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Getz, PhD
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
San Francisco State University, Department of History
Professor
July 2011-Present
Concurrent positions:
Chair, Department of History
(University) Director of Special Programs in Undergraduate Studies
Chair, Academic Senate
(University) Director of General Education
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
EDUCATION
University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies
Department of History
PhD, African History
April 2006
January 2006
August 2004
July 2003
August 2001
July 2001
May 1998
April 1998
July 2015
NEH, Expressions and Transformations of Gender, Family, and Status in East and Central Africa,
500-1800 CE
2017-2018
Co-PIs Catherine Cymone Fourshey, Rhonda Gonzales, Christine Saidi. Advisory board member.
Exchanges, vol.1: A reader in global history to 1500, Prentice Hall, 2008. (with Jarbel Rodriguez
and Richard Hoffman).
Exchanges, vol.2: A reader in global history 1500 present, Prentice Hall, 2008. (with Jarbel
Rodriguez and Richard Hoffman).
Slavery and Reform in West Africa, Athens: Ohio University Press and James Currey, 2004.
Whose world history?: A Forum, lead author with Patrick Manning, Jerry Bentley, and Chris
Chekuri, World History Connected, Fall 2010.
The Success of Sharing Societies: lessons from history, The History Compass, 2007 (5).
Going global I: A reconnaissance into the role of Africanists in world history, World History Bulletin,
22, 2006, 4-9. (With Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia).
Re-evaluating the colonization of Akyem Abuakwa: Amoako Atta, the Basel Mission, and the Gold
Coast courts, 1867-1887, Ghana Studies, 6, 2003: 163-180.
Mechanisms of slave acquisition and exchange in late 18th century Anomabu: Reconsidering a
cross-section of the Atlantic Slave Trade, African Economic History, 31, 2003: 75-89.
The Case for Africans: The Role of Slaves and Masters in Emancipation on the Gold Coast, 18741900 Slavery and Abolition, 21, 2000: 128-145.
A Somewhat Firm Policy: The Role of the Gold Coast Judiciary in Implementing Slave
Emancipation, 1874-1900, Ghana Studies, 2, 1999: 97-117.
Articles under development
Africa in the World: History and Historiography, commissioned article for digital and print
publication in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, Oxford University Press, 2017.
Men, masculinities, and the abolition of slavery in the Gold Coast
Can we write a peoples history of the Fante Confederation?
Chapters in published works
Interpreting Gold Coast Supreme Court Records, SCT 5/4/19: Regina (Queen) vs. Quamina
Eddoo, in African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade, edited by Martin Klein, Sandra Greene,
Alice Bellagamba, and Carolyn Brown, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Epilogue: Almost home: Forgetful Memories and Getting the Stories Right, in African World
Histories, Vol. I, Transatlantic Africa: 1440s-1888, authored by Kwasi Konadu. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2013.
From African History to African histories: Teaching interdisciplinary method, philosophy, and ethics
through the African history survey, Teaching Africa in the 21st Century Classroom, edited by
Brandon Lundy, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013.
World History and the Rainbow Nation: educating values in the United States and South Africa ,
in, Remembering Africa and its Diasporas, edited by Audra Diptee and David Trotman, New York
and London: Continuum Books, 2012.
Teaching world history at the college level: Works in progress, in A Companion to World History,
edited by Douglas Northrup, Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Gore at the Confluence of the Atlantic, Saharan, and Sahelian Worlds, 1677-1890, in Places of
Encounter, edited by Aran and Elaine MacKinnon, Westview, 2012.
British courts, slave-owners, and child slaves in Post-Proclamation Gold Coast, 1874-1899, in
Child Slaves in the Modern World, edited by Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller,
Athens: Ohio University Press, 2011.
World history and global publics: notes from conversations with Jerry Bentley, in forthcoming
volume in honor of Jerry Bentley edited by Alan Karras and Laura Mitchell.
The Claims Women Make: Slavery, marriage, and the colonial courts in late nineteenth century
Gold Coast Colony and Protectorate in forthcoming volume co-edited with Rebecca Shumway to
be published by Bloomsbury Press.
Completed bibliographies
World History from North America, with Candice Goucher, Craig Lockard, and David Kinkela.
Commissioned chapter, in NOGHWISTO world history bibliography.
Shorter scholarly contributions
Claiming shame and respectability: the courtroom testimony of nineteenth century Gold Coast
women, in West African Research Association Newsletter, 2014 (forthcoming).
Writing Abina and the Important Men, in Ghana Studies Association Newsletter, 24 (2011), 5.
