ALLEN ISAACMAN
Curriculum Vitae
December 2013
I. ACADEMIC DEGREES
B.A. (with Honors) 1964 City College of New York (C.C.N.Y.)
M.A. 1966 University of Wisconsin (African History)
Ph.D. 1970 University of Wisconsin (African History)
II. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Jan 1970-Jun 1970 Instructor, Department of History, University of Minnesota
Jun 1970-Mar 1972 Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Minnesota
Mar 1972-1976 Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Minnesota
1975-1977 Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Minnesota
1976-Present Professor, Department of History, University of Minnesota
1977-Present Adjunct Professor of Afro-American and African Studies, University of Minnesota
1978-1980 Chaired Professor of Mozambican History, University Eduardo
Mondlane, Mozambique
1988-1998 Director, MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program on Global Change, Sustainability and Justice, University of Minnesota
1994 Visiting Professor, Université de Paris 7 (declined)
1994-Present Adjunct Associate Professor, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
1997-1998 Senior Research Fellow, University of Zimbabwe
1998-2011 Director, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global
Change, University of Minnesota
2001-Present Regents Professor of History, University of Minnesota
2006-2009 Assistant Vice President for International Scholarship
2009-Present Extraordinary Professor, University of Western Cape
III. ACADEMIC HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Fellowship in Comparative Tropical History, University of Wisconsin, 1964-1965
NDEA Title VI Fellowship, 1966-1968
Social Science Research Council, Foreign Area Fellowship, 1968-1970
National Endowment for the Humanities, Younger Humanist Fellowship, 1973-1974
Social Science Research Council Fellowship, 1974
African Studies Association Herkovits Award for most distinguished book
University of Wisconsin Comparative Tropical History Program Fellowship, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation,1975.
Social Science Research Council Fellowship, 1976
American Philosophical Society, 1976
Gulbenkian Fellowship, 1977
American Philosophical Society, 1980
American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant, 1982
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Grant, 1984
National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Independent Research, 1984-1985
American Council of Learned Societies and Social Science Research Council Joint Committee on Africa, Chair, 1981-1987
American Council of Learned Societies, 1988
Bush Fellowship, 1988-89
Social Science Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1991
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1997-1998
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1997-1998
Fulbright Fellowship, 1997-1998
MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grant, 1999-2000
Rockefeller Foundation Visiting Scholar, Bellagio Research Center, 2001
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2008-2009
Stanford Institute for the Humanities fellowship, 2008-2009 (declined)
Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences residential fellowship, 2008-2009
Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences residential fellowship, 2010-2011
Rockefeller Foundation Visiting Scholar, Bellagio Research Center, 2011
African Studies Association, Distinguished Africanist Award, 2013
American Historical Association Klein Award for the best book in 2013
African Studies Association Herkovits Award for most distinguished book 2013
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2015
IV. INSTITUTIONAL GRANTS
MacArthur Foundation (1989-2001) -- to develop Interdisciplinary Graduate Program on Issues of Global Change, Sustainability and Justice (approximately $3,000,000)
MacArthur Foundation (1996-2000) -- to establish Chicago State University –
University of Minnesota Undergraduate Honors Program in International Studies for American minority students (approximately $2,000,000)
Fulbright Foundation (1990-2000) -- for training of graduate students from the developing world (approximately $1.2 million)
Ford Foundation (1993-1996) -- to support graduate seminars and predissertation training (approximately $200,000)
Rockefeller Foundation (1996-2000) -- to support training workshop for African
graduate students (approximately $100,000)
Compton Foundation (2000-2003) -- to support and train African graduate students working in the area of Social Sciences ($250,000) Renewed in 2004.
