Department of History and Philosophy
College of Liberal Arts

Associate Professor
Email: kofi.r.barima@jsums.edu
Phone: 601.979.2502
Location: Dollye M.E. Robinson Building, Office 349

DEGREES:
Ph.D. – African Diaspora/Caribbean History, Howard University (2009)
M.A. – West African Public History, Howard University (2005)
B.A. – History/Anthropology, Howard University (2001)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Obeah, Maroons
Pan-Africanism
Reggae
Black Power

COURSES TAUGHT:

Undergraduate:
HIST 102: History of Civilization II
HIST 300: Oral History Methodology
HIST 351: Black Resistance in the Atlantic World
HIST 405: Early Africa
HIST 406: Colonial Africa

Graduate:
HIST 550: Oral History
HIST 552: Problems in American History
HIST 590: Thesis

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
Association of Caribbean Historians
African Heritage Studies Association

PUBLICATIONS:

Obeah to Rastafari: Jamaica as a Colony of Ridicule, Oppression and Violence, 1865-1939 Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.10, no.1, March 2017

“Cutting Across Space and Time: Obeah’s Service to Jamaica’s Freedom Struggle in Slavery and Emancipation” in Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.9, no.5, August 2016

“Maritime Marronage” in The Caribbean Slave Routes: Sites of Memory January 24, 2016 (http://slaveroutes.creativejunction.com/maritime-marronage/)

“Caribbean Migrants in Panama and Cuba, 1851-1927: The Struggles, Opposition and Resistance of Jamaicans of African Ancestry” in Journal of Pan-African Studies vol.5, no.9, March 2013

“Militancy and Spirituality: Haiti’s Revolutionary Impact on Jamaica’s Africans and Afro-Creole 1740-1824” WADABAGEI VOL 14: 1-2 Fall 2013

FULL CURRICULUM VITA