Bruce S Hall
| Title: | Assistant Professor |
| Office Location: | 127 Carr Building |
| Office Phone: | 919-660-3197 |
| Email Address: | bruce.hall@duke.edu |
Education
- PhD University of Illinois, 2005
Research Interests
My first book is about the development of ideas about racial difference along the West African Sahel. The research for this project was focused in and around the Malian town of Timbuktu. My current research centers on a nineteenth-century commercial network that connected Timbuktu with Ghadames (Libya), and which involved a number of literate slaves as commercial agents.
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- SSRC Book Fellowship, December, 2007
- HISTORY 115A.01, AFR: ANTIQUITY-EARLY MOD
Synopsis
- Carr 229, TuTh 08:30 AM-09:45 AM
- HISTORY 195S.11, JUNIOR-SENIOR SEM SP TOP
Synopsis
- Carr 242, W 01:15 PM-03:45 PM
- HISTORY 89FCS.01, MAKING MUSLIM:ISLAMIC MYSTICIS
Synopsis
- Social Sciences 109, TuTh 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
- HISTORY 363.01, MIGRANTS, MERCHANTS & MVMTS
- Carr 135, Tu 06:00 PM-08:30 PM
Recent Publications
Books in Progress- Bruce S. Hall, The Genealogical State: Race-making and the moral economy of descent in the Niger Bend (northern Mali) (2009).
- Bruce S. Hall, "“Bellah Highwaymen: Slave banditry and crime in colonial northern Mali”" in Ismael Musah Montana, Behnaz A. Mirzai, Paul Lovejoy ed., Islam, Slavery and Diaspora (Africa World Press, 2009), 193-215.
- Bruce S. Hall, "“An early Tuareg anti-colonial manifesto? A local critique of the French occupation of the Niger Bend”" in Seyni Moumouni and Viera Pawlikova-Vilhanova ed., Le Temps des Oulèmas: les manuscrits africains comme sources historiques (Etudes Nigeriens, 2009), 107-47.
- with Charles C. Stewart. "“The historic ‘Core Curriculum,’ and the book market in Islamic West Africa”." The Trans-Saharan Book Trade: Arabic Literacy, Manuscript Culture, and Intellectual History in Islamic Africa (2009).
- B.S. Hall. "“Historiography of Islamic Africa”." New Encyclopedia of Africa. Ed. John Middleton and Joseph Miller Charles Scribner’s sons, 2007.