TIM CARMICHAEL (African History; Northeast, East and Southern Africa; Islam in Africa) received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 2001, taught at Smith College for a year, and joined the College of Charleston in 2003. During 2005, Carmichael taught undergraduate and graduate courses at Addis Ababa University as a Visiting Fulbright Professor; and he also served as an international observer in the Oromo and Somali zones during the national and regional elections. He has studied and traveled widely in eastern Africa and the Middle East and serves as Director of C of C’s African Studies Program. His major research and study trips have been funded by the Social Science Research Council, Fulbright-Hays, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the United States Department of Education, the United States Information Agency, and the American Institute for Yemeni Studies. Carmichael’s most recent publications of note are "Bureaucratic Literacy, Oral Testimonies, and the Study of Twentieth-Century Ethiopian History," in the Journal of African Cultural Studies (2006), and "The Diaspora in Yemen," in Routes of Passage: Rethinking the African Diaspora, ed. by Ruth Simms Hamilton (East Lansing, 2006). He co-edited Personality and Political Culture in Modern Africa (Boston, 1998) and, along with Mekonnen Tegegn and Shumet Sishagne, is presently completing an annotated translation of Ras Tafari/Emperor Haile Sellassie's personal letters, provisionally titled The Lion of Judah's Pen, to be published by Tsehai Publishers.

Contact:
Tim Carmichael, Assistant Professor and Director of the African Studies Program

Email: carmichaelt@cofc.edu
Department of History
Office: Maybank 326
Hours: by appointment
Phone: 953-7326

Courses:

261.001 ST: Biographies& African Nationalism, 1920s-1960

Hist 361.001 ST: Race and Violence in Africa, 1856-1956:

Publications:(History/African Studies), Personality and Political Culture in Modern Africa (co-editor with Boston, 1998)

Courses :
Spring 2008:
HIST 104.006, 092
Hist 461.001 Research Seminar in Africa

Fall 2008:
HONS 391 ST: Race and Violence in Africa

HIST 104.001, 002

Summer I 2008:
HIST 103.001
Maymester:
HIST 261.001 St: African History & Film