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Ibrahim K. Sundiata Location: Rabb 116 Mail: Department of African and Afro-American Studies Brandeis University P.O. Box 549110, MS 004 Waltham, MA 02454-9110 Email: sundiata@brandeis.edu Phone: (781) 736-2286

Areas of Specialization

• Africa: Social History
• Slavery
• The African Diaspora
• Afro-Brazil

Background and Description

Dr. Ibrahim K. Sundiata is a professor at Brandeis University and a former chair of the Department of History at Howard University. In 2002-2003 he was a fellow at Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute. He received his B. A. from Ohio Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He is the author of Black Scandal: American and the Liberian Labor Crisis, 1929-1936 (1980) and Equatorial Guinea: Colonialism State Terror, and the Search for Stability (1990) which won a Choice Book Award. His book, From Slaving to Neoslavery: the Bight of Biafra and Fernando Po in the Era of Abolotion, 1827-1930 was published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 1996. His latest project, Brothers and Strangers: Slavery and the Black Zion was published in 2003 by Duke University Press and reviewed at Front List Books. In progress is Race Tracts: Sex, Gender, Class at the Turn of the Millennium, an examination of race and its intersection with other social signifiers.

Sundiata has been the recipient of Ford, Woodrow Wilson, and Fulbright Grants, and he taught at Rutgers University, Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the Universidade Federal da Bahia. Dr. Sundiata is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Recently, Professor Sundiata has been awarded the Jeanette Lerman-Neubaur '69 and Joseph Neubauer Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring, 2004-2005.

Major Publications

• Brothers and Strangers, Black Zion, Black Slavery, 1914-1940. Duke University Press, 2003
• From Slaving to Neoslavery: The Bight of Biafra and Fernando Po in The Era of Abolition, 1827-1930. University of Wisconsin Press, 1996
• Equatorial Guinea: Colonialism, State Terror, and the Search for Stability. Westview Press, 1990.
• Black Scandal: The United States and the Liberian Crisis of 1929. Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1980.