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Department of Africana and Latino Studies |
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 Dr. Kathleen O'Mara received her Ph.D. in African History from Columbia University. Her primary areas of teaching and research are African and Near Eastern history and within those fields her research has focused on the economic and cultural history of Islamic West and North Africa. She has published several articles on Saharan Studies and particularly on the Sultanate of Ahir (Niger).She studied at the Bourguiba Institute, Université de Tunis, taught at the Université d'Alger, Faculté des Arts et Sciences Humanities, and received a Fulbright Fellowship to Egypt where she researched the impact of men's emigration on Egyptian women's employment opportunities. Dr. O'Mara is also active in research and writing about gender and sexuality. She has served as Chair of Women's & Gender Studies on this campus and for the past decade & half has edited Phoebe: Gender and Cultural Critiques. In the past few years she has written on Somali youth refugees, imagined communities and new social identities in Ghana , and West African urban history. Phone: 607-436-2593. Email: omarakk@oneonta.edu. |
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