 Robert O. Collins, author of Tsehai Publishers new book Civil Wars and Revolution in the Sudan: Essays on the Sudan, Southern Sudan, and Darfur, 1962-2004, is Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB). Educated at Dartmouth College, Balliol College, Oxford, and Yale University he has taught at Williams College, Columbia University, and UCSB for forty years where he served as Dean of the Graduate School (1970-1980) and Director of the UCSB Center in Washington D.C. (1992-1994). He has lectured in numerous American, European, Middle Eastern, and African universities and been a consultant to the Sudan Government, the High Executive Council of the Southern Sudan Regional Government, 1975-1983, and Chevron Overseas Petroleum Inc., 1981-1991. He first went to the Sudan in 1956, a month after independence, and has returned regularly to live, travel widely in every part of the Sudan, and carry out his historical research both in the archives and in the field, particularly the Southern Sudan. |
Between 1962 and 1994 he has published seven histories of the Sudan, Southern Sudan, and the Nile. His most recent books (with Millard Burr) are Requiem for the Sudan: War, Drought, and Disaster Relief, 1983-1993(1994); Africa's Thirty Years War: Chad,Libya, and the Sudan, 1963-1993 (1999); Revolutionary Sudan: Hasan al-Turabi and the Islamist State, 1989-2000 (2003), and The Nile (2002). His latest books, Alms for Jihad: Charities and Terror in the Islamic World with Millard Burr will be published by the Cambridge University Press in spring and Civil Wars and Revolution in the Sudan: Essays on the Sudan, Southern Sudan, and Darfur, 1962-2004 by Tsehai Publishers in Summer. |
