124th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2010): Possibilities and Limits of Biography in Comparative Perspective

Possibilities and Limits of Biography in Comparative Perspective

AHA Session 243

Sunday, January 10, 2010: 11:00 AM-1:00 PM

Edward A (Hyatt)

Chair:

Elisabeth Israels Perry, Saint Louis University

Topics:

Reading West African Slave Narratives/Writing Biographies
Sandra E. Greene, Cornell University

Writing King Ahebi's Life: Methodological Approaches to African Women's Biography
Nwando Achebe, Michigan State University

The Problem of Plenty: Sources and a Biography of Mary Church Terrell
Alison M. Parker, The College at Brockport (State University of New York)

“No More Cookies or Cake Now C'est La Guerre”: An American Nurse in Turkey, 1919–20
Kathleen Sheldon, University of California, Los Angeles

Ancestors and Founding Fathers: Julius Nyerere and Nationalist Biography
Paul K. Bjerk, Hartwick College

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