TIM CARMICHAEL (African History, Northeast, East and Southern Africa, Islam in Africa) is an Assistant Professor who received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 2001 and joined the College of Charleston in 2003. He was awarded a Faculty Fulbright fellowship to teach at Addis Ababa University in 2005, when he also served as an international election observer on behalf of the Carter Center.  His most recent publications include "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). Carmichael co-edited Personality and Political Culture in Modern Africa (Boston, 1998) and 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 the Red Sea Press.

Contact:
Tim Carmichael, Assistant Professor

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

Courses :
Fall 2007:
HIST 361.001
ST: Race and Violence in Africa

Hist 104.001, 002

Summer Evening
Hist 261.090 ST: African History &Film

Spring 2008