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Sandra E. Greene is the Stephen '59 and Madeline '60 Anbinder Professor of African History at Cornell University, affiliated with the College of Arts and Sciences and the History Department. She is also a core faculty member at the Institute for African Development.
Research Focus: Dr. Greene’s work spans four decades, emphasizing gender and ethnic relations in precolonial West Africa, the impact of religious beliefs, warfare, and slavery in 18th-19th century Ghana, and biographical reconstructions of ordinary and extraordinary individuals from southeastern Ghana. Her methodological innovations include historical linguistics, oral traditions, literary close-reading, and interdisciplinary insights from anthropology and psychology.
Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications (2003-2017) reveal thematic clusters in slavery’s legacy, oral historical methodology, and comparative analysis of master-slave dynamics. These works engage with
- West African religious and cultural practices
- 19th-century Ghanaian enslavement experiences
- transatlantic abolitionism
- modern child slavery legacies
Scientific Recognition:
- 2003 Herskovits Prize Finalist
- 1997 Herskovits Prize Honorable Mention
- 2008 Conover-Porter Prize for editorial excellence
- Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Member of Ambrosiana Academy (Milan, Italy)
Dr. Greene actively contributes to global slavery scholarship through edited volumes and is a key figure in bridging historical and contemporary African master-slave relations.
