VITA

 

ROGER BEARDEN BECK

 

ADDRESS

Department of History

Eastern Illinois University

Charleston, IL 61920

Tel: (217) 581-5529

E-Mail: rbbeck@eiu.edu

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Indiana University, 1987

M.A.  Indiana University, 1979

M.S.  Indiana University, (Soc. Stu. Ed.), 1977

B.A.  Uni. of Evansville, (Soc. Stu. Ed.), l969

 

Ph.D. FIELDS OF STUDY

Major-African History

Minors-Europe since 1789

      -U.S. to 1865

Outside Minor-African Studies

 

LANGUAGES: French, Afrikaans, Dutch, German, Italian

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

EIU Distinguished Faculty Award, 2007

Awarded EIU Achievement and Contribution Award for Research/Creative Activity, Fall, 2006.

Awarded Personal Merit Increase as Full Professor, Spring 2002.

Awarded EIU Achievement and Contribution Award for Research/Creative Activity, Fall, 2001.

Awarded EIU Achievement and Contribution Award for Research/Creative Activity, Fall, 1998.

Council for Faculty Research Award, FY95

Council for Faculty Research Award, FY92

Council for Faculty Research Award, FY91

Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad - Brazil, Summer 1991.

Presidential Summer Research Award, Eastern Illinois University, Summer 1990.

Promoted to Professor, July, 1995

Promoted to Associate Professor,  Spring 1990.

Council for Faculty Research Grant,  FY89.

Council for Faculty Research Grant, FY88.

Intern, Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents, sponsored by the National Archives, National  Historical Publications and Records Commission, June 1988.

Presidential Summer Research Award, Eastern Illinois University, Summer 1988.

Improvement of Undergraduate Instruction Endowment Grant, Eastern Illinois University, Spring 1988.

Susan O'Kell Award, Outstanding Associate Instructor, Indiana University History Department, 1984-1985.

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, 1982-83.

FLAS Language Fellowship, Indiana University, Zulu, 1979-80.

FLAS Language Fellowship, Indiana University, Afrikaans, l978-79.

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Professor, Eastern Illinois University,  African History, World History, 20th Century World, Third World History, 1987- .

Appointed as Acting Associate Dean, Graduate School and International Programs, Eastern Illinois University, January 1996-June 1997

Chair of Social Science Studies Department, Eastern Illinois University, 1987-1992.

Teacher, Eight Grade U.S. History, Longfellow Junior High School, Indianapolis, Spring Semester, 1987.

Instructor, Indiana University, School of Continuing Studies, Bloomington, African History, 1978-1980, 1984- .

Associate Instructor, Indiana University, Bloomington, American History, World History, 1982-85.

Visiting Lecturer, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, African History, European History, 1980.

Social Studies Teacher, London Community School, London, England, Social Studies, 1975.

Social Studies Teacher, Nishimachi International School, Tokyo, Japan, European and American History, 1972-74.

Social Studies Teacher, American School in Paris, Paris, France, European and American History, 1970-72.

Social Studies Teacher, Cascade High School, Clayton, Indiana, European and American History, 1969-70.

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Member, EIU Presidential Search Committee, 2006-2007.

Member, EIU Intercollegiate Athletic Board, 2006 –

Member, Social Sciences and History Teacher Education Committee, 1987 –

Member, Department of History Computer and Technology Committee, 1995 -

Chair, Department of History East Asian Position Search Committee, 2004-2005

Member, Department of History Asian Position Search Committee, 2000-2001

Member, African American Studies Director Search Committee,

Elected Treasurer, World History Association, Jan. 2002-Jan. 2006

Acting Treasurer, World History Association, March 2000-Jan. 2002

Chair, Development Fund committee, World History Association

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of World History

Member, Eastern Illinois University Faculty Senate, 1995-96.

Associate Dean, EIU Graduate School and International Programs, 1994-1996

Consultant on National History Standards Project for World History, National Center for History in the Schools, UCLA, Los Angeles, August 1994.

World History Association, National History Standards Project focus group for World History, Chicago, July 1994.

Advisory Board, 93/94 to 2003/4 editions of ANNUAL EDITIONS: Developing World, published by the Dushkin Publishing Group.

Member, Content Advisory Committee for the Social Science Field, Illinois State Board of Education Test Review Conference, Springfield, Illinois, 3-4 February, 1994.

Member, Test Development Committee for the GRE Writing Measure, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey, 1993-.

Member, National Executive Council of the World History Association, 1993-1996.

