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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.
Curriculum Vitae
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Contact:
Tim Carmichael, Associate Professor and Director of the African Studies Program
Ethiopia Country Specialist, Amnesty International-USA
Email: carmichaelt@cofc.edu
Department
of History
Office: Maybank 326
Phone: 953-7326
Courses:
261.001 ST: Biographies& African Nationalism, 1920s-1960
Hist 361.001 ST: Race and Violence in Africa, 1856-1956:
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