Post Tagged with: "Gambia"

  The will be a Meet and Greet with Halifa Sallah on Wednesday, Feb. 21, from 3:15-4:15 p.m. in the Center for Law Justice & Culture, Bentley Hall 001B. The meet and greet is cosponsored by the Center for Law, Justice & Culture and War and Peace theme and is part of […]

Sana Saidykhan, an M.A. student in the History Department, was named a 2017 recipient of the Royal Air Maroc-African Studies Association Student Travel Award. The award includes airline tickets between the United States and any Royal Air Maroc (RAM) destination in Africa, and recognizes “outstanding scholarship by future African studies scholars.” Saidykhan is utilizing the […]

Dr. Assan Sarr will begin the Contemporary History Institute spring semester lecture series on Thursday, Jan. 26, with a talk entitled “Gambia’s ‘Unprecedented’ 2016 Election: Accounting for the Recent Crisis in the Small West African Nation.”  The talk is in Baker 242 at 4:30 pm. Sarr has just returned from a […]

The History Department at Ohio University prides itself on the scholarly productivity of its faculty. Only three months into 2016, a number of its historians have received significant recognition for for their scholarship, both past and future: Dr. Miriam Shadis won both an Institute for International Education Fulbright Fellowship and an Ohio […]

Dr. Assan Sarr, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, published “Land, Power, And Dependency along the Gambia River, Late Eighteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries” in December 2014 in African Studies Review. Abstract: The role of power over people and over land is an important issue in West Africa, with […]