Wendy Wilson-Fall
Research Interests: Pastoralism in Africa, African diaspora communties in North America; Slaves from Madagascar and their descendents in America, slavery and unfree systems of labor in Africa, identity, memory and ethnicity
Current Position: Chair and Director of Africana Studies, Lafayette College
Preceding Position: Director, West African Research Center, Dakar; Council of American Overseas Research Centers, West African Research Association, September, 1999 – July 2004
GRANTS
Distance Learning: On-line Course Development for Black Experience II, with Amoaba Gooden, Kent State University, Spring 2009
Faculty Incentive Award, Kent State University, Spring, 2009
Co-Director and grant co-writer: West African Research Association Summer Institute, U.S. Department of Education, summer, 2009 Awarded in 2008
Kent State University Faculty Conference Presentation Award - 2008
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. ROOTS Summer Seminar under the direction of Professor Joseph Miller, University of Virginia, June – July 2007
Information For All Project (IFAP) UNESCO, Project Coordinator, Co-author of proposal; Kent State University, Pan African Studies, Lead Invesigator; in collaboration with West African Research Association , April 2005. Project calendar: 3/07 – 8/07.For work in Senegal, Mali and Burkina Faso on distance learning, digitization and categorization of at-risk manuscripts, and on-line archiving
Colonial Williamsburg Rockefeller Library Fellow, 2005 Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, 2005
LANGUAGES : English, fluent ; French, near fluent, Spanish, good ; Wolof, very good, Pulaar, good ; Hausa, and Djerma, fair
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS:
W. Wilson. The Family, Local Institutions and Education. Drylands Research Institute. United Kingdom. 2000. Series on Senegal, Drylands Research Working Paper 20. (R,I) (monograph)
Malagasy Free Black Settlement in Hanover County, Virginia during Slavery: The Intriguing Story of Lucy Andriana Renibe Winston (October, 2007) The Hanover Historical Society, the African American Historical Society of Hanover, pub. Hanover, Virginia MONOGRAPH (I) Forthcoming by Mellon Press, 2009
ARTICLES:
- W. Wilson, with Charles Sow. Kimoh, Dar You Are!” Journal of Pan African Studies (Volume 1 Number 10, 2007). http://www.jpanafrican.com/
- “The Upward Mobility of Wives: Gender, Class and Ethnicity," The Journal of African Philosophy. Volume 12. No. 2, 1999 Carfax Publishers, London, England. Pp 175 – 195. (R)
- "Multiple Perspectives in the Field: Applied Anthropology in Senegal" in Practicing Anthropology, Ed. Bill Roberts. National Association of Practicing Anthropologists/ Society of Applied Anthropologists. April, 1997 pp 18 – 22. (R, I)
-"The Fulani Model of Sustainable Agriculture." Nomadic Peoples, No. 36/37:1995, pp 35-52. International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences; Commission on Nomadic Peoples. (R)
BOOK CHAPTERS:
W. Wilson-Fall “Women Merchants and Slave Depots: St. Louis, Senegal and St. Mary’s, Madagascar” in Slaving Paths:Rebuilding and Rethinking the Atlantic Worlds, Ana Lucia Araujo, editor, Cambria Press. Book submits to publisher August 2010. (R,I)
W. Wilson. “Women and Literacy in Africa” in Readers of the Quilt II: Essays on being black,
female and literate, Joanne K. Dowdy and Sandra Golden (eds.) forthcoming, 2010 (R, I)
- “Life Stories and Ancestor Debts: Creole Malagasy in Eighteenth Century Virginia” in Cossing Memories: Slavery and the African Diaspora, Edited by Paul Lovejoy and Ana Lucia Araujo. Africa World Press, Forthcoming. 2010 (R, I)
- "The Fulbe of the Dieri and the Ferlo." La societe senegalaise entre le local et le global Editor, Momar Coumba Diop. Karthala, Paris. 2002. (R, I)
-"Traditional African Conflict Medecine: The Fulbe Example." in Traditional African Conflict Medecine ed. William Zartman. Johns Hopkins University. SAIS. 1999, .(I)
ENCYCLOPEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS; "Islam in Niger" in World Encyclopedia of Islam. Oxford University Press. 1992 , 2008. (R, I) , “Al Sawm”, World Encyclopedia of Islam, Oxford U. Press, 2008; “Divination,” World Encylopedia of Islam, Oxford U. Press, 2008
BOOK REVIEWS:
Freedom by a Hair’s Breadth: The Tsimihety of Madagascar. For University of Michigan Press. 1990.
