Associate Professor Thaddeus Sunseri Clark B-346 970-491-6260 Thaddeus.Sunseri@colostate.edu

Education:

Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1993
M.A. University of Oregon, 1984
M.A. (German) University of Northern Iowa, 1982
B.A. University of Northern Iowa, 1980

Specializing in Africa

 

Current Research Interests : History of forestry and forest conflict in Tanzania, c. 1850-2000

 

Teaches the following courses:

HIST171: World History since 1500
HIST420: Precolonial Africa
HIST421: Colonial Africa
HIST422: Modern Africa
HIST423: South African History
HIST530: Graduate Readings in African History

Major Publications:

• "Something Else to Burn: Forest Squatters, Conservationists and the State in Modern Tanzania," Journal of Modern African Studies 43, 4 (2005),609-640
• "Working in the Mangroves and Beyond: Scientific Forestry and the Labour Question in early colonial Tanzania," Environment and History 11, 4 (2005), 365-94
• "Forestry and the German Imperial Imagination: Conflict over Forest Use in German East Africa," in Germany's Nature: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental History, 11, 4 (2005), 365-94
• "Reinterpreting a Colonial Rebellion: Forestry and Social Control i German East Africa 1874-1915," Environmental History 8, 3(2003), 430-51
• Vilimani: Labor Migration and Rural Change in Early Colonial Tanzania, 1884-1915 (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Social History of Africa Series, 2002)

 

Fellowships/Major Grants:

• DAAD Research Grant, Germany, Fall 2006
• Fulbright Grant, University of Zimbabwe, 1996