Sandra E. Greene
Professor
Office: 303 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 255-4124
Fax: (607) 255-0469
E-Mail: seg6@cornell.edu
Office Hours: TBA
Education
Ph.D. Northwestern University, 1981
M.A. Northwestern University, 1977
B.A. Kalamazoo College, 1974
Courses
| Fall 2008: | 3650 |
West Africa & The West: 1450-1850 |
|---|---|---|
| Spring 2009: | 2410 |
Riot Revolution in 19C Africa |
2550 |
Past & Present: Precolonial Africa |
Recent Publications and Awards
Books
Sacred Sites and the Colonial Encounter: A History of Meaning and Memory in Ghana. Indiana University Press. (2002).
Gender, Ethnicity and Social Change on the Upper Slave Coast: A History of the Anlo-Ewe, Heinemann Books, Social History in Africa Series.
Articles
“Whispers and Silences: Explorations in African Oral History,” Africa Today, 50, 2, 41-54. (2003).
“The Multiple Worlds of African Studies: A Note on the Future of Area and African Studies,” in Global/Local: Re-visioning the Area Studies Debate, edited by Ali Mirsepassi, Amrita Basu and Fred Weaver. Syracuse University Press. 2003.
“Notsie Narratives: History, Memory and Meaning in West Africa,” in a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, entitled “Enduring Enchantments: Tradition/Community, Colony/Modernity. Edited by S. Dube. (2002)
“In the Mix: Women and Ethnic Identities Among the Anlo Ewe,” in Ethnicity in Ghana. Edited by Paul Nugent and Carola Lenz. Macmillan Press. (2000).
“Cultural Zones in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Exploring the Yoruba Connection among the Anlo-Ewe,” in Identities in the Shadow of Slavery. Edited by Paul Lovejoy. London: Continuum. (2000).
"Flora Nwapa's Efuru": Teaching a Gendered Text in Context," in African Novels in the Classroom. Edited by margaret Jean Hay. Lynne Reinner Press (2000).
"Symbols and Social Acticism: An Agenda for African Studies and the ASA for the 21st Century," African Studies Review, 42, 2 (1999).
“Family Concerns: Gender and Ethnicity in Pre-colonial West Africa,” in International Review of Social History, Supplement No. 7. (1999).
“Gendered Politics, Power and Culture in West Africa.” Review of Edna G. Bay, Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey. H-Net Reviews: Michigan State University, Department of History, (March 31, 1999).
"Developing the Arts for Development in Ghana," Africa Notes, (Feb.) Bulletin of the Institute for African Development, Cornell University, Ithaca (1998).
"A Perspective From African Women's History: Comment on "Confronting Continuity," in Journal of Women's History, 9, 3 (1997).
"Sacred Terrain: Religion, Politics and Place in the History of Anloga (Ghana)," International Journal of African Historical Studies, 30, 1. Reprinted in Sacred Realms: Essays in Religion, Belief and Society. Edited by Richard Warms, James Garber and John McGee. New York: University Press, 2004 (1997).
"The Individual as Stranger in 19th Century Anlo: The Politics of Identity and Social Advancement in Precolonial West Africa," in The Cloth of Many Colored Silks: Essays in Honor of Ivor Wilks, edited by John Hunwick and Nancy Lawler, Northwestern University Press, Evanton (1997).
"Crossing Boundaries/Changing Identities: The Descendants of Female Slaves and Male Strangers in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Anlo," in Maria Grosz-Ngate and Omari H. Kokole, Editors, Gendered Encounters: Challenging Cultural Boundaries and Social Hierarchies in Africa. Routledge: London (1997).
"Religion, History and the Supreme Gods of Africa: A Contribution to the Debate." in Journal of Religion in Africa, XXVI, 2 (1996).
Awards/Honors
Scared Sites and the Colonial Encounter: Finalist for the 2003 Herskovits Prize (the best book on Africa published in the previous year in the fields of History, Political Science, Art History, Anthropology and Literature).
Society for the Humanities, Cornell University. Faculty Fellow award for the Fall Semester of 1999.
Society for the Humaities, Cornell University. Grant from the Funds for Research in the Humanities to organize an interdisciplinary and comparative world area conference on Gender, Power and Spirit Possession that was held on 17-18 April, 1999.
President; Vice President; Past President. African Studies Association, 1996-1999.
Fulbright Scholar Program. Lecturing/Research Award for Ghana, 1995-1996.