July 19-23, 1999
Lecturers
July 19-23, 1999
Lecturers
Prester John
Edan Dekel is a graduate student in the Department of Classics at
the U. C. Berkeley. He is studying comparative epic, comparative mythology,
and comparative linguistics. He currently teaching Mythology, Ancient Greek,
and Language Studies at the School of Education's Academic Talent Development
Program at Berkeley. Dekel is also a popular lecturer for the ORIAS History
Through Literature project and will be leading the upcoming Saturday series
on comparative myth and legend in 7th grade curriculum.
Professor Kanogo teaches African history at U. C. Berkeley. Originally
from Kenya, she was a Senior Lecturer at Kenyatta University and a Rhodes
Visiting Fellow at Oxford University. She has published numerous works
on Kenyan history and is currently working on a book entitled Crossing
Boundaries: Negotiating African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900-1963.
Professor Karras is currently a member of the International and Area
studies faculty at U.C. Berkeley. He received his Ph.d. in History from
the University of Pennsylvania and has published and lectured extensively
on the history of slavery and migration in America. In 1996 he acted as
consultant on Diasporas for the Annenberg Foundation/CPB project, "Migrations
in World History."
Professor Minault teaches history of India, Islam in South Asia,
and women in Asia at the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Minault
is the author of The Khilafat Movement: Religious Symbolism and Political
Mobilization in India (1982). She edited The Extended Family: Women and
Political Participation in India and Pakistan (1981) and co-edited Separate
Worlds: Studies of Purdah in South Asia (1982) and Abul Kalan Azad: A Religious
and Intellectual Biography (1988). She has also translated Voices of Silence
(1986).
Professor Rabasa teaches courses on historiography, the aesthetics
of violence, orality and literacy, and colonial/postcolonial studies in
the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at U. C. Berkeley. Rabasa is a
native of Mexico City receiving his Ph.D. in History of Consciousness at
U. C. Santa Cruz. He is currently involved in a long-term research project
on "Pre-Colombian Pasts and Indian Presents in Mexican History"--a series
of
studies that will range from the early years of the colonial period to
the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas. Rabasa is the author of Inventing
America: Spanish Historiography and the formation of Eurocentrism.
Duke University Press will publish Rabasa's new book, Writing Violence
on the Northern Frontier, in the fall of 2000.
Sabine Stoll is a graduate student in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at U. C. Berkeley, specializing in Slavic Linguistics. She received her M.A. from the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany and spent two years working at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, Holland.
Dr. Taylor completed her Ph.D. in Medieval History in the History
Department at U. C. Berkeley in May 1999. Her thesis concerned the growth
of the crusader movement in Central Europe, and analyzed the first instance
of a formal crusade conducted against a non-Islamic enemy -- the West Slavic
Crusade of 1147. She is currently employed as a library assistant at the
Robins Collection for the History of Civil and Canon Law (U. C. Berkeley)
and will be joining Canadian Foreign Service in the fall.
Professor Tolmacheva teaches Islamic civilization and Middle East
history at Washington State University, Pullman. She also serves as Associate
Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Director of the Asia Program. Tolmacheva
received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Ethnography, Academy of Sciences
of the U.S.S.R., Leningrad. Her publications include "Ibn Battuta on Women's
Travel in the Dar al-Islam" (Women and the Journey, Washington State University
Press, 1993) and "Female Peity and Patronage in the Medieval 'Hajj'" (in
Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Patronage, and Piety, ed. By
Gavin R.G. Hamble. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998, pp. 161-179).
The Black Plague
Eddi Vulic is a graduate student in medieval history at U. C. Berkeley.
He received his B.A. from Ohio State University and his M.A. from U. C.
Berkeley. Currently he is working on a dissertation entitled "Narrative
Maps: Ordering Historical Knowledge through Geography", an analysis of
the way several medieval historians and travelers thought about the relationships
between history and space.
Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. is the Haas Professor of Asian Studies at
the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Wakeman studied European
history and literature at Harvard, political science at the Institut d'études
politiques in Paris, and East Asian history and languages at Berkeley,
where he got his Ph.D. in 1965. Professor Wakeman's most recent books include
Policing Shanghai 1927-1937 (University of California Press, 1995) and
The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941 (Cambridge
University Press, 1996). One of his past works, The Great Enterprise: The
Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth Century China, won
the Levenson Prize from the Association for Asian Studies. He is currently
working on a study on Dai Li, the head of Chiang Kai-shek's secret police.
Professor Wakeman served as president of the Social Science Research Council
from 1986 to 1989, as President of the American Historical Association
in 1992, and is currently director of Berkeley's Institute of East Asian
Studies.
Professor Zemtsovsky is currently a visiting scholar with the Center
for Slavic and East European Studies at U. C. Berkeley. During the 1997
fall term, Zemtsovsky was Visiting Professor in the Department of Slavic
Languages and Literatures and during the 1998 spring term he occupied the
Bloch Professorship in the Department of Music. Zemtsovsky is a native
of St. Petersburg, where he graduated from the University and Conservatory
with MA degrees in musicology (with a special interest in the oral tradition),
composition, and folklore. He has published extensively in the fields of
folklore, anthropology, musicology, ethnomusicology and art theory and
is the only Russian to have been named to the Executive Board of UNESCO's
International Council for Traditional Music.