President, Ohio Valley Regional Association of the World History Association, 1992-1993.

Member, African-American Studies Committee, Eastern, 1991-.

Participant, WEIU-TV, Liberal Arts and Sciences Colloquium series program, "Why Study History?" in March 1991.

Member,College Board European History and World Cultures Achievement Test Committee of the Educational Testing Service,  Pinceton, New Jersey, 1989-1993.

Member, EIU Council on Teacher Education, 1989-1992.

Chair, International Membership Committee of the World History Association, 1989-1990.

Member, organizing group of the Ohio Valley Regional Association of the World History Association.

Member, Membership Committee of the World History Association, 1989-1990.

Member, International Activities Committee of the National Council for the Social Studies, 1988-1991.

Research, development and implementation of simulation game for Gifted and Talented Students, summer 1985. Indiana University, Bloomington.

Research, development and implementation of simulation game for H104, Modern European History. Indiana University, Bloomington, 1978.

 

BOOKS and VIDEO

Translator, TREK. Studies on the Wanderings of the Pioneer Population at the Cape (Translation of TREK: Studies oor die Mobiliteit van die Pioniers bevolking aan die Kaap by P.J. van der Merwe,) (Afrikaans to English). (Sun Media, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Forthcoming.)

Co-Author, A History of World Societies, 7th edition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006). Textbook with John McKay, Bennett Hill, John Buckler, and Patricia Ebrey.

Co-Author, World History. Patterns of Interaction (Evanston: McDougal Littell, Spring, 1998). (Ninth and tenth grade world history text.) Third Edition, Spring 2004.

Co-Author, World History. Patterns of Interaction (Evanston: McDougal Littell, Spring, 1998). (Ninth and tenth grade world history text.) Second Edition, December 2001.

Author, The History of South Africa.  History of the Modern Nations Series.  Greenwood Press, September 2000.

Co-author, Case Studies for Modern World History (Evanston: McDougal Littell, late Fall, 1998). (Ninth and Tenth grade case studies reader to accompany modern world history text.)

Senior Consultant, eight part video series accompanying World History. Patterns of Interaction.

Co-author, Modern World History (Evanston: McDougal Littell, Fall, 1998). (Ninth and tenth grade world history text for California schools).

Co-author, World History. Patterns of Interaction (Evanston: McDougal Littell, Spring, 1998). (Ninth and tenth grade world history text.)

Translator, The Migrant Farmer in the History of the Cape Colony, 1657-1842 (Translation of Die Trekboer in die Geskiendenis van die Kaapkolonie (1657-1842), by P.J. van der Merwe.) (Afrikaans to English). (Ohio University Press, 1995)

 

 

PUBLICATIONS – ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, ESSAYS

Chapter, "All Things to All People: Christian Missionaries in Early Nineteenth Century South Africa," in Missions, State and European Expansion in Africa, Raphel Njoku and Chima Korieh, eds. (London: Routledge, 2007):

Entry, “Nongqawuse,” in Women and War: An Encyclopedia, ed. Bernard A. Cook, ABC-CLIO, 2006. II: 433-34.

Entry, “Emily Hobhouse,” in Women and War: An Encyclopedia, ed. Bernard A. Cook, ABC-CLIO, 2006. I: 286-88..

Entry, “Harriette Colenso,” in Women and War: An Encyclopedia, ed. Bernard A. Cook, ABC-CLIO, 2006. I: 125-26.

Entry, “Black Sash,” in Women and War: An Encyclopedia, ed. Bernard A. Cook, ABC-CLIO, 2006. I: 66-67.

Entry, “Ruth First,” in Women and War: An Encyclopedia, ed. Bernard A. Cook, ABC-CLIO, 2006. I: 186-87..

Entry, “Lekganyane, Ignatius (Engenas),” in Holy People of the World. A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, CA.: ABC-CLIO, 2004), vol. 2, p. 505.

Entry, “Nongqawuse,” in Holy People of the World. A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, CA.: ABC-CLIO, 2004), vol. 2, pp. 644-45.

Entry, “Ntsikana,” in Holy People of the World. A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, CA.: ABC-CLIO, 2004), vol. 2, pp. 645-46.

Entry, “Apartheid in South Africa,” in Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History  (Great Barrington. MA.,: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2005), vol 1, pp. 99-103.

Entry, “Missionaries,” in Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History History  (Great Barrington. MA.,: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2005), vol. 3, pp. 1274-1283.

Entry, ”Bishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu,” in Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History History  (Great Barrington. MA.,: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2005), vol. 5, pp. 1909-1911.

