Frederick Cooper and Jane Burbank

"Empire and Citizenship, 212-1946"

Friday, Oct. 27, 2006
3:30 p.m.
History Department, 168 Dulles Hall
230 West 17th Ave, Columbus, OH 43210

Co-sponsored by the Department of History, Center for Slavic and East European Studies, Department of Comparative Studies, and Center for African Studies.

Frederick Cooper is a Professor of History at New York University specializing in African history, colonization and decolonization, social sciences and the colonial world.

His publications include Plantation Slavery on the East Coast of Africa (Yale, 1977), From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labor and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925 (Yale, 1980), On the African Waterfront: Urban Disorder and the Transformation of Work in Colonial Mombasa (Yale, 1987), Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa (Cambridge, 1996), Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Present (Cambridge, 2002), and Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge History (Berkeley, 2005).

Jane Burbank is a Professor of History at New York University specializing in Russian history, legal culture, imperial polities, and peasants.

Her publications include Russian Peasants Go to Court: Legal Culture in the Countryside, 1905-1917 (Indiana, 2004), Imperial Russia: New Histories for the Empire (edited with David L. Ransel; Indiana, 1998), and Intelligentsia and Revolution: Russian Views of Bolshevism, 1917-1922 (Oxford, 1986; paperback, 1989).

Cooper received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1974. Burbank received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1981.

Frederick Cooper
Professor of History
New York University

Jane Burbank
Professor of History
New York University