Mellon Foundation (2002-2005) to support undergraduate honors program for students of color with Morehouse College and the Atlanta University System
Mellon Foundation (2005) Seed grant for project on globalization and the
humanities
Mellon Foundation (2005) Expand undergraduate honors program for students of
color
Mellon Foundation (2006-2009) -- to support an enlarged University of Minnesota
Honors Program in International Study for minority students ($450,000)
Mellon Foundation (2006-2009) -- to support a University of Minnesota –
University of the Western Cape graduate training and faculty exchange
program ($700,000)
Compton Foundation (2008-2010) -- to support and train African graduate students working in the area of Social Sciences ($330,000)
Mellon Foundation (2008-2010) -- to support a University of Minnesota Honors
Program in International Study for minority students ($600,000)
Compton Foundation (2010-2011) -- to support and train African graduate
students working in the area of Social Sciences ($100,000)
V. EDITORIAL BOARDS
Co-Editor, New African Histories series, Ohio University (2004 to present)
Co-Editor, Heinemann Social History of Africa Series (1988 to 2004)
Co-Editor, African Economic History (1984 to 1989)
Editorial Board, Sage Series on African Modernization & Development (1986 to
1988)
Editorial Board, the Garvey and UNIA Papers Project (1985 to 1995)
Faculty Editorial Board, University of Minnesota Press (1978 to 1984, 1993 to
1998)
Editorial Board, American Historical Review, (1996-1999)
Editorial Board, International Journal of African Historical Studies (1999-2004)
VI. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND RECOGNITION
Chair, American Council of Learned Societies and Social Science Research Council Joint Committee on Africa, 1982-1987
Board of Directors, African Studies Association, 1975-1976, 1985-1988
Executive Secretary, Association of Concerned Africa Scholars, 1980-84
Selection Committee, CIC Minority Program, 1985-1991
Fellowship Committee, Woodrow Wilson Institute, 1988 to 1998
Selection Committee, MacArthur Foundation, Writing and Research Program, 1992 to 1994, and 1995
Director, MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program on Global Change, Sustainability and Justice, University of Minnesota, 1988 to 2011
Director, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, University of Minnesota, 1996 to 2011
Vice-President and President-Elect of African Studies Association, 2000–2001
President of African Studies Association, 2001–2002
Nominator, Carnegie Scholars Program, 2003
Senior Consultant, Mellon Foundation, 2003-2004
Senior Consultant, Mellon Foundation-funded Aluka Project, 2004 to 2010
VII. UNIVERSITY of MINNESOTA AWARDS
College of Liberal Arts, Distinguished Teaching Award, 1988
Board of Governors, University Alumni Association Teaching Award, 1987
Scholar of the College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 1996-1998
Member, Academy of Distinguished Teachers, 1999
Award for Outstanding Contributions to Post-Baccalaureate, Graduate and Professional Education, 1999
McKnight Humanities Research Fellowship, 1999-2002
Regents Professor of History, 2001
Presidents Award for Outstanding Service, 2004
Award for Global Engagement, 2008-2010
VIII. INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
Award for Scholarly Excellence and Contributions to the field of Lusophonic Studies, presented at V Congresso Luso-Afro Brasiliero de Ciencias Sociais, Maputo, Mozambique, 1998.
African Studies Association, Distinguished Africanist Award, 2013
IX. BOOK AWARDS
Mozambique: The Africanization of a European Institution, The Zambezi Prazos,
1750-1902, won the Melville J. Herskovits Award as the most distinguished
publication on African Studies for the year 1972.
Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, Work and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique 1938-1961 was selected as a finalist for the 1997 Melville J. Herskovits Award.
Dams, Displacement and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa
won the A.S.A. Melville J. Herskovits Award and A.H.A.Martin Klein Award .
X. BOOKS
Mozambique: The Africanization of a European Institution, The Zambezi Prazos, 1750-1902 (University of Wisconsin Press, June 1972)
The Tradition of Resistance in Mozambique: The Zambezi Valley, 1850-1921
(Heinemann and University of California Press, 1976) Translated into
Portuguese in 1979.