FIELD WORK EXPERIENCE: In northern Nigeria, among the Fulani: 1975-1978; in Niger, among the Fulani and Wodaabe, 1981-83; among the Djerma and Hausa, 1981-83, in Madagascar, 1989, 1990, 1996 (Boina and Imerina) ; in Senegal, Fulani, and Wolof communities: 1992-2003; Virginia: 2004, 2005, 2007
APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY EXPERIENCE:
RELEVANT AND SELECTED/APPLIED TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
6/08 – present Co-convener of interdisciplinary research group at Kent State University on environment, society and development
9/08 – Participation, Africa Carbon Forum, Dakar, Senegal
4/03 – 5/03 - Team Leader, National Survery of Touristic Huntin
Supervisors: May Yacoob, John VanDusen Lewis, Suleiman Nyang, and Michael Horowitz
Phone: 610-438-3949
Address: 118 Pardee Hall
Lafayette College
Easton, PA 18042
Current Position: Chair and Director of Africana Studies, Lafayette College
Preceding Position: Director, West African Research Center, Dakar; Council of American Overseas Research Centers, West African Research Association, September, 1999 – July 2004
GRANTS
Distance Learning: On-line Course Development for Black Experience II, with Amoaba Gooden, Kent State University, Spring 2009
Faculty Incentive Award, Kent State University, Spring, 2009
Co-Director and grant co-writer: West African Research Association Summer Institute, U.S. Department of Education, summer, 2009 Awarded in 2008
Kent State University Faculty Conference Presentation Award - 2008
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. ROOTS Summer Seminar under the direction of Professor Joseph Miller, University of Virginia, June – July 2007
Information For All Project (IFAP) UNESCO, Project Coordinator, Co-author of proposal; Kent State University, Pan African Studies, Lead Invesigator; in collaboration with West African Research Association , April 2005. Project calendar: 3/07 – 8/07.For work in Senegal, Mali and Burkina Faso on distance learning, digitization and categorization of at-risk manuscripts, and on-line archiving
Colonial Williamsburg Rockefeller Library Fellow, 2005 Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, 2005
LANGUAGES : English, fluent ; French, near fluent, Spanish, good ; Wolof, very good, Pulaar, good ; Hausa, and Djerma, fair
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS:
W. Wilson. The Family, Local Institutions and Education. Drylands Research Institute. United Kingdom. 2000. Series on Senegal, Drylands Research Working Paper 20. (R,I) (monograph)
Malagasy Free Black Settlement in Hanover County, Virginia during Slavery: The Intriguing Story of Lucy Andriana Renibe Winston (October, 2007) The Hanover Historical Society, the African American Historical Society of Hanover, pub. Hanover, Virginia MONOGRAPH (I) Forthcoming by Mellon Press, 2009
ARTICLES:
- W. Wilson, with Charles Sow. Kimoh, Dar You Are!” Journal of Pan African Studies (Volume 1 Number 10, 2007). http://www.jpanafrican.com/
- “The Upward Mobility of Wives: Gender, Class and Ethnicity," The Journal of African Philosophy. Volume 12. No. 2, 1999 Carfax Publishers, London, England. Pp 175 – 195. (R)
- "Multiple Perspectives in the Field: Applied Anthropology in Senegal" in Practicing Anthropology, Ed. Bill Roberts. National Association of Practicing Anthropologists/ Society of Applied Anthropologists. April, 1997 pp 18 – 22. (R, I)
-"The Fulani Model of Sustainable Agriculture." Nomadic Peoples, No. 36/37:1995, pp 35-52. International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences; Commission on Nomadic Peoples. (R)
BOOK CHAPTERS:
W. Wilson-Fall “Women Merchants and Slave Depots: St. Louis, Senegal and St. Mary’s, Madagascar” in Slaving Paths:Rebuilding and Rethinking the Atlantic Worlds, Ana Lucia Araujo, editor, Cambria Press. Book submits to publisher August 2010. (R,I)
W. Wilson. “Women and Literacy in Africa” in Readers of the Quilt II: Essays on being black,
female and literate, Joanne K. Dowdy and Sandra Golden (eds.) forthcoming, 2010 (R, I)
- “Life Stories and Ancestor Debts: Creole Malagasy in Eighteenth Century Virginia” in Cossing Memories: Slavery and the African Diaspora, Edited by Paul Lovejoy and Ana Lucia Araujo. Africa World Press, Forthcoming. 2010 (R, I)
- "The Fulbe of the Dieri and the Ferlo." La societe senegalaise entre le local et le global Editor, Momar Coumba Diop. Karthala, Paris. 2002. (R, I)
-"Traditional African Conflict Medecine: The Fulbe Example." in Traditional African Conflict Medecine ed. William Zartman. Johns Hopkins University. SAIS. 1999, .(I)
ENCYCLOPEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS; "Islam in Niger" in World Encyclopedia of Islam. Oxford University Press. 1992 , 2008. (R, I) , “Al Sawm”, World Encyclopedia of Islam, Oxford U. Press, 2008; “Divination,” World Encylopedia of Islam, Oxford U. Press, 2008
BOOK REVIEWS:
Freedom by a Hair’s Breadth: The Tsimihety of Madagascar. For University of Michigan Press. 1990.
FIELD WORK EXPERIENCE: In northern Nigeria, among the Fulani: 1975-1978; in Niger, among the Fulani and Wodaabe, 1981-83; among the Djerma and Hausa, 1981-83, in Madagascar, 1989, 1990, 1996 (Boina and Imerina) ; in Senegal, Fulani, and Wolof communities: 1992-2003; Virginia: 2004, 2005, 2007
APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY EXPERIENCE:
RELEVANT AND SELECTED/APPLIED TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
6/08 – present Co-convener of interdisciplinary research group at Kent State University on environment, society and development
9/08 – Participation, Africa Carbon Forum, Dakar, Senegal
4/03 – 5/03 - Team Leader, National Survery of Touristic Huntin
Supervisors: May Yacoob, John VanDusen Lewis, Suleiman Nyang, and Michael Horowitz
Phone: 610-438-3949
Address: 118 Pardee Hall
Lafayette College
Easton, PA 18042
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