Bridget A. Teboh is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, USA, where she has worked since 2005. She is also an affiliate faculty of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, and Black Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), an MA in African Area Studies from the James S. Coleman African Studies Center at UCLA; a B.A. (Combined Hons.) in English and French from the University of Cameroon, Yaounde, and a D.U.E.F (Diplome d’Université d’Etudes Francais) from Université Jean-Moulin, Lyon III, France.
Prof. Teboh specializes in African History, African American Women’s History, Women’s and Gender studies, and oral history. Her research interests are colonialism, post-coloniality, historical biography, women’s power [ikah-meyi], Politics, historical ethnography, Migration, and African Diaspora. She has won prestigious awards including Ford Foundation, ISOP, and is a three-time Carnegie ADFP award winner. She is Co-Editor: Berghahn Books, Ltd., Oxford, UK, Cameroon Studies Series; Board Member, Pan African University Press (PAUP); and since 2020, a Member of the Editorial Advisory Committee of Spears Books’ new series, Spears Studies in African and African Diaspora History.
Biography
Bridget A. Teboh is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, USA, where she has worked since 2005.