Nemata Blyden

Associate Professor of History and International Affairs

Phillips 307
801 22nd Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052

Phone: (202) 994-3318
Fax: (202) 994-6230
E-mail: nemata@gwu.edu

Education:

Ph.D., Mphil, Yale University

Expertise:

African and African Diaspora history with strengths in the history of Sierra Leone and Liberia

Background:

Nemata Blyden has a BA in History and International Relations from Mount Holyoke College, and an MA and PhD from Yale University (1998). She specializes in African/African Diaspora history, and has researched women's issues in nineteenth century Liberia. She has also done work for Encyclopedia Britannica and for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library). Professor Blyden has lived in Africa, Europe and the Soviet Union, and remains engaged with issues pertaining to African development. Her publications include: "The Search for Anna Erskine: African American Women in Nineteenth Century Liberia" in Stepping Forward: Black Women in Africa and the Americas (Ohio University Press, 2002); West Indians in West Africa, 1808-1880: A Diaspora in Reverse (University of Rochester Press, 2000); and "Edward Jones: An African American in Sierra Leone" in Moving On: Black Loyalists in the Afro-Atlantic World (Garland Publishing, Inc. 1999).

Courses Taught:

Hist 103 African History to 1880
Hist 104 Topics in African History since 1880
Hist 105 Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World
Hist 106 Women in Africa