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Stephan Miescher

Current Courses

Fall 2009 (current)

  • History 147G
    Gender and Power in Modern African History [cross listed]

Winter 2010 (tentative)

  • History 201AF
    Advanced Historical Literature: Africa
  • History 49B
    Survey of African History (1800 CE to Present) [cross listed]

Spring 2010 (tentative)


Department Fields

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Current Graduate Students

Africa


Associate Professor
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1997

Office: HSSB 4241 Fall 2009 Hours: W 2-4 pm, or by appointment
Phone: (805) 893-7676   Fax: (805) 893-8795
Email: miescher@history.ucsb.edu

HIST 201OH Winter 2009 Syllabus

Research and Teaching Interests

  • 19th and 20th Century Social History of West Africa
  • Ghana
  • Gender, Masculinities, History of Sexualities
  • Colonialism, Modernity
  • Oral Historiography

Current Projects

  • Akosombo Stories: The Volta River Project, Modernity, and Nationhood in Ghana
    Akosombo Stories explores the history of Ghana’s most ambitious development project, the Volta River Project, completed in 1966, and its importance for the process of nation building.

Selected Publications

  • Africa After Gender?
    Co-edited with Catherine Cole and Takyiwaa Manu (Indiana University Press, 2007)
  • Making Men in Ghana
    (Indiana University Press, 2005)
  • Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa
    Co-edited with Lisa A. Lindsay (Heinemann, 2003)
  • African Words, African Voices: Critical Practices in Oral History
    Co-edited with Luise White and David William Cohen (Indiana University Press, 2001)
  • Männergeschichten: Schwule in Basel seit 1930
    Co-edited with Kuno Trüeb (Buchverlag Basler Zeitung, 1988)
  • “‘My Own Life’: A. K. Boakye Yiadom’s Autobiography—Writing and Subjectivity of a Ghanaian Teacher-Catechist”
    in Africa’s Hidden Histories: Person, Text, and the Colonial State, ed. Karin Barber, 27-51 (Indiana University Press, 2006)
  • “The Challenges of Presbyterian Masculinity in Colonial Ghana”
    Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, New Series, no. 9 (2005): 75-101
  • “‘Called to Work for the Kingdom of God’: The Challenges of Presbyterian Masculinity in Colonial Ghana”
    In Readings in Gender in Africa, ed. Andrea Cornwall, 187-95 (Indiana University Press, 2005)
  • “Been-to Visions: Transnational Linkages among a Ghanaian Dispersed Community in the Twentieth Century”
    Ghana Studies 2 (1999), 57-76, with Leslie Ashbaugh
  • “Of Documents and Litigants: Disputes on Inheritance in Abetifi -- a Town of Colonial Ghana”
    In Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 39 (1997), 81-119

Undergraduate and Graduate Courses

  • History 49A: Survey of African History (Prehistory to 1800 CE)
  • History 49B: Survey of African History (1800 CE to Present)
  • History 101G: Comparative Histories of Same-Sex Practices and Gender Variance
  • History 147G: Gender and Power in Modern African History
  • History 147PP: Proseminar in Modern African History
  • History 147Q: Readings on African History
  • History 201AF: Advanced Historical Literature: Africa
  • History 201C: Advanced Historical Literature: Comparative
  • History 201OH: Advanced Historical Literature: Oral History
  • History 203A-B: Historical Perspectives on Masculinities

Honors and Professional Activities