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Judith Byfield

Ph.D., Columbia University, Chair, Women's and Gender Studies Program

Associate Professor of History

Recent Scholarship: The Bluest Hands: A Social and Economic History of Women Indigo Dyers in Western Nigeria, 1890-1940 (Heinemann, Spring 2001). "Taxation, Women, and the Colonial State: Egba Women's Protest in Abeokuta (Nigeria, 1918-1948" Meridians: A Journal of Feminism, Race and Transnationalism, "'Unwrapping' Nationalism: Dress, Gender and Nationalist Discourse in Colonial Lagos", International Journal of African Historical Studies. Guest Editor, "Rethinking the African Diaspora," African Studies Review, Vol. 43, no. 1 (April 2000). "Innovation and Conflict: Cloth Dyers and the Interwar Depression in Western Nigeria," Journal of African History, Vol.38, no.1 (1997).

Interests: Women's Social and Economic History, Women's Activism.

Last Updated: 1/26/06