Stephanie Beswick, Ph.D.
Curriculum Vitae
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Ball State University
Address: Department of History
Muncie, IN 47306
E-Mail: sfbeswick@bsu.edu
Education:
Ph.D. Michigan State University (1998)
Major Field: African History
Minor Fields: African Women's History
British Imperial History,
Islamic History
M.A. Michigan State University (1994)
B.A. Rutgers University of New Jersey (1992)
Languages:
Dinka, Arabic (Sudanese), French (reading)
Honors Societies:
Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Alpha Theta Scholarships and Awards at MSU
P U B L I C A T I O N S
BOOKS and
EDITED JOURNALS
FORTHCOMING: Sudan's Slaving Grounds: A History of Slavery in Southern Sudan: 1500-2004
Sudan's Bloodmemory: The Legacy of War, Ethnicity and Slavery in Early South Sudan (Boydell and Brewer/University of Rochester Press, 2004). See reviews: American Historical Review, Feb. 2004 and International Journal of Historical African Studies, 2004.
Women and Conflict in the Horn of Africa, Stephanie Beswick and Jay Spaulding, eds. Special Issue of Northeast African Studies, Vol. 8 Number 3, 2001 (appeared Spring 2006).
White Nile, Black Blood: War, Leadership and Ethnicity from Khartoum to Kampala, Jay Spaulding and Stephanie Beswick, eds. (Red Sea Press, 1999).
Personality and Political Culture in Africa, Mel Page, Stephanie Beswick, Timothy Carmichael, Jay Spaulding, eds. (Boston: African Studies Center, Boston University, 1998).
ARTICLES:
"Nilotes of Sudan," entry for Encyclopedia for Africa and Africana Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
"If you leave your country you have no life!: Rape, Suicide and Murder; The Voices of Ethiopian, Somali and Sudanese Female Refugees in Kenyan Refugee Camps," in Women and Conflict in the Horn of Africa Vol. 8 Number 3, 2001 (appeared Spring 2006)..
"Sudan" entry for The New Book of Knowledge Encyclopedia, Grolier Incorporated, Danbury, CT. 2003.
"'We are Bought Like Clothes:' The War Over Polygyny and Levirate Marriage in South Sudan," special volume on "Dimensions of Gender in the Sudan," Northeast African Studies, African Studies Center, Michigan State University, Vol. 8 No. 2 (2001): 35-62 (published in 2005).
"The Ethnicity of Bondage in the Valley of the Upper Nile: Slavery and the Slave Trade through the Eyes of the Possessed," Race and Ethnicity in the Nile Valley, editor: Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Red Sea Press, 2004; pp. 103-116
"Women, War and Leadership in South Sudan, (1700-1990)," White Nile, Black Blood: War, Leadership and Ethnicity from Khartoum to Kampala, Red Sea Press, 1999; pp. 93-111.
"The Ngok: Emergence and Destruction of a Nilotic Protostate in Southwest Kordofan," Kordofan Invaded, editors: Endre Stiansen and Michael Kevane. Leiden: Brill, 1998; pp. 145-164.
"A Religious and Ethnic Kaleidoscope or a North/South Frontier? Dinka/Baggara Relations Across the Kir/Bahr el-Arab River," Personality and Political Culture in Africa, Boston: African Studies Center, Boston University, 1998; pp. 49-64.
"Sex, Bondage and the Market: The Emergence of Prostitution in Northern Sudan, 1750-1950," Journal of the History of Sexuality Vol. 5 No. 4 (1995): 512-354..
"Master Servant Relations During the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium in the Sudan, 1898-1956," Michigan Academician XXVII (1995): 441-63.
"The Black Hole of Kosti: the Murder of Baggara Detainees by Shaigi Police in a Kosti Barracks, Sudan, 1956," Northeast African Studies Vol. 2 No 1 (1995): 61-83.
"Islam and the Dinka of the Southern Sudan from the Pre-Colonial Period to Independence (1956)," Journal of Asian and African Studies XXIX 3-4 (1994): 172-185.
