Lisa A. Lindsay
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Research Interests
Lisa Lindsay teaches broadly in African history, but her research focuses primarily on the social history of West Africa, particularly Nigeria. Her first book, Working with Gender: Wage Labor and Social Change in Southwestern Nigeria (Heinemann, 2003), dealt with changes in household arrangements and ideas about gender associated with the expansion of wage labor, particularly on the government railway, during the colonial period.
Her interest in gender history is also reflected in the volume she co-edited, Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa (Heinemann, 2003).
More recently, Lindsay has been working on the Atlantic slave trade. She regularly teaches a survey course on the topic, and in 2007 she published a textbook called Captives as Commodities (Prentice Hall).
She is currently at work on the contextualized biography of a South Carolina ex-slave who in the 1850s migrated to his father's place of origin in what is now Nigeria, making trans-Atlantic connections that his descendants and their American relatives maintain to this day.
View a web version of Prof. Lindsay's curriculum vitae (in PDF).
Courses Offered (as Schedules Allow)
For current course listings, consult the Directory of Classes.
- HIST 130 -- Twentieth Century Africa
- HIST 278 -- The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
- HIST 397 -- Research Seminar: Africa Since 1940
- HIST 490 -- Women and Gender in African History
- HIST 534 -- The African Diaspora
- HIST 535 -- Women and Gender in African History
- HIST 721 -- Global History, 1400-1800
- HIST 730 -- Feminist Theory For Historians
Contact
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of History
CB #3195, Hamilton Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195
Phone:(919) 962-2178
lalindsa@email.unc.edu