African American Studies Department

Gordon Gill

Contact Information

E-mail: gor.gill@oberlin.edu
Phone: (440) 775-8375
Office: King 324
10 North Professor Street
Oberlin, OH 44074

Assistant Professor of African American Studies

Educational Background
B.A. in History, University of Guyana
M.A. and Ph.D. in History, Howard University

Areas of Expertise

Research Interests
Include Caribbean History, History of the African Diaspora, Slavery in the Atlantic World, Pre-Colonial West and West-Central Africa , and Blacks in Great Britain during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries. He is currently preparing a publishable manuscript based on his dissertation entitled Labor, Material Welfare, & Culture in Hydrologic Plantation Enterprises: A Study of Slavery in the British Colony of Berbice ( Guyana ).

Recent Publications and Awards
“Slavery on the Guyanese Frontier,” in The Slave Societies of the Caribbean , 2d ed. Edited by Franklin W. Knight. vol. 3, UNESCO General History of the Caribbean , ( London and Basingstoke : UNESCO Publishing/Macmillan Educational Publishing, Forthcoming)