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Assistant Professor Nate Plageman

African History
B-108 Tribble Hall; 758-4318
e-mail: plagemna@wfu.edu

Education:
BA St. Olaf College
MA Indiana University
Ph.D. Indiana University

Courses Offering:
H105 Africa in World History
FYS African Expressive Culture as History
H268 African History to 1850
H269 African History since 1850
H336 Gender in African History
H340 African Cities and Urban History

Professional and Research Interests: The social and cultural history of sub-Saharan Africa; colonialism in Africa; popular culture; gender; African cities; 20th century Ghana

Selected Publications:
“Accra is Changing, Isn’t It?: Urban Infrastructure, Independence, and Nation in the Gold Coast’s Daily Graphic, 1954-57” International Journal for African Historical Studies (forthcoming, March 2010).

“Everybody Likes Saturday Night: A Social History of Popular Music and Masculinities in Urban Gold Coast/Ghana, c. 1900-1970” PhD Dissertation, Indiana University, 2008.


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