JOE LUNN
Associate
Professor
African and Modern European History
Social Sciences Department
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Dearborn, MI 48128-1491
Tel.: 313/ 436-9184
Fax: 313/ 593-5645
Home: 1950 Coronada Drive
Ann Arbor, MI
48103
Tel
& Fax: 734/ 741-4465
Email: joelunn@umich.edu
Contents: Professional
Affiliations | Publications | Awards
| Documentaries | Courses
Offered
Education:
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Ph.D., African and Modern European
History (joint degree),
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993. Major professors: Jan Vansina
and George L. Mosse
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B.A., History, University of
Oklahoma, 1973.
Professional
Affiliations:
- African Studies Association
- American Historical
Association
- French Colonial Historical Society/Société
d'Histoire Coloniale Française
- Oral History Association
- Society for French Historical
Studies
Publications:
Books:
- Memoirs of the Maelstrom: A
Senegalese Oral History of the First World War. Social History of Africa Series.
Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann / Oxford: James Currey / Cape Town: David Philip,
1999. (Winner of the 2000 Alfred Heggoy Prize)
- African Voices from the Great War: An Anthology of Senegalese
Soldiers' Life Histories. Forthcoming, University of
Wisconsin Press.
Articles:
- "Male Identity
and Martial Codes of Honor: A Comparison of the War Memoirs of Robert
Graves, Ernst Jünger and Kande Kamara," Journal of Military
History (2004).
- "`Bons soldats' and 'sales nègres': Changing French Perceptions of
West African Soldiers During the First World War," French Colonial
History 1, (2002).
- "`Les Races guerrières:
Racial Preconceptions in the French Military about West Africans During the
First World War," Journal of Contemporary History 34, 4 (October
1999).
- "Kande Kamara Speaks: An Oral History of the West African Experience
in France, 1914-1918," in Africa and the First World War, ed. Melvin E. Page
(London: Macmillan Press, 1987).
Book Reviews in:
- American
Historical Review, International Journal of African Historical Studies,
Journal of Military History
Awards,
Research Grants, and Fellowships:
- Winner of the 2000 Alfred Heggoy Prize of the French
Colonial Historical Society for the best book in French colonial history for the
year 1999.
- Fulbright Senior Scholar Research Grant
(Senegal), 2001
- Faculty Research Grant (Senegal),
University of Michigan-Dearborn, 2001
- Horace H. Rackham Research Grants (Senegal
and France) and Fellowship,
University of Michigan, 2001, 1996, 1995
- Fulbright Doctoral Dissertation Research
Award (Senegal), 1983
- Bourse Chateaubriand, French Ministry of
Culture, (France), 1982
Oral History Archives:
"Senegalese Historical Texts: Transcripts of
Oral Data Collected in Senegal, 1982-83." Unpublished Texts, compiled 1985-86.
Original audio cassettes deposited with the Archives Nationales, Dakar, Senegal;
duplicate cassettes to be deposited with the Archives of Traditional
Music and Folklore, Indiana University.
Publications by Other Authors
Derived from this Archive:
- Svetlana Palmer and Sarah Wallis,
"Empires at War, 1914-1917" in A War In Words:
The First World War. London and New York: Simon and Schuster,
2003.
Documentary
Films:
- "African Voices from the Great
War," documentary film; text by Joe Lunn, in collaboration with and
directed by William Ndiaye, forthcoming.
- Contributor and consultant to "The White
Mans War," segment of Episode 3 of "The Great War and the Shaping of the
Twentieth Century," a KCET/BBC co-production in association with the Imperial
War Museum, 1996. Directed by Blaine Baggett. Aired November 1996; distributed by PBS Home Video.
- Historical
commentator and consultant for "Ailleurs," a French television documentary about
West Africa and the First World War. Directed by Laurent Dussaux and produced
under the auspices of the French Ministry of Culture. Aired November 1984.
Courses
Offered:
Last updated: 28 January 2004
