Visitors to the Department of History and Program in Religious Studies, Spring 2008
Kofi Baku (dkb15@psu.edu) Prof. Baku hails from the University of Ghana, where he has taught since 1987. He holds a bachelor’s degree, a law degree, and d. Phil from the University of Sussex in intellectual history. His research interests include Intellectual resistance to colonial rule in Africa, and chieftaincy and other forms of traditional leadership in Ghana. At Penn State he will be teaching African history.
Jens-Uwe Guettel (jug17@psu.edu) Dr. Guettel is a recent Phd recipient from Yale University. His dissertation was titled "Reading America, Studying Empire: German Perceptians of Indians, Slavery, and the American West, 1789-1900." He will be teaching European and US survey courses this year.
Dayo Mitchell (dnm10@psu.edu) Prof. Mitchell joins us as an Africana Research Center Postdoctoral Fellow. She holds a Phd from the University of Virginia and currently is Assistant Professor of History in the University of Oregon's Clark Honors College. Her research concerns "Free People of Color and the Construction of Citizenship in Trinidad and Dominica, 1800-1838."
Rene Pfeilschifter(rup10@psu.edu) Dr. Pfeilschifter is a Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Fellow, funded by the Humboldt Foundation of Germany, working on a book on the emperor's relations with important groups in Constantinople during the fourth to seventh centuries AD.
Yik Fai Tam (yzt2@psu.edu) Dr. Tam holds a Phd from the Graduate Theological Union, University of California-Berkeley. His specialty is Chinese religion, especially folk Buddhism and the importation of religious traditions to the Americas. He will be teaching Religious Studies classes on Buddhism in 2007-8.
