Research and Teaching Interests:

African history; Comparative slavery; Third World history; World history; Eurocentrism.

Personal Statement:

I teach undergraduate and graduate courses dealing with a variety of topics including African history, comparative slavery, comparative nationalism, third world history, and world history. These courses are in the main social history courses. My approach in my teaching and research is to handle history with extreme care, as if it were a fragile object, with critical interpretation of what is unsaid as much as, if not more, as what is said and written about. This is all the more true in the field of African history. The courses I teach provide alternative approaches to the study of African and Third World history to that informed by the Eurocentric paradigm.

Representative Publications:

Books:

The Making of Modern Ethiopia, 1896-1974. (1995)

Hegel and Anti-Semitism. (Forthcoming Summer 2007, University of South Africa Press)

Completed book manuscript under consideration for publication:

 Hegel and the Third World:  An Inquiry Into the Making of Eurocentrism (525 pp.)

 Book manuscript in progress:

African Intellectuals and the Critique of Western Modernity, 1850-1960

 Articles and book chapters:

"On the Question of Feudalism, Absolutism and the Bourgeois Revolution," Review, Fernand Braudel Center (Binghamton, NY), vol. xiii, no. 1, Winter, 1990: 49-152.

"Ethiopia: The "Anomaly" and "Paradox" of Africa," Journal of Black Studies, vol. 26, no. 4, March 1996: 414-430.

 "Adwa and Menelik's Ethiopia," in One House: Adwa 100 Years. Eds. Pamela Brown and Fasil Yirgu, 1996: 30-39.