Professor and Chair

Office: Herter 631
Telephone: (413) 545-2378
Fax: (413) 545-6137
E-mail: jbowman@history.umass.edu

Degree: Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles (1980).
Fields of interest: Africa, especially Portuguese Africa, political, economic

Professional Activities
Her publications include articles on Guinea-Bissau, which have appeared in the Journal of African History, Current Bibliography of African Affairs, and the Revista Internacional de Estudos Africanos. Her book, Ominous Transition: Commerce andColonial Expansion in the Senegambia and Guinea, 1857-1919, was published in 1997.