Faculty News
The department is pleased to welcome the following new faculty members:
Martha Chaiklin, assistant professor of Japanese history. Professor Chaiklin was the Curator of Asian History at Milwaukee Public Museum and is the author of Dutch Commerce and Commercial Culture: The Influence of European Material Culture on Japan, 1700-1850 (Leiden: CNWS, 2003).
Pinar Emiralioglu, visiting assistant professor of Ottoman and Islamic history. Professor Emiralioglu recently received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where she wrote her dissertation on "Cognizance of the Ottoman World: Visual and Textual Representations in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire, 1514-1596"
Patrick Manning, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History. Professor Manning is a distinguished historian of Africa and the world. In recent years he has served as Vice President (Teaching) of the American Historical Association and as President of the World History Network. His recent publications include The African Diaspora: A History through Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming). Migration in World History (London: Routledge, 2004), Slavery, Colonialism and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640-1960 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004), Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003), and Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa, 1880-1995 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Rebecca Shumway, assistant professor of African history. Professor Shumway received her Ph.D. from Emory University in 2004; she is currently writing a book on pre-colonial Fante society in Ghana.