Chapter on "Cape Officials and Christian Missionaries in the Early Nineteenth Century," in Christian Missionaries and the State in the Third World.  Eds. Michael Twaddle and Holger Bernt Hansen. Oxford: James Curry, September, 2001.

Chapter on "Monarchs and Missionaries among the Tswana and Sotho," in Christianity in the History of South Africa. Eds. Richard Elphick and Rodney Davenport. (Oxford: James Curry; Cape Town: David Philip; Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1997).

Essay, "World Religions in World History," American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature, American Historical Association, 1995.

Article, "Editing the John Philip Papers," History in Africa 18(1991): 39-47.

Article, "Structure and Spontaneity: Pedagogical Tensions in the Construction of a Simulation of the Cuban Missile Crisis," The History Teacher (Beck, Pace, et al), 24(1990): 53-65.

Critical review essay, "Cecil John Rhodes," in St. James Guide to Biography, Chicago: St. James Press, 1991. pp. 659-60.

Critical review essay, "David Livingstone," in St. James Guide to Biography, Chicago: St. James Press,  1991. pp. 466-68.

Article, "South Africa: First or Third World?" TransAfrica Forum 7(2, Summer 1990): 67-83.

Article, "The South African "Homelands" As Third World Areas," International Third World Studies Journal and Review 2(1, Fall 1990): 209-218.

Article, "Bibles and Beads: Missionaries as Traders in Southern Africa in the Early Nineteenth Century," Journal of African History 30(1989): 211-225.

Article, "Edward Hanbury, Cape Town Ship Chandler and Merchant," Quarterly Bulletin of the South African Library Part 1, 39(1984): 26-38.

Article, "Edward Hanbury, Cape Town Ship Chandler and Merchant," Quarterly Bulletin of the South African Library Part 2, 39(1984): 73-83.

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Manuscript reader for Houghton Mifflin

Manuscript reader for Longman Publishers

Manuscript reader for Westview Press.

Manuscript reader for McGraw-Hill.

Manuscript reader for Ohio University Press

Manuscript reader for McDougal-Littell.

Referee/juror, Journal of World History, The International Third World Studies Journal and Review, Historia (South Africa).

 

Review of Gary Kynoch, We are Fighting the World. A History of the Marashea Gangs in South Africa, 1947-1999, in Itinerario, forthcoming.

Review of Andrew Porter, Religion versus empire? British Protestant missionaries and overseas expansion, 1700-1914, in H-Albion, forthcoming.

Review of Y. G-M. Lulat, A History of African Higher Education from Antiquity to the Present. A Critical Synthesis, in American Historical Review, forthcoming.

Review of Dorothy L.  Hodgson,The Church of Women. Gendered Encounters between Maasai and Missionaries., in Itinerario, forthcoming.

Review of Charles Feinstein, An Economic History of South Africa, in The International Journal of African Historical Studies, vol. 39, 1 (2006):

Review of  Peter Mitchell, African Connections: Archaeological Perspectives on Africa and the Wider World, in History: Reviews of New Books  33(4, Summer 2005): 160.

Review of J.P. Little, Simone Weil on Colonialism, An Ethic of the Other,” in Itinerario, 28(2, 2004): 162-165.

Review of Sampie Terreblanche, A History of Inequality in South Africa, 1652-2002, in The International Journal of African Historical Studies 37(1, 2004): 2-3.

Review of Robert Hyam and Peter Henshaw, The Lion and the Springbok. Britain and South Africa since the Boer War, in The International Journal of African Historical Studies 37(1, 2004): 4-5.

Review of Hermann Giliomee, The Afrikaners, Biography of a People, in History: Reviews of New Books (Spring 2004): 114-15.

Review of Alan H. Jeeves and Owen J.M. Kalinga (eds), Communities at the Margin. Studies in Rural Society and Migration in Southern Africa, 1890-1980, in Canadian Journal of African Studies 38(2, 2004):  .

Review of Judith M. Brown and Robert Eric Frykenberg (eds), Christians, Cultural Interactions, and India's Religious Traditions, in Itinerario  XXVIII(1,2004):120-122.

Review of Patrick Manning, Navigating World History (Historians Create A Global Past, in History: Reviews of New Books 32(1, Fall 2003):35-36.

Review of Robert B. Edgerton, Africa’s Armies. From Honor to Infamy. A History from 1791 to the Present in History: Reviews of New Books. 31(3): 125-127.

