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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

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