Bruce M. Haight

Professor
Ph.D., Northwestern University
West African History: Focus on Islam and Artistic Traditions

Office: 4420 Friedmann Hall
E-mail: bruce.haight@wmich.edu
Phone: (269) 387-5361
HIST 488 History of West Africa Library Research Guide Website:
http://www.wmich.edu/library/handouts/hist488.html

Selected publications:

BMH and Lamidi Fakeye with David Curl, Lamidi Olonade Fakeye: A Retrospective Exhibition and Autobiography (Distributed by the University of Washington Press, 1996, 2nd printing 1999); Ivor Wilks, Nehemia Levtzion and BMH, Chronicles from Gonja: A Tradition of West African Muslim Historiography (Cambridge University Press, 1986). Articles: Teaching History: A Journal of Method; and the American Anthropologist.

Professional Information

Bachelor of Arts

Kalamazoo College

History. Major Advisor: John Peterson

M.A., Ph.D.

Major Field: African History

Major Advisor: Ivor Wilks, and studies under Nehemia Levtzion, Margaret Priestley-Bax, and John Rowe

Minor Field: History of the Middle East: 622 - 1500

Research Related Field: Political Anthropology. Studies under Ron Cohen

Further Study

NEH Summer Institute at the National Museum of African Art under Rene Bravmann and Douglas Fraser (1979)

Professional Achievements

Received the WMU College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Achievement Award for Professional and Community Service (2004)

Elected as Faculty Representative to the Executive Board of CAMP (Cooperative Africana Microfilm Project) of the Center for Research Libraries (2003)

Invited to the "CRL Historians Conference" at the Center for Research Libraries (3/2002)

Chair of the WMU Faculty Senate Library Committee (2001-2003)

Member of the WMU Library Dean's Search Committee (2001-2002)

Curated retrospective exhibitions of Fakeye's sculpture at Hope College (1996) and Western Michigan University (1987)

Field research: Nigeria (1989, 1992, 1996, and 1999); Ghana (1972/3, 1969) and Sierra Leone (1966-7)

Research presentations: African Studies Association; the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies; Obafemi Awolowo University of Ile-Ife, Nigeria; the American Museum of Natural History; and the Art Institute of Chicago

Joint presentations with Fakeye: the National Museum of Natural History/the Smithsonian (1999), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1998); the University of Iowa and Northwestern University (1997); the Indianapolis Museum (1994); et. al.

Chaired a panel and presented on "Africa in the K-12 Classroom: Lessons From the University and Collaboration in Kalamazoo and Battle Creek" at the Michigan Council for the Social Studies Annual Meeting (2/28/2002)