Philip Zachernuk
Associate Professor
Email: philip.zachernuk@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-3682
Fax: 902-494-3349
Mailing Address:
Room 3169, Marion McCain Building, 6135 University Ave
PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
Research Topics:PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
- Modern African history
- African Intellectual history
- History of slavery
- Colonialism
Education
- BA (AV整氈窒)
- MA (AV整氈窒)
- PhD (Toronto)
Selected publications
- Colonial Subjects: An African Intelligentsia and Atlantic Ideas. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 2000.
- "Contemporary Africans meet Timeless Africa: West Africans' engagement with ideas of Africa in America, 1930-1950", Journal of West African History Vol 8, 1 (March 2022) (forthcoming).
- "Edward Wilmot Blyden", in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900, ed. David Thomas. (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2022).
- "Who Needs a Witch Doctor?泭 Refiguring British Colonial Cinema in the 1940s,"泭 in Lee Grieveson and Colin MacCabe eds., Film and the泭End of Empire (London:泭 Palgrave Macmillan for the British泭Film Institute, 2011), pp. 95-117泭泭
- "African Intellectuals and the Reconceptualization of Africa," in Misty Bastian and Jane Parpart, eds., Great Ideas for Teaching AV整氈窒 Africa (Rienner, Boulder, 1999).
- "African History and Imperial Culture in Colonial Nigerian Schools," Africa 68 (1998).
- "Of Origins and Colonial Order: Southern Nigerian Historians and the 'Hamitic Hypothesis,' c. 1870-1970," Journal of African History 35 (1994).
Teaching 2024-2025
- HIST 2714/BAFD2714 W - Slavery and Slaving in Global History
- HIST 3435/5435 W - Rise/Fall - African Slavery
- HIST 3470/BAFD3470 W - Wars/Revolt-19th C. Africa
- HIST 4400/5400 F - Topics in African History Nationalism & Independence 泭
Office Hours Fall 2024
- Thursdays 12:00-1:00
- By appointment
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