book Review Madagascar: A Short History in African Historical Review vol. 43, no. 2. 2009 Book Review India In Africa, Africa in India: Indian Ocean Cosmopolitanisms in International Journal of African vol. 44, no. 2. Historical Studies. 2009 Book Review End of Dynasty: The Last Days of the Prince Imperial, Zululand 1879 in African Historical Review vol. 41, no. 2. 2009 Book Review Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa in African Historical Review vol. 41, no 1. 2005 Book Review, Dhows & the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar, 1860-1970 in Itinerario vol. 28, no. 3. 2005 Film Review, “Women Filmmakers From Africa And The Diaspora,” in Newsletter for the Coordinating Council for Women in History vol. 36, no. 2. 2003 Book Review, Mau Mau & Nationhood: Arms, Authority, & Narration in Jenda Issue 7. 1998 Book Review, The Boers in East Africa: Ethnicity & Identity in Ufahamu vol. XXVII, nos. I-III. CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS 2017 African Studies Association (ASA), Chair Food in Motion: Cuisine, Crops, and Cultural Creativity in Africa History Chicago, IL November 15-19. 2017 ASA, Indigenous Institutions and Development Paradigms How they impact Women, a Roundtable Intervention “Hospitality, Family, & Belonging as Creative and Resilient Institutions,” Chicago, IL November 15-19. 2017 Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD), Sub-Saharan Migrations Two Sessions Panel “Sub-Saharan African Migration: Challenges & Coping Strategies” Seville, Spain November 7-12. 2017 ASWAD, Empowering the Black Body: Gender, Performance and Power “Contesting Public & Private Spheres through the Kanga” Seville, Spain November 7-12. 2017 American Historical Association (AHA), “Position & Mission: Women of Color Historians' Career Considerations & Implications” Denver, CO January. 2016 ASA, History of Grief & Grieving in Tanzania: Emotion & Demands “ Washington, DC December. 2016 Columbia University History Department Workshop on Historical Linguistics “Where are the Dictionaries & Who are the People?: Historical Linguistics in Southwestern Tanzania” May 5-6. 2016 American Society for Environmental History (ASEH), “Racial Justice & Environmental History, ‘Bantu’ Somali in Kakuma, Kenya” Seattle, WA March 31-April 2. 2016 University of Texas, San Antonio
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