David M. Gordon is the author and editor of numerous publications on indigenous knowledge, apartheid, economy, society, and the environment in Africa, including his book, Invisible Agents: Spirits in a Central African History (Ohio University Press, 2012). Professor Gordon’s research and teaching focus on the history of southern and central Africa over the last two centuries, including Atlantic and Indian Ocean trading networks; British, Portuguese, and Belgian colonialism; apartheid; spiritual agency; and the historical imagination. His current research highlights the role of art objects, particularly those connected with cultural heroes, in motivating political and religious change in the central African interior during the nineteenth century. Professor Gordon earned his undergraduate degree in economic history and sociology with distinction in economic history, and honors in African studies (first class), at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and his master’s and PhD in history at Princeton University.
The Roger Howell Jr. Professorship was established by the Board of Trustees in memory of Roger Howell Jr. (1936-1989), member of the Bowdoin Class of 1958, Kenan Professor of Humanities, and the tenth president of Bowdoin College. The professorship was created to recognize his personal and professional devotion to the College, its students, faculty, alumni, and friends.
Негізгі бет "Telling the History of Others", the Roger Howell Jr. Professor of History Inaugural Lecture
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