Eunuchs, for the New Encyclopedia of Africa, New York: Scribner Press.
Ounce Trade and Coffle in Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage, Westport: Greenwood Press.
Online (non-juried) publications
Africans: People, Art, History, Monsoon: The Magazine of the African Commune, March 6, 2005,
(http://www.theafricancommune.com/article.php3?id_article=1295)
Reconceptualizing African Art, The African Commune, March 6, 2005,
(http://www.theafricancommune.com/article.php3?id_article=1296) Reprinted by David Norden,
leading African Art valuator, at (http://users.telenet.be/african-shop/reconceptualisation.htm).
An Empire, If You Can Keep It, History News Network, March 15, 2003
(http://hnn.us/articles/1313.html); cited in the Nation Institutes Tom Dispatch,
(http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?pid=521)
Conference Keynotes and invited featured talks
Northeastern University Graduate Student Conference
March 2017 (forthcoming)
Topic TBD
Tyler Symposium at the College of William and Mary
October 2015
The Claims Wives Made: the entanglement of slavery and marriage in post-emancipation Gold
Coast, 1874-Present
Northwest/California World History Association
March 2015
Keynote: Locating Empire in the Individual and the Individual in Empire: Imperial Claims Made by
Colonial Subjects
Southeast World History Association
October 2012
Keynote workshop: Abina Mansah, Africa, and World History
New England Regional World History Association
September 2012
Keynote: Africa in World History: Making Connections
San Francisco State University, Graduate Student Conference
April 2012
Keynote: History and Critical Theory: From the margins?
Presentations and panels at professional conferences
Teagle Faculty Planning and Curriculum Conference, New York
January 2016
October 2013
July 2013
Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving Port, Robin Law, in The Historian, 69, 2007,
314-316.
The History of Ghana, Roger Gocking, H-West-Africa Reviews, December 2005.
'Kola is God's Gift': Agricultural Production, Export Initiatives and the Kola Industry of Asante and
the Gold Coast, c. 1820-1950, Edmund Abaka, in The American Historical Review, 111, 2006, 935936.
Fighting the Slave Trade, Sylviane Diouf, ed., in International Journal of African Historical Studies,
38 (1), 2005: 161-163.
The History of Ashanti Kings and the Whole Nation Itself, A. Adu Boahen et al., in International
Journal of African Historical Studies, 37 (3), 2004: 543-546.
Culture and Customs of Ghana, Steven J. Salm and Toyin Falola, in African Studies Review, 46 (2),
2003: 99-101.
From Chains to Bonds, Doudou Dine, ed., in Africa, 72 (3), 2002: 509-510.
Ethnicity in Ghana, Carola Lentz and Paul Nugent, eds., in African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal
African Society, 101, 2002: 449-451
Transformations in Slavery, 2nd Edition, Paul Lovejoy, in The English Historical Review, 117, 2002:
404-406.
Kings and Queens of West Africa, Sylviane Anna Diouf, for H-AfrTeach, H-Net Reviews, April, 2001.
Douala: Middlemen of the Cameroons River, Ralph Austen and Jonathan Derrick, in Journal of
Maritime History, 2000.
Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa. Martin Klein, in Africa,70 (1), 2000: 313-315.
Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade, Boubacar Barry, in Africa, 69 (4), 1999: 660-662.
Radio interviews: Living Room (KPFA) on the Journeys of Reconciliation program, Power FM (XFM)
on African History
SERVICE
Service to the CSU system
Council of Campus Academic Senate Chairs
Academic Senate representative to the Academic Council on International Programs
San Francisco State University
Academic Senate
Chair
Member at large, Executive Committee
Vice-Chair, Academic Senate
Academic Senator
Chair, Academic Policies Committee
Member, Academic Policies Committee
University Strategic Planning Coordinating Committee (SPCC)
Co-Chair, SPCC (with President Les Wong)
Faculty Representative
Co-chair, Academic Master Plan subcommittee
Coordinator, Teagle Faculty Learning Community
University Faculty Athletic Representative (Division II NCAA)
Emerging Leader cohort
Instructionally Related Activities (IRA) Advisory Board
Presidents Task Force on Strategic Enrollment Management
University Corporation, Board of Directors
Chair
Member
University Bookstore, Board of Directors
Presidents Marketing Council
Director of General Education
Presidential Search, Campus Advisory Committee
Elected faculty representative (one of three)
Member, university search committee, Associate Vice-President for CEL
WASC Steering Committee (campus-wide)
Paul K. Longmore Center for Disability Studies, Board member
(University-wide) Student Success Initiative
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