This website is no longer updated and has been replaced with a static copy. The Spatial History Project was active at Stanford University from 2007-2022, engaging in dozens of collaborative projects led by faculty, staff, graduate students, post-docs, visiting scholars and others at Stanford and beyond. More than 150 undergraduate students from more than a dozen disciplines contributed to these projects. In addition to a robust intellectual exchange built through these partnerships, research outputs included major monographs, edited volumes, journal articles, museum exhibitions, digital articles, robust websites, and dozens of lightweight interactive visualizations, mostly developed with Adobe Flash (now defunct). While most of those publications live on in other forms, the content exclusive to this website is preserved in good faith through this static version of the site. Flash-based content is partially available in emulated form using the Ruffle emulator.
The Changing World of History in West Africa
This project explores the local social and
political effects
of higher education in West Africa, particularly history
education. It seeks to
chart the integration of universities into networks of
international knowledge
production and the reorientation of intellectual life away from
Europe and
towards regional and global linkages. It particularly examines the
consequences
of decolonization, the economic crises of the 1970s, and the
subsequent imposed
macroeconomic conditionalities on these aspects of intellectual
life.
Former Research Assistant:
Benjamin Diego