Doris S. Essah.

EDUCATION:

PhD.    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

MPhil.    University of Ghana

B.A.    University of Ghana

AREA OF SPECIALIZATION

Nationalism

COURSES TAUGHT CURRENTLY:

HIST.111: Earliest Civilizations

HIST. 332: The History of Western Medicine in Ghana

HIST. 433: History of Modern Russia & U.S.A.: 1700-1860

CURRENT RESEARCH:

• African Studies Association November 20-23 2014 “Violence Poverty and Gendered Reconstruction in the Gold Coast Colony”
• Re/framing Slavery, Contemporary Child Labour & Rights, & Abolition and Emancipation Across Time and Space May 23 2014 “Child Labour during the Gold Coast Colonial Rule and Decolonization”
• Faculty of Social Sciences Colloquium, May 16 2014 “Gendered Domestic Work since the Second World War”              
• Pathways to Colonial (and Postcolonial?) Coercion,” January 22 2014 “Gold Coast Communal Labour Construct Roads during the Interwar Years”
• 2^nd Conference on Archeology and Heritage Management in Ghana, September 12 2013 "Elmina’s Cultural Ntakua Hairdressing as National Heritage”.
• German Studies Association October 4-7 2012 “German Missionaries and Germanness in the Gold Coast of Africa during the nineteenth century”
• National Association for Ethnic Studies April 6 2012 “Educating Nkrumah: Conquering Poverty and Mobilizing an Ethnic West Africa Group”
• Eighth Annual Black Diaspora Conference, March 29-30, 2012 “The African Diaspora, African American Emancipation, Christian Intellectual Aggrey of Africa”
• North Carolina Association of Historians March 23 2012 “The Phelps-Stokes Fund’s Africa Education Commission”
• Association of American Geographers February 26 2012 “American Revolution, Methodist Episcopal Religions, Prospects of Intellectual Africans              Constituting a Nation”
• New York African Studies Association NYASA February 25 2012 “America’s Internal Colonial Model and Africa’s Decolonization: Nkrumah’s Role withWomen” 
• African Studies Association November 19 2011 “The Boy Kumasenu: Cultural Symbolism, Urban Nationalism and Masculinity” 
• Researching New York Conference November 18 2011 “Early Modern European March to Asia: The Dutch at New Amsterdam (North America) & Elmina (West Africa)”
• North Carolina Association of Historians Annual Meeting March 25 2011 “The Role of James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey of Africa beyond Slavery of America” 
• African Studies Association November 14 2008 “Transformations in Ghana’s Hairdressing Profession since the 1990s”
• Historical Society of Ghana 2006 “Transforming Hairdressing into a Profession amid Press Representations of Beauty”

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Dissertation: “Fashioning the Nation: Hairdressing, Professionalism and the Performance of Gender in Ghana, 1900-2006.”

Thesis: “Reproductive Health Needs of Junior Secondary School Adolescents in Akropong.”

Long essay: Using Theatre for Extension Communication/Theatre for Development to Convince Residents to Practice Sanitation at Valley Inn, Bubuashie

“School Children Learning about Sex and Love” ed. Christine Oppong, Yaa Oppong and Irene Odotei, in Sex and Gender in an Era of Aids: Ghana at the Turn of the Millennium (Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2006).

”Family Life Education Needs of School Children, A Study in Akwapim Akropong” Institute of African Studies Research Review Vol. 18, No. 1, 2002.