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Stephan Miescher

Current Courses

Winter 2013 (current)

  • History 201C
    Advanced Historical Literature: Comparative
  • History 49A
    Survey of African History (Prehistory to 1800 CE) [cross listed]

Spring 2013 (tentative)


Department Fields

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Current Graduate Students

Africa


Associate Professor
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1997

Office: HSSB 4241
Hours:
Phone: No phone   Fax: (805) 893-8795

HIST 201OH Winter 2009 Syllabus

Research and Teaching Interests

  • 19th and 20th Century Social History of West Africa
  • Ghana
  • Gender, Masculinities, History of Sexualities
  • Modernity and History of Development
  • 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 and the Akosombo Dam, completed in 1966, and its importance for the process of nation building.

Selected Publications

  • Revisiting Modernization
    Special Issue, Ghana Studies 12/13 (2009/2010), co-edited with Peter J. Bloom and Takyiwaa Manuh
  • 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)
  • "Hydro-Power and the Promise of Modernity and Development in Ghana: Comparing the Akosombo and Bui Dam Projects"
    Ghana Studies 12/13 (2009/2010), 55-75, with Dzozi Tsikata
  • "Masculinities and Transcultural Perspectives in African History"
    In: Gender in Trans-it, ed. M. Ineichen et al., 69-83 (Zurich: Chronos Verlag, 2009)
  • "Masculinities, Intersectionality, and Collaborative Approaches"
    Men and Masculinities 11, no. 2 (2008), 227-33
  • "From Pato to Parlor: Domesticity, Masculinity, Religious Space, and Alternative Archives in 20th Century Ghana"
    Comparativ: Zeitschrift fuer Globalgeschichte and vergleichende Geschichtsforschung 17, nos. 5/6 (2007), 131-45
  • “‘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)
  • “‘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)
  • “The Challenges of Presbyterian Masculinity in Colonial Ghana”
    Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, New Series, no. 9 (2005): 75-101
  • “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”
    Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 39 (1997), 81-119
  • Männergeschichten: Schwule in Basel seit 1930
    Co-edited with Kuno Trüeb (Buchverlag Basler Zeitung, 1988)

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