Review of Jeffrey Cox, Imperial Fault Lines. Christianity and colonial Power in India, 1818-1940, in Itinerario, 27(1): 125-127.

Manuscript review of Raymond F. Betts, Decolonization, 2nd edition, for Routledge Publishers, to consider for 3rd edition.  October, 2002.

Review of  Marjorie Morgan.  National Identities and Travel in Victorian Britain, on H-Albion, October 2002.

Review of The First Protestant Missionary in India: Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg (1687-1719), H-Albion, May, 2001.

Review of Susan Billington Harper, In the Shadow of the Mahatma:  Bishop V.S.  Azariah and the Travails of Christianity in British India, on H-Albion, May 2001.

Review of Robert Ross, Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750-1870, in the History. Review of New Books, 28(Winter 2000): 80-81.

Review of F.W. De Klerk, The Last Trek, A New Beginning: The Autobiography, in the History. Review of New Books, 29(Spring 2000): 127-28.

Review of The San and the Colonization of the Cape, 1700-1879, in the International Journal of African Historical Studies, 31(1, 1998): 197-98.

Review of The Cape Herders. A History of the Khoikhoi of Southern Africa, in International Journal of African Historical Studies, 31(3, 1998):476-78.

Review of Breaking the Chains. Slavery and its Legacy in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony, in the International Journal of African Historical Studies, 30(1, 1997): 214-215.

Review of Children of Bondage. A Social History of the Slave Society at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1838, and Slavery in South Africa. Captive Labor on the Dutch Frontier, in The Historian, 58(Winter, 1996): 390-91.

Review of Apartheid's Reluctant Uncle. The United States and Southern Africa in the Early Cold War, in History Review of New Books 23(4, Summer 1995): 152-53.

Manuscript review of THE KING'S WORD. Meaning, Conflict and Christianity in a Southern African Kingdom, for Heinemann Publishers, 1994.

Review of The British Presence in the Transorange, 1845-1854, The Missionary Letters of Gottlob Schreiner, 1837-1846, and The Wesleyan Mission in the Orange Free State, 1833-1854, in Journal of African History 35(2, 1994): 318-320.

Review of Between Crown and Swastika. The Impact of the Radical Right on the Afrikaner Nationalist Movement in the Fascist Era, in African Studies Review 37(2, September 1994): 183-84.

Review of Revolution from Above, Rebellion from Below. The Agrarian Transvaal at the Turn of the Century, in History Review of New Books 22(4, Summer 1994): 184.

Review of History Anew and Meaning Over Memory, in The American Historical Review 99(5, December 1994): 1643-44.

Manuscript review of Les Pechers du Nouveau Monde. Les manuels pour la confession des Indiens XVIe-XVIIe siécle, for Westview Press, 1993.

Review of Frontiers. The Epic of South Africa's Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa People, in History Review of New Books 21(4, Summer 1993): 174-175.

Review of The Scramble for Africa 1876-1912, in History Review of New Books 21(3, Spring 1993): 128.

Review of Asante and the Dutch, 1744-1873, in African Studies Review 35(3, 1992): 136-137.

Review of City Games. The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports, in The International Journal of History of Sport 9(Dec. 1992): 473-474.

Review of White Supremacy and Black Resistance in Pre-industrial South Africa, in Journal of African History 33(3, 1992): 505-507.

Review of Black Christians and White Missionaries, in History Review of New Books 20(4, Summer 1992): 179-180.

Review of Mandela, Tambo, and the African National Congress. The Struggle Against Apartheid. A Documentary, 1948-1990 Survey, in History Review of New Books 20(Spring 1992): 120-121.

Review of It's a Matter of Survival, in Politics and the Life Sciences 11(August, 1992): 285-286.

Review of Johannes Menne Postma, The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade 1600-1815; Alabi's World, in African Studies Review 35(April 1992): 150-153.

Review of "Africans and Europeans in West Africa: Elminans and Dutchmen on the Gold Coast During the Eighteenth Century," (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society), in African Studies Review 35(April 1992): 150-153.

Review of Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500, in Library Journal November 1, 1990, p. 110.

Review of A History of the Arab Peoples, in Library Journal January 15, 1991, p. 120.

Review of A History of South Africa, in History Review of New Books 19(4): 179-180.

Review of Christian Nationalism and the Rise of The Afrikaner Broederbond in South Africa 1918-48, in History Review of New Books 19(2, Winter 1991): 75.

Review of Under African Sun, in Journal of Third World Studies VII(2, Fall, 1990): 324-327.

