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Philip Zachernuk

Philip Zachernuk

Associate Professor

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Department of History

Email: philip.zachernuk@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-3682
Fax: 902-494-3349
Mailing Address: 
Room 3169, Marion McCain Building, 6135 University Ave
PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Modern African history
  • Intellectual history
  • Social history
  • History of slavery
  • Colonial and post-colonial global history


Education

  • BA (Dalhousie)
  • MA (Dalhousie)
  • PhD (Toronto)

Selected publications

  • Colonial Subjects: An African Intelligentsia and Atlantic Ideas. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 2000.
  • "Who Needs a Witch Doctor?  Refiguring British Colonial Cinema in the 1940s,"  in Lee Grieveson and Colin MacCabe eds., Film and the End of Empire (London:  Palgrave Macmillan for the British Film Institute, 2011), pp. 95-117  
  • "African Intellectuals and the Reconceptualization of Africa," in Misty Bastian and Jane Parpart, eds., Great Ideas for Teaching About Africa (Rienner, Boulder, 1999).
  • "African History and Imperial Culture in Colonial Nigerian Schools," Africa 68 (1998).
  • "Of Origins and Colonial Order: Southern Nigerian Historians and the 'Hamitic Hypothesis,' c. 1870-1970," Journal of African History 35 (1994).

Teaching 2019-2020

  • HIST 1911(01)W - Life Stories Seminar (2019-2020 Topic:  Father of Pan Africanism:  Kwame Nkrumah)
  • HIST 2711F - Struggles that Shaped the Modern World:  1600-1900
  • HIST 3430W  - Making of Colonial Africa, 1850-1930
  • HIST 4475F - African Intellectuals and the Modern Experience

Office Hours Winter Term 2020

  • Tuesdays: 1:00-2:00
  • or by appointment