Allan Cooper
Dr. Allan Cooper teaches courses on the presidency as well as courses on constitutional law and international law. He is the author of eight books related to international human rights, as well as numerous articles on domestic and international policy. He has served as a consultant to the U.S. State Department in helping them train ambassadors to Africa.
He has conducted research in dozens of countries and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to teach international law and politics at Kazan State University in Russia. His research has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council for International Educational Exchange, the American Council of Learned Societies and the American Political Science Association.
Education
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Ph.D. |
Atlanta University |
1981 |
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M.A. |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
1976 |
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B.A. |
University of Oklahoma |
1974 |
Research and Professional Work
Dr. Cooper’s research focus has been on the transformation of political identities, especially in environments undergoing revolutionary change. He has engaged in field work to study the Ovambo of Namibia, the Imazighen of Morocco and Tunisia, the Roma of Hungary and Czech Republic, aboriginal communities in Australia, indigenous peoples of China and Taiwan, Muslims of Kashmir, Tatars in Russia and the African diaspora in Cuba.
Publications
- The Shadow That Lingers: What Slavery Teaches Us About Freedom (forthcoming 2023)
- Africa and the Global System of Capital Accumulation, co-editor with Dr. Emmanuel Oritsejafo (London: Routledge, 2021) Nominated for African Studies Association/African Studies Review Prize for Best Africa-Focused Edited Collection of 2021.
- Patriarchy and the Politics of Beauty (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019)
- The Geography of Genocide (Lanham: University Press of America, 2009)
- Ovambo Politics in the Twentieth Century (Lanham: University Press of America, 2001)
- The Occupation of Namibia: Afrikanerdom's Attack on the British Empire (Lanham: University Press of America, 1991)
- Allies in Apartheid: Western Capitalism in Occupied Namibia. editor (London: Macmillan Press, 1988). Distributed in North America by St. Martin's Press)
- U. S. Economic Power and Political Influence in Namibia. 1700-1982 (Boulder: Westview Press, 1982)
- Nominated for Research Achievement Award, National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, Washington, D.C., 1983 (London: Routledge, 2019 – new edition)
Selected Articles
- “From Slavery to Genocide: The Fallacy of Debt in Reparations Discourse” Black Studies (March 2012)
- “For the Herero Genocide: Defining the Limits of International Litigation,” African Affairs (August 2006)
- "The Institutionalization of Contract Labor in Namibia," Journal of Southern African Studies.