Ron Lamothe
Professional Title: Assistant Professor of History
Areas of Academic Focus and Expertise:
African history; Northeast African history; Sudanese history; military slavery; Scramble for Africa; British Empire; Africa in film
Area of Work and Concentration at Lesley: African and world history
Representative List of Recent Courses Taught:
World Civilizations I & II; Africa in the 19th & 20th Centuries; Field Studies in the Humanities; Africa in Film
Education: BA, Tufts University; MA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; PhD, Boston University
Representative List of Recent Publications / Exhibitions:
- Slaves of Fortune: Sudanese Soldiers and the River War, 1896–1898 (James Currey Press, 2011)
Ron is also a filmmaker whose documentaries The Political Dr. Seuss and The Call of the Wild have been screened worldwide at film festivals and broadcast nationally on PBS.