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

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

TIM CARMICHAEL (African History, Northeast, East and Southern Africa, Islam in Africa) is an Associate 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.

Fulbright Grant 2005
Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

Courses:
African American History Since 1865
Modern Africa
Historiography