Allen Isaacman

Publications

• Isaacman, Allen. "Toward a Social and Environmental History of the Building of Cahora Bassa Dam." Journal of Southern African Studies (2000).
• Slavery and Beyond:: The Making of Men and Chikunda Identities. Heinemann, Isaacman, Allen, 2006.
• Isaacman, Allen. Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, Work and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961. Heinemann, 1996.
• Samira Machel: A Life Cut Short. Barbara Isaacman, Ohio University Press, Isaacman, Allen, 2020.
• Dams, Displalclement and the Delusion of Development. Barbara Isaacman, Ohio University Press, Isaacman, Allen, 2013.
• Elusive Histories: Clandestine Labor Migration from Mozambique to Colonial Zimbabwe 1900-1980. Ohio University Press, Isaacman, Allen, forthcoming.

Activities

Awards

• Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2002
• College of Liberal Arts Graduate/Professor Teaching Award, University of Minnesota, 1999
• College of Liberal Arts Scholars of the College, University of Minnesota, 1996
• College of Liberal Arts Teaching Award, University of Minnesota, 1987
• Fulbright Scholar Award
• ACLS Fellowship, 2002 - 2003
• Regents' Professor, 2001
• Guggenheim Fellowship, 2002 - 2003
• Center for Advanced Study, Palo Alto fellow, 2008 - 2009
• Center for Advanced Study, Palo Alto fellow, 2010 - 2011

Courses

• Hist 5931 - Topics in Comparative Third World History: Peasants
• Hist 5932 - African Historiography and Methodology
• History 5=930 The Writing of African History and the Production of Knowledge
• History 5930 - The Historical Legacy of Contemporary Crises in Africa
• History 5930 Slalery and Forced Labor in Africa