Review of Slaves and Free Blacks at the Cape, 1658-1700, in International Journal of African Historical Studies 12(1980): 323.

Review of A Few Months with the Boers: The War Reminiscences of a Russian Nursing Sister, in The African Book Publishing Record 4(October 1978): 246.

 

PAPERS AND CONFERENCES

Invited Presenter, ““Religions and Religious Missions in World History: Connectors, dividers, and Globalizers,” at “Research in World History: Connections and Globalizations,” Research Agenda Symposium, Boston, MA, 11 November 2006.

Presenter, “Commerce and/or Christianity: British Settler Economies and the Great Debate,” to be presented at the XIV International Economic History Congress, Helsinki, Finland, 25 August 2006.

Presenter, “All Things to All People: Christian Missionaries in Nineteenth-Century South Africa,” 48th Annual Meeting, African Studies Association, Washington, D.C., 17 November, 2005.

Presenter, “’Extending British Interests, British Influence, and the British empire.’ Missionaries and British Identity, 1790-1850,” 51st Annual Midwest Conference on British Studies, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, September 24, 2005.

Presenter, “Missionaries were Britons Too!”, 4th British World Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, July 16, 2005.

Presenter, “Missionaries and Settler Economies,” 20th International Congress of Historical Sciences, Sydney, Australia, July 7, 2005.

Invited Speaker, “World History Textbooks: Have we go it right yet?”, Conference on Teaching World History, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., March 4, 2005.

Presenter, “The Cape Frontier and Great Treks: Missionaries, Itinerant Traders, Trekboers, British Settlers, and the Mfecane Revisited,” 47th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Assocation, New Orleans, 13 November 2004.

Presenter, “South Africa, the Cold War, and Apartheid,” 13th Annual International Conference of the World History Association, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 18 June 2004.

Presenter, “Smouse in the Cape Colony, 1795-1845,” Biennial Conference, Historical Association of South Africa, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 7 April 2004.

Chair, “Ethnicity and Religion,” Biennial Conference, Historical Association of South Africa, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 5 April, 2004.

Presenter, “Translating van der Merwe. The Life and Work of P.J. van der Merwe,” Biennial Conference, Historical Association of South Africa, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 5 April, 2004.

Invited Lecture, "Was Nelson Mandela a Communist? Resistance to Apartheid and the Cold War." 2nd Annual Thomas Fiddick Memorial Lecture at the University of Evansville on February 27, 2004.

Chair, “Religion and Foreign Impacts,” Joint Korean Historical Association/World History Association Conference, Seoul, South Korea, 16 August 2002.

Chair, “Asian Spirituality in History,” Joint Korean Historical Association/World History Association Conference, Seoul, South Korea, 17 August 2002.

Chair, “Gender and Sexuality in World History,” Tenth International Conference of the World History Association, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 30, 2001.

Presenter, "Standards, Standards Everywhere, But What Are We To Teach?", 16th Annual History Teachers Conference, Eastern Illinois University, 29 September, 1995.

Chair, four panels, "Issues in a Changing Africa," "Politics and Economics in Modern Africa I  and II," and "Secular and Non-Secular NGOs in Sub-Saharan Africa," Third World Studies Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, 13-15 October 1994.

Presenter, "Teaching World History in the Social Studies Curriculum," Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, San Francisco, 9 January, 1994.

Presenter, "Offering Salvation and Civilization: Missionaries in the Third World," Third World Studies Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, 7 October 1993.

Chair, panel on "Political and Economic Ramifications of Capitalism," Annual Meeting of the World History Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, 27 June, 1993.

Chair, panel on "African and Missionary Contacts/Contests/Contexts in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Africa," Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Washington, D.C., 22 November 1992.

Moderator, Sunday morning session and Sunday afternoon closing discussion, 16th Annual Plains Indian Seminar, "The Artist and the Missionary. A Native-American and Euro-American Cultural Exchange," Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming, 27 September 1992.

Discussant, panel on "Cultural History and the Sociology of the Mission Station," Conference on "People, Power & Culture: The History of Christianity in South Africa, 1792-1992," 13 August 1992, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.

Participant, Workshop on Missionaries Archives, 8-9 July, 1992, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, England.

Presenter, "Beyond the Boundaries: Relations between the Cape Colonial Officials and Christian Missionaries in the Early Nineteenth Century," Conference on "Christian Missionaries and the State in the Third World," 29 May 1992, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Presenter, "Christian Missionaries and European Expansion: Reflections on the Quincentenary," Annual Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History, 11 April 1992, Dayton, Ohio.