A Luta Continua: Creating a New Society in Mozambique (Fernand Braudel Center, SUNY, 1978)
Mozambique: From Colonialism to Revolution: 1900-1982 (Westview Press, 1983), written jointly with Barbara Isaacman
Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America, Co-authored with Fred Cooper, Florencia E. Mallon, Steve J. Stern, and William Roseberry (University of Wisconsin Press, 1993)
Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, Work and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique 1938-1961 (Heinemann, 1996)
Slavery and Beyond: The Making of Men and Chikunda Ethnic Identity in the Unstable World of South Central Africa, 1750-1920 (Heinemann, 2005)
Dams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and Its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965-2007 (Ohio University Press, 2013)
XI. EDITED WORKS
Issue, vol III (1975) -- a special volume on southern Africa
Issue, vol VIII (1978) -- a special volume on Mozambique
Society, Economy and Politics in Southern Africa (Michigan State University Press, 1982), with David Wiley
The Saga of a Cotton Capulana (University of Wisconsin, African Studies Center, 1982)
The Life History of Raul Honwana: An Inside View of Mozambique from Colonialism to Independence (Boulder: Lynne Reiner Publishers, 1988; translated into Portuguese 1989).
Cotton, Colonialism and Social History in Sub-Saharan Africa (Heinemann, 1995) with Richard Roberts
Slave Routes and Oral traditions in Southeast Africa (Filsom, 2006) with Edward Alpers and Benigna Zimba
XII. ARTICLES
"The Prazos da Coroa 1753-1830 - A Functional Analysis of the Political System," Studia, 26(1969): 149-178
"The Origin and Early History of the Chikunda of South Central Africa," Journal of African History, 13(1972):143-163
"Madzi-a-manga, Mhondoro and the Use of Oral Traditions: A Chapter in Barue Religious and Political History," Journal of African History, 14(1973)
"The Prazero as a Transfrontiersman," International Journal of African Historical Studies, 8 (1975): 1-39
"The Tradition of Resistance in Mozambique," Africa Today, 22(1975): 37-51
"The Barwe Rebellion of 1917: The Emergence of a Pan Zambesian Consciousness," in Profiles of Self-Determination, Ed. David Chinawa (California State University Foundation, 1976)
"The System of Adopted Dependency Among the Zambesian Peoples," in Slavery in Africa (University of Wisconsin, 1976) with Barbara Isaacman
"The Changing Historiography of Angola and Mozambique," African Studies since 1945: A Tribute to Basil Davidson, ed. Christopher Frye (Longman, 1977) with Gerald Bender
"Resistance and Collaboration in Southern and Central Africa," International Journal of African Historical Studies 10(1977), 33-65
"Social Banditry in Zimbabwe and Mozambique--A Study in Peasant Protest," Journal of Southern African Studies (1978)
"U.S. Policy Towards Mozambique, 1946-1976," American Policy in Southern Africa (1978): 17-63. Reprinted in Africa Today, vol 25, with Jennifer Davis
"Transforming Mozambique's Rural Economy," Rural Africana (1978): 97-114 Reprinted in Issue, vol 8.
"Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: Peasant Resistance to Forced Cotton Production, 1938-1961," International Journal of African Historical Studies, 13(1980): 558-613 with Michael Stephan, et. al.
