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Lamont
DeHaven King is an Associate Professor of History. He received the
Ph.D. and M.A. from Temple University and the B.A. from the Pennsylvania
State University.
He teaches courses at both the undergraduate
and graduate levels in African and Global History.
His research focuses on ethnicity
and nationalism in Africa and comparative global history. Representative
publications include: "Nations without Nationalism: Ethno-Political
Theory and the Demise of the Nation-State." Journal of Developing
Societies, 18:4, Fall 2003; "From Caliphate to Protectorate:
Ethnicity and the Colonial Sabon Gari System in Northern Nigeria."
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 4:2, Summer 2003; and
"State and Ethnicity in Precolonial Northern Nigeria"
in Conceptualizing/ Reconceptualizing Africa: The Construction of
African Historical Identity, edited by Maghan Keita, Leiden: Brill,
2002. His book,
Africa and the Nation-State: State Formation and Identity in
Ancient Egypt, Hausaland, and Southern Africa, was published by
the Edwin Mellen Press in summer 2006. |