Presenter, "Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing a World History," American Association of University Professors Lecture Series, 23 February 1992, Eastern Illinois University.

Organizer and chair, panel on "Editing and Translating African Historical Sources," Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, St. Louis, 24 November 1991.

Organizer and chair, panel on "Editing African Historical Sources," Annual Meeting of the Association for Documentary Editing, Chicago, 20 October 1991.

Presenter, "Two Nations, Two Worlds: South Africa and Brazil," Annual Meeting of the Illinois Conference of Latin Americanists, 2 November 1991.

Organizer/Coordinator of the Twelve Annual History Teachers Conference, "Nearby History: Finding the Past in Your Own Backyard," Eastern Illinois University, 27 September 1991

Presenter, panel on "Freedom and Responsibility - South Africa," University Lecture Series, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, 13 February 1991.

Organizer/Chair/Presenter, two hour workshop on "Teaching the California Framework Grade Ten World History Course," Annual Meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies, 18 November 1990.

Presenter, "Editing the John Philip Papers," panel on "The Editing of African Historical Documents," Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Washington, D.C., 4 November 1990.

Discussant, panel on "Africa Today: Political Thought and Stabilization," Third World Studies Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, 6 October 1990.

Discussant, panel on "Apartheid," Third World Studies Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, 5 October 1990.

Presenter/Discussant, panel on "International/Global Education in the Colleges and Universities," Seminar on International/Global Education, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 20 June 1990.

Moderator, Plenary Session, "South Africa in Transition," 16th Annual Third World Conference, Third World Conference Association, St. Louis, Missouri, 5 April 1990.

Presenter, "Feast and Famine: South Africa as a Nation of the First and Third Worlds," 32nd Annual Meeting, African Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 2 November 1989.

Presenter, "The South African 'Homelands" as Third World Areas,"  Twelve National Third World Studies Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, 5 October 1989.

Seminar leader, following keynote address by Drs. Leila Fawaz and Peter Von Sivers on "Revolutions in the Middle East," at the Aspen Summer Conference, "Revolutions in World History," Aspen, Colorado, 9 June 1989.

Chair/Discussant, panel on "Religion, Liberation Theology, and Human Rights," at the 15th Anniversary Third World Conference, Chicago, Illinois, 7 April 1989.

Presenter, "Bibles and Beads: Missionaries as Traders in Africa in the Nineteenth Century." African Studies Association 31st Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, 28 October 1988.

Presenter, "Student Teachers and the Social Studies: What Should They Know and How Should They Perform?" Ninth Annual History Conference, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois, 30 September 1988.

Presenter, "Missionaries as Traders: A South African Case Study."  World History Association Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 29 April 1988.

Presenter, "Edward Hanbury, Cape Town Ship Chandler and Merchant." Fourth Cape Town History Workshop, Cape Town, South Africa, 3 June 1983.

Presenter, "Marketing Systems and Merchant Capital Penetration on the Cape Frontier, 1817-1830."  Oxford University, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Post Graduate Seminar, 24 November 1982.

Presenter, "Marketing Systems and Merchant Capital Penetration on the Cape Frontier, 1817-1830."  University of London, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Post Graduate Seminar, "The Societies of Southern Africa," 29 October 1982.

 

TITLE OF Ph.D. DISSERTATION

"The Legalization and Development of Trade on the Cape Frontier, 1817-1830" (Indiana University, 1987)

 

CURRENT MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECTS

n      General Editor, Encyclopedia of World History Documents, 4 volumes, Facts on File (October, 2007).

n      Author, A History of Africa, Houghton Mifflin (September 2008).

n      Translation from Afrikaans to English of three major studies by Afrikaner historian, P.J. van der Merwe:

*Die Trekboer in die Geskiendenis van die Kaapkolonie

     (1657-1842), (Ohio University Press, 1995).

*Die Noordwaartse Beweging van die Boere voor die Groot Trek   

     (1770-1842).

*TREK: Studies oor die Mobiliteit van die Pioniers

     bevolking aan die Kaap. (Forthcoming)

(*Currently negotiating with Sun Media, University of

 Stellenbosch, South Africa, for issuing all three

 volumes on-line, on CD-ROM, and in paperback

 editions, 2006.)

 

 

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Fulbright Association

African Studies Association

American Historical Association

Association for Documentary Editing

South African Historical Association

National Council for the Social Studies

Van Riebeeck Society (South Africa)

World History Association