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Dr. Andrew F. Clark received his Ph.D. in African history from Michigan State University in 1990. His area of specialty is West African history, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has spent several years in West Africa, and has travelled extensively in Africa and Europe. He has published articles in the Journal of African History, Africa Today, Slavery and Abolition, Oral History Review, Journal of Third World Studies, Canadian Journal of African Studies and the International Journal of African Historical Studies as well has having written chapters in several volumes. He is co-author of Historical Dictionary of Senegal and the author of From Frontier to Backwater: Economy and Society in the Upper Senegal Valley (West Africa), 1850-1920 (1999). He is also on the Executive Council of the Association of Third World Studies.

Dr. Clark teaches a variety of courses in African history, including HST 371, "African History to 1800;" HST 372, "Modern Africa (1800-present);" HST 373, "History of Southern Africa;" and HST 374, "History of West Africa," and HST 375, "History of Central and Eastern Africa." He also teaches undergraduate and graduate seminars in African history and African diaspora as well as courses in global history. He teaches the basic global history survey course, HST 103, "Introduction to Global History (since 1500)."