Richard M. Shain

Associate Professor of History and Area Studies

B.A., SUNY Purchase

Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University

e-mail: ShainR@PhilaU.edu
phone: 215-951-6279

 

 

courses: AREAST-202, Latin America
AREAST-208, Africa
JSINT-371, African and Caribbean Visual Cultures

Richard Shain’s teaching experience includes being a history professor in Nigeria as well as teaching at Rutgers. Recent writings focus on the history of leisure time in Africa, the historical relationship between religion and cultural identity, and methodological issues in the historical analysis of spatial processes in Africa..