Dr. Jeremy Rich

Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies

CONTACT INFORMATION
Email: jrich@mtsu.edu
Office: Peck Hall 274
Address: Box 23, History Department, MTSU
1301 E. Main Street, Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Phone: 615-898-2574
Fax: 615-898-5881

EDUCATION
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Ph.D., History, June 2002
Thesis: "Eating Disorders: A Social History of Food Supply and Consumption in Colonial Libreville, 1840-1960."  Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Phyllis Martin
Major Field: African history. Minor Fields: Modern West European history, African Studies
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. M.A., History, 1994
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. B.A. with Honors, History, 1993

TEACHING
Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN. Associate Professor, Dept. of History, 2007-
Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN. Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. of History, 2006-2007
University of Maine at Machias, Machias, ME. Assistant Professor (tenure track), Dept. of History, 2005-2006
Cabrini College, Radnor, PA. Assistant Professor (term contract), Dept. of History, 2002-2004
Colby College, Waterville, ME. Visiting Instructor, Dept. of History, 2001-2002

SELECTED SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Central Africa subject editor, Dictionary of African Biography (Oxford University Press), 2009-
Conference Co-Chair, Holocaust Committee, Middle Tennessee State University, 2009-
President, Mid-American Alliance for African Studies, 2008-2009
Invited participant and speaker, Seminar on Gabon and São Tomé and Principe, co-sponsored by the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the U.S. Department of State and the National Intelligence Council, Arlington, Virginia, October 2007
Coordinator, Southeast Regional Seminar on African Studies, 2007-
Founder and list editor, H-French-Colonial listserv, 2004-
Editorial Board Member, French Colonial History, 2004-
Country Specialist (Gabon), Central Africa Country Specialist Group, Amnesty International USA, 2003-2007
List editor, H-Africa electronic news list, November 2001-

BOOKS
Co-editor with Carina Ray, Navigating African Maritime History (St. John's: Memorial University of Newfoundland Press, 2010)
A Workman is Worthy of His Meat: Food and Colonialism in the Gabon Estuary (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007)

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
"Searching for Success: Boys, Family Aspirations, and Opportunities in Rural Gabon, ca. 1900-1940," Journal of Family History (forthcoming)
"Rocky Rapids and Broken Oars: River Travel, Commercial Rivalries, and Political Divides in Oskar Lenz's Gabonese Voyages, 1874-1877," Canadian Journal of History (forthcoming)
"Cruel Guards and Anxious Chiefs: Fang Masculinities and State Power in the Gabon Estuary, 1920-1960," Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines (forthcoming)
“Savage Frenchmen: Masculinity and the Timber Industry in Colonial Gabon, ca. 1920-1960,” Afrique et Histoire 7 (2009), 235-264.
"An American Sorcerer in Colonial Gabon: Politics and the Occult in Richard Lynch Garner's Gabonese Narratives, 1905-1908," African Historical Review 40:2 (2008), 62-83.
"Manhood, State Power, and Scandals in the Gabon Estuary, 1940-1946," Outre-Mers 360-361 (2008), 192-208.
"After The Last Slave Ship, The Sea Remains: Mobility and Atlantic Networks in Gabon, c. 1860-1920," Atlantic Studies 4:2 (2007), 153-172.
"Hunger and Consumer Protest in Colonial Africa during World War I: The Case of the Gabon Estuary, 1914-1920," Food, Culture, and Society 10:2 (2007), 239-260.
"Maurice Briault, Andre Raponda Walker, and the Value of Missionary Anthropology in Colonial Gabon," Le Fait Missionnaire 19 (2006), 71-95.
"My Matrimonial Bureau: Masculine Concerns and Presbyterian Mission Evangelization in the Gabon Estuary, ca. 1900-1915," Journal of Religion in Africa 36:2 (2006), 200-223.
"Forging Permits and Failing Hopes: African Participation in the Gabonese Timber Industry, ca. 1920-1940," African Economic History 33 (2005), 147-171.
"Civilized Attire: Dress, Cultural Change and Status in Libreville, Gabon, ca. 1860-1914," Cultural and Social History 2:2 (2005), 189-214.
"Troubles at the Office: Clerks, State Authority, and Social Conflict in the Gabon Estuary, 1920-1945," Canadian Journal of African Studies 38:1 (2004), 58-87.
"Une Babylone Noire: Interracial Unions in Colonial Libreville, c. 1870-1914," French Colonial History 4 (2003), 145-170.
"'I hope that the government does not forget my extraordinary services': Urban Negotiations and Welfare in Libreville (Gabon), 1937-1950," Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 3:3 (2002) URL:muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_colonialism_and_colonial_history/v003/3.3rich.html
"King or Knave?: Fellix Adende Rapontchombo and Political Survival in the Gabon Estuary," African Studies Quarterly 6:3 (2002) URL:web.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v6/v6i3a1.htm
"Leopard Men, Slaves, and Social Conflict in Libreville (Gabon), c. 1860-1879," International Journal of African Historical Studies 34:3 (2001), 619-638.

