Dr John Parker
BA PhD (London)
Overview
- Name:
- Dr John Parker
- Email address:
- jp23@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4635
- Fax:
- 020 7898 4699
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 305
- Office Hours:
- Term 2 - Mondays 9am-12pm
Biography
John is Senior Lecturer in the History of Africa and Head of the Department of History at SOAS. He is the author of ‘Making the Town: Ga State and Society in Early Colonial Accra’, ‘Tongnaab: The History of a West African God’ and ‘African History: A Very Short Introduction’. He is currently researching a book on the history of death and burial in Ghana and is editing ‘The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History’ with his colleague Richard Reid.
Current Committee Membership
- Governing Body
- Academic Board
- Arts & Humanities Faculty Board
- Learning & Teaching Quality Committee
Teaching
Courses Taught
- H270 Society and Culture in Twentieth-Century Africa
- H379 Asante, the Gold Coast and the British, 1807-1935 (I)
- H479 Asante, the Gold Coast and the British, 1807-1935 (II)
- Islam, Christianity and Indigenous Religion in West Africa, 1800 to the Present
PhD Students supervised
- BUSHIDI Cecile Feza, Mwomboko: Performing Historical Narratives of Kenya between 1920s and today.
- Shantelle George, African Indentured Labourers and their Descendants in Grenada and St. Lucia: Belief, Identity and Memory, c.1836-2011
Research
Urban History; Coastal History; North-South cultural flowsExpertise
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Available for
- Briefings
- Special Study Programmes
Regional Expertise
- Africa
Country Expertise
Languages
Publications
Authored Books
Parker, John (2007) African History: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press.
Parker, John (2005) Tongnaab: The History of a West African God. Indiana University Press.
Parker, John (2000) Making the town: Ga state and society in early colonial Accra. Heinemann.
Book Chapters
Parker, John (2005) 'Tongnaab and Nana Tongo in the Religious Landscape of Twentieth-Century Ghana.' In: Hansen, J and van, R, (eds.), Religious Modernities in West Africa. UNSPECIFIED.
Parker, John (2000) 'The cultural politics of death and burial in early colonial Accra.' In: Anderson, D and Rathbone, R, (eds.), Africa's Urban Past. James Currey, pp. 205-221.
Parker, John (1998) 'Mankraloi, Merchants and mulattos: Carl Reidorf and the politics of "race" in early colonial Accra.' In: Jenkins, P, (ed.), The Recovery of the West African Past: African Pastors and African History in the Nineteenth Century. Basler Afrika Bibliographien, pp. 31-47.
Articles
Parker, John (2006) 'Northern Gothic: Witches, Ghosts and Werewolves in the Savanna Hinterland of the Gold Coast, 1900s-1950s.' Africa, 76 (3). pp. 352-80.
Parker, John (2004) 'Witchcraft, Anti-Witchcraft and Trans-Regional Ritual Innovation in Early Colonial Ghana: Sakrabundi and Aberewa, 1889-1910.' Journal of African History, 45 (3). pp. 393-420.
