Timothy Cleaveland
Associate
Professor
340 LeConte Hall
(706)
542-2479
tcleave@uga.edu
Education: Ph.D. - Northwestern University
Current Research Interests: History of milk-kinship in Islamic West Africa, History of slavery, gender and
race
Courses Taught: Studies
in West African History, Introduction to African History to the Sixteenth Century, History of Islam in West Africa, Gender in West Africa
Selected Publications:
Becoming Walata: A History of Saharan Soci-Formation and Transformation. Heinemann
Press.
“Reproducing Walati Society: Women and the Politics of Gender, Age, and social Rank in Twentieth Century
Walata”. The Canadian Journal of African Studies,
Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 189-217.
Regional Interests: West Africa |