CURRICULUM VITAE: Toyin Falola ADDRESS: Office: Home: Department of History, 16931 Mouse Trap Dr. The University of Texas at Austin, Round Rock, Tx, 78681 Austin, Tx 78712 Tel: 512 246 9705 Tel: 512 475 7224 (direct) Fax: 512 246 9743 512 471 3261 (message) Fax: 512 475 7222 E-mail:
[email protected] Webpage: Toyinfalola.com DEGREES: B. A. (Honors) History, 1976, University of Ife, Nigeria. Ph.D., 1981, University of Ife, for thesis "The Political Economy of Ibadan, c.1830- 1900." RESEARCH INTERESTS: African history since the nineteenth century, with concentration on West Africa, Nigeria, and the Yoruba-speaking people. TEACHING INTERESTS: Specialized and general courses on Africa, the African diaspora, historiography, and methods of history. TEACHING AWARDS: 2000 Jean Holloway Award for Teaching Excellence 2001 Texas Excellence Teaching Award 2003 Chancellor’s Council Outstanding Teaching Award 2004 Academy of Distinguished Teachers MEMOIR A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt: An African Memoir (University of Michigan Press, August 2004) FESTSCHRIFTEN Adebayo Oyebade, ed., The Transformation of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola (Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2002). Pp. xi+639. Adebayo Oyebade, ed., The Foundations of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola (Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2003), pp. vii: 697. Akin Ogundiran, ed., Precolonial Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola (Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2005,), pp. xi+ 556. COMMENTARIES AND WORKSHOPS ON TOYIN FALOLA “Toyin Falola on African Nationalism” Panel at a conference on Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference, Texas State University, Nov. 1-3, 2006. International Conference on the Works of Toyin Falola, Nigeria, 2003.