Lee V. Cassanelli Papers UPT 50 C343

Summary Information

Prepared by

Kaiyi Chen

Preparation date

1998

Date [inclusive]

1974-1992

Extent

1.2 Cubic feet

PROVENANCE

The collection was transferred to the University Archives with the records of the History Department in 1995.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1946, Lee V. Cassanelli earned his B.A. in History from Boston College, his M.A. in African History in 1969 and his Ph.D. in 1973, both from the University of Wisconsin. After teaching one year at Harvard University as Lecturer in History, he was appointed Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania in 1974 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1981. His major publications are The Shaping of Somali Society: Reconstructing the History of a Pastoral People, 1600-1900 (1982) and The Struggle for Land in Southern Somalia: the War Behind the War (co-edited with Catherine Besteman in 1996).

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The Cassanelli Papers consist of files concerning an academic exchange program between Penn and the Ibadan University, Nigeria, from 1985 to 1990, files documenting his activities with the Social Science History Association, and files documenting his work with Penn’s University Press.

Controlled Access Headings

Corporate Name(s)

Ibadan University (Nigeria).

Social Science History Association.

United States Information Agency.

University of Pennsylvania. Press.

University of Pennsylvania. School of Arts and Sciences.

Occupation(s)

Historians–Pennsylvania–Philadelphia.

Subject(s)

History–Study and teaching–Pennsylvania–Philadelphia.

Inventory