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Lee V. Cassanelli Papers

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Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1946, Lee V. Cassanelli earned his B.A. in History from Boston College, his M.A. in African History in 1969 and his Ph.D. in 1973, both from the University of Wisconsin. After teaching one year at Harvard University as Lecturer in History, he was appointed Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania in 1974 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1981. His major publications are The Shaping of Somali Society: Reconstructing the History of a Pastoral People, 1600-1900 (1982) and The Struggle for Land in Southern Somalia: the War Behind the War (co-edited with Catherine Besteman in 1996).

The Cassanelli Papers consist of files concerning an academic exchange program between Penn and the Ibadan University, Nigeria, from 1985 to 1990, files documenting his activities with the Social Science History Association, and files documenting his work with Penn's University Press.

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The collection was transferred to the University Archives with the records of the History Department in 1995.

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania: University Archives and Records Center
Finding Aid Author
Kaiyi Chen
Finding Aid Date
1998

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1985-1988.
Box 1 Folder 1
1988-1990.
Box 1 Folder 2
Agreement, draft, 1981.
Box 1 Folder 3
Re Robert J. Rutman's trip to Nigeria and the Committee report, 1978-1982.
Box 1 Folder 4
1978-1980.
Box 1 Folder 5
1981-1982.
Box 1 Folder 6
1981-1984.
Box 1 Folder 7
1982.
Box 1 Folder 8
1984-1985.
Box 1 Folder 9
1986.
Box 1 Folder 10
1988-1989.
Box 1 Folder 11
1990-1991.
Box 1 Folder 12
1983.
Box 1 Folder 13
1982.
Box 1 Folder 14
1983.
Box 1 Folder 15
1983-1984.
Box 1 Folder 16
1985.
Box 1 Folder 17
1985-1986.
Box 1 Folder 18
1986.
Box 1 Folder 19
1987-1988.
Box 1 Folder 20
Lectures, 1987-1993.
Box 1 Folder 21
Report on the Implementation of the Ibadan/Penn Academic Links Program, 1981-1986.
Box 1 Folder 22
Summer Institute in African Studies, 1983.
Box 1 Folder 23
Summer Institute in African Studies, correspondence, 1982-1983.
Box 1 Folder 24
University of Ibadan, regulations and the publication Orita.
Box 1 Folder 25
USIA grant proposal, 1983.
Box 1 Folder 26
USIA University Affiliation Grant, 1985.
Box 1 Folder 27
Visit to Ibadan University, 1982.
Box 1 Folder 28

Correspondence and annual meeting proposals, 1974-1978.
Box 1 Folder 29
Ethno-history network, 1977-1978.
Box 1 Folder 30
First Annual Meeting Program, 1976.
Box 1 Folder 31
Membership invitation and other material, [1976].
Box 1 Folder 32
Membership mailing list, 1976.
Box 1 Folder 33
Newsletter and miscellaneous, 1975-1976.
Box 1 Folder 34

1983.
Box 2 Folder 1
Report and correspondence re Jim McCann's work.
Box 2 Folder 2
1982.
Box 2 Folder 3
1983-1992.
Box 2 Folder 4

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