Catherine Higgs
Catherine Higgs is a professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the author of The Ghost of Equality: The Public Lives of D.D.T. Jabavu of South Africa, 1885–1959, and coeditor of Stepping Forward: Black Women in Africa and the Americas, both published by Ohio University Press.
Author of…
Chocolate Islands
Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa
In Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa, Catherine Higgs traces the early-twentieth-century journey of the Englishman Joseph Burtt to the Portuguese colony of São Tomé and Príncipe—the chocolate islands—through Angola and Mozambique, and finally to British Southern Africa.…
Editor of…
Stepping Forward
Black Women in Africa and the Americas
A unique and important study, Stepping Forward examines the experiences of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black women in Africa and African diaspora communities from a variety of perspectives in a number of different settings.…
- Adam Habib
Vice-chancellor and principal of University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa… - Ambreen Hai
Associate professor of English literature and language at Smith College, where she teaches literary theory and Anglophone postcolonial and British literature… - Jane G. Haigh
- Gebreyesus Hailu
Prominent and influential figure in the cultural and intellectual life of Eritrea during the Italian colonial period and in the post-Italian era in Africa… - Horatio Hale
- Jason David Hall
Author of Seamus Heaney’s Rhythmic Contract and editor, with Ashby Bland Crowder, of Seamus Heaney: Poet, Critic, Translator… - Marcus Hall
Senior lecturer in environmental sciences at the University of Zurich and assistant professor of history at the University of Utah… - Margaret Hall
In the Research and Analysis Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London… - Ruth Hall
Senior researcher at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa… - Kristie Hamilton
- Joseph Hanlon
Writer on southern Africa… - Hölger Bernt Hansen
Director of the African Studies Center at the University of Copenhagen… - Lee Hardy
Professor of philosophy at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan… - Philip J. Harold
Assistant professor of political science at Robert Morris University, Pennsylvania… - Patrick Harries
Professor of history at the University of Basel and author of Work, Culture and Identity: Migrant Laborers in Mozambique and South Africa, c. 1860–1910… - H.D. Harrington
- Antony H. Harrison
Professor of English at North Carolina State University… - Wolfram Hartmann
- Lawrence Hass
Professor of humanities at Austin College in Sherman, Texas, where he teaches philosophy and theater arts… - John Hatchard
- Sharon Hatfield
Independent writer and editor whose interests include Appalachian history, literature, and media… - Cynthia L. Haven
- Kevin Haworth
Winner of the Samuel Goldberg Prize for best Jewish fiction and finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Price… - Patricia Hayes
- Jonathan Haynes
Associate professor in the Humanities Division at Southampton College of Long Island University… - Suzette Heald
- Matthew M. Heaton
Assistant professor in the Department of History at Virginia Tech… - Maureen Heffernan
Lead staff person developing the Hershey Children's Garden… - Martin Heidegger
- James D. Henderson
- Derek Heng
Assistant professor of history at the Ohio State University at Marion… - Cynthia Lee Henthorn
- Dean A. Herrin
National Park Service Coordinator… - Jack W. Herring
Director of the Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor University… - Paul Herron
Editor and founder of Sky Blue Press… - Martin J. Hershock
Associate professor of history at the University of Michigan–Dearborn… - Naomi Hetherington
- Edward Hewett
Artist and writer who makes his home on Martha’s Vineyard… - Kathryn Wertheim Hexter
Director of the Ohio Urban University Program at Cleveland State… - Jeanne A. K. Hey
- MaryEllen Higgins
Associate professor of English at the Greater Allegheny Campus of Pennsylvania State University… - Catherine Higgs
Professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville… - Claire Oritz Hill
Independent scholar… - Robert A. Hill
Professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and editor in chief of The Marcus Garvey & Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project in the James S. Coleman African Studies Center… - Anna Hillyar
Native Russian, now resident in England… - D. C. Hindson
- Tom E. Hinson
Curator of contemporary art and photography at the Cleveland Museum of Art… - Evelyn J. Hinz
- Martin Hipsky
Professor of English at Ohio Wesleyan University… - Ufrieda Ho
- Stuart D. Hobbs
Program director for History in the Heartland, a professional development program for middle and high school teachers of history… - Joseph Morgan Hodge
Assistant professor of history at West Virginia University in Morgantown… - Dorothy L. Hodgson
Assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University… - Griff Hogan
Corporate disability consultant with twenty-five years of experience in the field… - Cary Holladay
Author of a novel, Mercury, and two collections of short stories, The People Down South and The Palace of Wasted Footsteps… - Inez Hollander
- Betty Hollow
- John D. Holm
Professor and chairperson of the political science department at Cleveland State University… - Sidney Homan
Professor of English at the University of Florida as well as an actor and director… - Katherine Homewood
Professor of anthropology at University College, London… - Park Honan
- Charles Hood
- William T. Horner
Professor and the director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Political Science at the University of Missouri… - Charles Hornsby
- D. Seth Horton
Born in San Diego and graduated from the University of Arizona with an MFA in creative writing… - Lynn Horton
- Paulin J. Hountondji
Professor of philosophy at the National University of Benin… - James H. Howard
- W. Stephen Howard
Also director of the Institute for the African Child, which he founded to promote progressive development of children and their families across the African world… - Elisabeth A. Howe
- Jennifer L. Howe
Scholar of nineteenth-century American decorative arts with a focus on Cincinnati furniture and metalwork… - W. D. Howells
- Kathy M. Howlett
Author of articles on Shakespeare, film, and Aphra Behn… - Katherine Hoyt
- Jasmin Hristov
Advanced PhD candidate in sociology at York University, Toronto, and Research Associate at the Centre for Research on Latin America… - Mark Hubbard
Professor of history at Eastern Illinois University… - Thomas Hudak
- Ann Hudson
- Jonathan Huener
Co-editor, with Francis R. Nicosia, of Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany: Origins, Practices, Legacies… - Jon Hughes
- Karen Monzel Hughes
Associate dean in the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning and associate professor of design at the University of Cincinnati… - Linda K. Hughes
Author of The Manyfaced Glass: Tennyson’s Dramatic Monologues, New Woman Poets: An Anthology, and, with Michael Lund, The Victorian Serial and Victorian Publishing and Mrs… - Denison B. Hull
Graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard School of Architecture… - John Hulsman
- Bob Hunter
- Donald A. Hutslar
- William Harold Hutt
- Gwen Hyman
Assistant professor of humanities at The Cooper Union in New York City, where she also directs the Center for Writing and Language Arts…
