Barbara M Cooper

Barbara Cooper studied African history, anthropology, and Hausa language at the African Studies Center of Boston University, where she received her Ph.D. in 1992. Her articles on Maradi's history have appeared in Journal of African History, African Economic History, and Signs. She has taught at the University of Florida and Bryn Mawr College and is now an assistant professor at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her current research focuses upon Muslim women's...See more

Barbara Cooper studied African history, anthropology, and Hausa language at the African Studies Center of Boston University, where she received her Ph.D. in 1992. Her articles on Maradi's history have appeared in Journal of African History, African Economic History, and Signs. She has taught at the University of Florida and Bryn Mawr College and is now an assistant professor at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her current research focuses upon Muslim women's negotiation of space and upon the history of a Protestant minority community in Maradi. See less