BOOK CHAPTERS
"Unsteady is the Cross: Catholic Missionaries, Catechists, and the Perils of Christian Living in the Gabon Estuary, ca. 1914-1945," in Historiographie du Gabon, Etat des lieux et travaux en cours, edited by Clotaire Messi Me Nang (Paris: Karthala, forthcoming)
"Marcel Lefebvre in Gabon: Revival, Missionaries, and the Colonial Roots of Catholic Traditionalism," in Sarah Curtis and Kevin Callahan (eds.), Encountering French History (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), 53-83.
"Libreville: Die Stadt der Freien," in Fotofieber: Bilder aus West- und Zentralafrika Die Reisen von Carl Passavant 1883-85, edited by Juerg Schneider, Ute Roeschenthaler, and Bernhard Gardi (Basel: Christoph Merian Verlag Basel, 2005), 163-176.
"Where Every Language is Heard: Senegalese and Vietnamese Migrants in Colonial Libreville, 1860-1914," in African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective, edited by Steven Salm and Toyin Falola (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2005), 191-212.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS
"Oumar Bongo Ondimba," "Pascaline Bongo Ondimba," "Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza," "Leon Mba," "Andre Raponda Walker," "Jean-Hilaire Aubame" "Jean-Baptiste Ndende," "Cecilia Fatou-Berre," "Felix Adande Rapontchombo," "Onanga Oyembo," "Jean Mbadinga," and "Albert Schweitzer." Entries in Dictionary of African Biography (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
"Central African Republic: History," "Gabon: Cultural Expression," "Gabon: Daily Life," "Gabon: Economy," and "Gabon: Modern History." Entries in World and Its Peoples, Set 5, Volume 1 (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
"African Families in the Early Colonial Era." Entry in World History Encyclopedia, vol. 7, 1750-1914 (New York: ABC-Clio, forthcoming)
"Libreville." Entry in The City and Urban Life, edited by Jan Rogozinski (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, forthcoming)
"Central African Republic: Geography and Economy" and "Gabon: History and Politics." Entries for New Encyclopedia of Africa, edited by John Middleton and Joseph Miller (New York: Thomson, 2008), 340-342, 424-427.
"Famine in Africa," "Gabon," and "Manioc."  Entries in Encyclopedia of the Modern World, edited by Peter Stearns (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 41-42, 267-269, 411.
"The Scramble for Africa" and "African Colonial Cities and Towns." Entries in Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450, edited by Thomas Benjamin (New York: Macmillan, 2007), 245-249, 996-998.
"Libreville." Entry in Encyclopedia of Antislavery, Abolition, and Emancipation, edited by Peter Hinks (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2007), 432-434.
"Gabon." Entry in Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Africa, edited by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and Dickson Eyoh (London: Routledge, 2003), 231-233.
"Starving in Plenty and in Poverty: Famine in the Gabon Estuary, 1916-1926." Boston University, African Studies Working Paper 239, 2001
"We Eat Out Of The Same Pot: Poison, Food and Power in Colonial Libreville, c. 1865-1921." Mots Pluriels 15 (September 2000). URL:www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels

UNDER REVIEW
"Chimpanzees in the Colonial Maelstrom: Struggles over Knowledge, Race, and Commodities in the Gabonese Primate Trade, c. 1850-1940," book chapter for Toyin Falola and Gertie van der Haar (eds.), Science and the Environment in Africa (University of Rochester Press, forthcoming)
"American Masquerades of African Empire: Gender and Race in the Gabonese Travel Narratives of Richard Lynch Garner and Ida Vera Simonton, 1906-1930," under review with Gender and History
"'Tata otangani, oga njali, biambie!': Hunting and Colonialism in Southern Gabon, ca. 1890-1940," under review with Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
"White Coronations and Magical Boycotts: Political Strategies, Clan Leaders, and French Rule in Coastal Gabon, 1870-1920," under review with International Journal of African Historical Studies
"Torture, Homosexuality, and Masculinities in French Central Africa: The Faucher-d'Alexis Affair of 1884," under review with Historical Reflections

WORKS IN PROGRESS
Appalachian Dreams of African Glory: A Mountain South Intellectual in Colonial Africa, 1892-1919, a monograph on Richard Lynch Garner's life in Fernan Vaz (Gabon)

AWARDS AND GRANTS
DAAD (German American Academic Exchange Service) Faculty Learn German in Germany Grant, July 2008
Faculty Research and Creative Projects Committee Summer Research Grant, Middle Tennessee State University, June-July 2008
Tomlin Fund Award, Society for Nautical Research (UK), Spring 2008
College of Liberal Arts, Middle Tennessee State University, Funding for Liberal Arts Grant-Writers Grant, January 2008 Graduate School, Middle Tennessee State University, Travel Grant, January 2008
Curriculum Integration Grant, President's Commission on the Status of Women, Middle Tennessee State University, Summer 2007
Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, June-August 2007
Faculty Research and Creative Projects Committee Summer Research Grant, Middle Tennessee State University, June-August 2007
Certificate for Recognition, Outstanding Refugee Work, Amnesty International USA, April 2005
Summer Faculty Development Research Grant, Cabrini College, May 2004
Wolfington Center Community Engagement and Outreach Award, Cabrini College, April 2004
South Eastern Pennsylvania Consortium for Higher Education Global Curriculum Grant, 2002-2003 and 2003-2004
Professional Travel Grant, Colby College, Department of History, 2001
Fulbright Dissertation Research Fellowship, Institute of International Education/U.S. Department of State (Gabon), 1999-2000
Foreign Language Area Studies Grant (Arabic), U.S. Department of Education, 1995-1996
Summer Pre-Dissertation Research Travel Grant (Africa), Social Science Research Council, 1995
Summer Pre-Dissertation Research Travel Grant, Indiana University, Office of International Programs (Central African Republic), 1995

LANGUAGES:
English and French (fluent); German (reading); Fang (intermediary); Spanish and Omyene (rudimentary)