"Non-Acceptance of Islam in the Southern Sudan: the Case of the Dinka, from the Pre-Colonial Period to Independence (1956)," Northeast African Studies Vol. I No. 2-3 (1994): 19-47.
"The Addis Ababa Agreement, 1972-1983: Harbinger of the Second Civil War in the Sudan," Northeast African Studies Vol. 13 No. 2 (1991): 191-215.
DISSERTATION:
Violence, Ethnicity and Political Consolidation: A History of the Dinka and their Relations with their Neighbors (1200-1994) (Department of History) Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1998.
Advisors: Harold Marcus, Elizabeth Eldredge, David Robinson.
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ADIO INTERVIEW:Interviewed August 20, 2002 by Don Bustany of KPFK Radio in Southern California concerning slavery and the plight of women and other issues in South Sudan.
C O N F E R E N C E P R E S E N T A T I O N S
November 2005: African Studies Association Conference, Washington, D.C.: Paper presented: "Slave Traders, Resistance and the Advantages of Statelessness in Southern Sudan."
August 2005: Sudan Studies Association Conference, Toronto, Canada. Paper presented: "Slavery, Slave Raids and Resistance: Communication and the Flexibility of Stateless Militaries in Nineteenth-Century South Sudan."
November 2004: African Studies Association Conference, New Orleans. Paper presented: "Sudan's Slaving Grounds: Slavery, the Slave Trade and Transformation in Southern Sudan 1500-2004."
May 2004: Sudan Studies Association Conference, Santa Clara University, California. Paper presented: "Slavery and Resistance: The Transformation of Southern Sudanese Societies from the 16th Century to the Present."
July 29-August 2 2003: International Sudan Studies Association, Washington D.C. Paper presented: "Slavery in Southern Sudan."
May 2002: Sudan Studies Association Conference, Reading, Pennsylvania. Paper presented: "Wealth, Marriage and Rapid Dinka Ethnic Expansion in Southern Sudan."
March 2002: Indiana Association of Historians Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana. Paper presented: "Early Systems of Bondage and Slavery in the Valley of the Upper Nile, Sudan."
November 2001: African Studies Association Conference, Houston, Texas. Paper presented: "'We Are Bought Like Clothes:' The War Over Polygyny and Levirate Marriage in South Sudan."
May 2001: Sudan Studies Association Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, Paper presented: "Slave Raids, Migrations and the Era of the Great Wars on the White Nile (1200-1750 A.D.)."
April 2000: Sudan Studies Association Conference, Vassar, New York, Paper presented: "The Ethnicity of Bondage in the Valley of the Upper Nile: Slavery and the Slave Trade through the Eyes of the Possessed."
November 1999: African Studies Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA. Paper presented: "Human Sacrifice, Virgins and River Spirits: Dinka Religion and its Ancient Origins."
June 1999: Sudan Studies Association Conference, Medford, MA. Paper presented: "The Dinka as 'Northern Sudanese' and the Genesis of Intra-Southern Conflict."
November 1997: African Studies Association Conference, Columbus, Ohio. Paper presented: "The Slave Trade, Violence, and Resistance among the Dinka of South Sudan: 1800 to the Present."
June 1997: International Sudan Studies Association Conference, Cairo, Egypt. Paper presented: "Who are the Dinka and Whence do they Come?"
May 1995: Sudan Studies Association Conference, Villanova, Pennsylvania. Paper presented: "Dinka/Baggara Relations Across the Bahr el-Arab River."
November 1994: African Studies Association Conference, Toronto, Canada. Paper presented: "Women's Military and Spiritual Leadership in the Southern Sudan from Pre-Colonial Times to the Modern Day."
April 1994: International Sudan Studies Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts. Paper presented: "Master/Servant Relations During the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium, 1898-1956."
December 1993: African Studies Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts. Paper presented: "Non-acceptance of Islam among the Dinka of South Sudan."
April 1993: Sudan Studies Association Conference, East Lansing, Michigan. Paper presented: "Islam and the Dinka of South Sudan."
April 1992: Northeast African Studies Conference, East Lansing, Michigan. Paper presented: "The Black Hole of Kosti: The Murder of Baggara Detainees in a Kosti Barracks (1956)."