"Mozambique during the Colonial Period," Tarikh, 6(1980): 47-60
"Historical Introduction to 'The Saga of a Cotton Capulana,'" Occasional Paper of the African Studies Center of the University of Wisconsin (1981)
"A Socialist Legal System in the Making: Mozambique Before and After Independence," The Politics of Informal Justice, ed. Richard Abe (Academic Press, 1981): 281-323, with Barbara Isaacman
"The Mozambican Cotton Cooperative: The Creation of a Grassroots Alternative to Forced Cotton Production," African Studies Review, (1982): 5-28
"African Resistance and Nationalism in Central and Southern Africa, 1918-1935." UNESCO General History of Africa, with A. B. Davidson and R. Pelissier, vol. 7 (1985): 673-712
"War, Slaves and Economy: The Late Nineteenth Century Chikunda Diaspora," with Anton Rosenthal, Culture et Developpement, 16 (1984): 639-670
"National Liberation and Women's Liberation: Mozambican Women in the Armed Struggle, 1962-1975" with Barbara Isaacman, UFUHAMU (1984)
"Chiefs, Rural Differentiation and Peasant Protest: The Mozambican Forced Cotton Regime, 1938-1961," African Economic History, 14 (1985): 15-57
"African Reaction and Resistance in Central Africa," UNESCO General History of Africa, with Jan Vansina, ed. Adu Boahen, vol. 7 (1985) 169-194
"From Porters to Labor Extractors: The Chikunda and Kololo in the Lake Malawi and Tchiri River Area 1885-1891", with Elias Mandala, Paul Lovejoy and Catherine Coquery-Vedrovitch, eds. The Workers of African Trade (Sage, 1985), 209-243
"Breaking the Chains of Dependency and Stabilization: Mozambique Relations with South Africa, 1900-1982", eds. Gerald Bender, James Coleman and Richard Sklar, African Crises Areas and United States Foreign Policy (1985), 129-159
"The Lower Zambezi Valley and Mozambique," UNESCO General History of Africa ed. J. F. Ade Ajayi, Vol 6 (1986):179-210
"Ex-Slaves, Transfrontiersmen and the Slave Trade: The Chikunda of the Zambezi Valley, 1850-1900," Paul Lovejoy, ed., Africans in Bondage (University of Wisconsin Press, 1986), 273-309
"The Escalating Conflict in Southern Africa: The Case of Mozambique," Survival, 30 (1987): 14-38
"Regional Conflict in Southern Africa: The Case of Mozambique," Current History, (Spring 1987)
"Historical Introduction" to Dumba Nenque, Peasant Tales of Tragedy in Mozambique (1987)
"Colonial Mozambique, an Inside View: The Life History of Raul Honwana," Cahiers d' Etudes Africaines, 109(1988):59-89
"Slaves, Soldiers and Police: Power and Dependency among the Chikunda of Mozambique, 1829-1920," Suzanne Miers and Richard Roberts, eds., The Ending of Slavery (University of Wisconsin Press, 1988), 220-254
"International Conflict in Southern Africa: The Case of Mozambique," Harvard International Review, 12 (1989): 6-12
"Peasants and Rural Social Protest in Pre-Colonial and Colonial Africa," African Studies Review, 33 (1990): 1-120 This essay was reprinted in ConfrontingHistorical Paradigms.
"Os Prazeiros Como Trans-rainos: Um Estudo Subre Transformacao Social e Cultural," Arquivo 1991: 1-48
"Destabilization and State Terrorism in Southern Africa," in Hunt Davis, ed., The Unraveling Apartheid Order (University of Florida Press, 1992) 183-213
"Campones Trabalho e Processo do Trabalho," Mocambique 16 Anos de Trabalho (Maputo, 1992), 195-250
"Peasants, Work and the Labor Process: Forced Cotton Cultivation in Colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961," Journal of Social History, 26 (1992): 104-144
"Coercion, Paternalism and the Labor Process: The Mozambican Cotton Regime, 1938-1961," Journal of Southern African Studies 18 (1992) 487-526
"Mozambique," Robert Hill ed., Essays on Garveyism in Africa (Los Angeles, 1993)
"African Peasantry," Peter Stearns ed., Encyclopedia of Social History (New Haven, 1993)
"Rural Communities Under Siege: Cotton, Work and Food Insecurity in Colonial Malawi and Mozambique, 1907-1960", Robert Harms et al., ed., Paths Toward the Past (Madison, 1994), 283-325 with Elias Mandala
"Peasants at Work: Forced Cotton Cultivation in Northern Mozambique," Allen Isaacman and Richard Roberts eds., Cotton, Colonialism and Social History in Sub-Saharan Africa, (Portsmouth 1995), 147-180 (with Arlindo Chilundo)
"Mozambique," John Middleton, ed, Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara 3(1997) :191-207
"Historical Amnesia, or, The Logic of Capital Accumulation: Cotton Production in Colonial and Post-Colonial Mozambique," Society and Space 15(1997): 757-790
"From Slaves to Freedmen: The Impact of the Chikunda on Malawian Society, 1850-1920 CA," The Historical and Scientific Society of Malawi 52:1999 pp 1-32. Co-edited with Wapu Mulwafu