| Year | Name | Dissertation Title |
| 2019 | OSEI-OPARE, Nana | “The Red Star State: State-Capitalism, Socialism, and Black Internationalism in Ghana, 1957-1966.” |
| 2018 | ANDERSON, Samuel Dejohn | "Domesticating The Medersa: Franco-Muslim Education And Colonial Rule In Northwest Africa, 1850-1960" |
| 2014 | BARDEEN, Regan Buck | "Utilitarian Pleasures: The Production of Literature and the Development of a Reading Public in Southwestern Nigeria, 1880-1980" |
| 2014 | GLEASON, Tiffany | "Coastal Islam: Religion and Identity among Minority Muslims in the French Colonial City of Porto-Novo, 1889-1939" |
| 2014 | OYUGI, Willis Mathews Okech | Wildlife Conservation in Kenyas Maasailand, 1850s-2000: Contested Histories of an African People and their Landscape |
| 2013 | WEISE, Constanze | "Governance and Ritual Sovereignty at the NigerBenue Confluence: A Political and Cultural History of Nigerias Igala, Northern Yoruba and Nupoid-Speaking Peoples to 1900 CE" |
| 2011 | ASSEFA, Shiferaw Alemu | "The Omotic Agricultural System: A Linguistic Approach" |
| 2011 | GULEMA,Shimelis Bonsa | "Urbanizing a Nation: Addis Abba and the Shaping of the Modern Ethiopian State, 1941-1975" |
| 2009 | BETTS, Melissa | "Namibias No Mans Land: Race, Space and Identity in the History of Windhoek Coloureds under South African Rule, 1915-1990" |
| 2009 | CARTER, Tracey | "The Role of Griots in Gambian Political History" |
| 2008 | WELDEMICHAEL, Awet | The Eritrean & East Timorese Liberation Movements: Towards a Comparative Study of Their Grand Strategies |
| 2007 | LEE, Anthony | The Establishment of the Bahai Faith in West Africa: The First Decade, 1952-1962 |
| 2007 | MUSIL, Emily | "La Marianne Noire: How Race & Gender in the Twentieth Century Atlantic World Reshaped the Debate about Human Rights." |
| 2006 | HOPPER, Matthew | "The African Presence in Arabia: the Economic and Cultural Legacy of the African Diaspora in Eastern Arabia and the Gulf, 1840-1940" |
| 2006 | VIEIRA-MARTINEZ, Carolyn | "Building Kimbundu: Language and Community Reconsidered in Western Central Africa ca. 1500-1750" |
| 2003 | BALL, Jeremy | "The Colossal Lie: The Sociedade Agrcola do Cassequel and Portuguese Labor Policy in Angola, 1899-1975" |
| 2003 | EL SHEIKH, Mahmoud | "State, Cloves, and Planters: A Reappraisal of British Colonialism in Zanzibar, 1890-1934" |
| 2003 | MALLOY, Patrick | " Rule by Sindano: A Cultural History of Medicine in Colonial Tanganyika, 1895-1961" |
| 2003 | PFOUTS, Anita | "Economy and Society in Northern Namibia 500 BC to 1800 CE: A Linguistic Approach" |
| 2003 | SHANKAR, Shobana | "Children of the Mission in Kano Emirate: Conflicts of Conversion in Colonial Northern Nigeria, c.1899-1953" |
| 2002 | FOURSHEY, Catherine Cymone | "Precolonial History of Southwestern Tanzania: a linguistic approach" |
| 2002 | FRATES, L. Lloys | "Aesthetics of Power, Power of Aesthetics: Race and Gender in Colonial Loureno Marques, 1932-1974" |
| 2002 | GONZALES, Rhonda | "Continuity and change : thought, belief, and practice in the history of the Ruvu peoples of central east Tanzania, c. 200 B.B. to A.D. 1800" |
| 2002 | SADLER, Katharine | "Trouble Was Brewing: South African Women, Gender Identity, and Beer Hall Protests, 1929 and 1959" |
| 2002 | TEBOH, Brigitte Angum | "Women and Change in the Cameroon Grassfields: A Social and Economic History of Moghamoland c. 1889-1960" |
| 2001 | DILLARD, Mary | "Testing Freedom: A History of the West African Examinations Council, 1952-1979" |
| 2001 | FLINT, Karen | "Negotiating a Hybrid Medical Culture: African Healers in Southeastern Africa from the 1820s to the 1940s" |
| 2001 | MITCHELL, Laura | "Contested terrains : property and labor on the Cedarberg Frontier South Africa, 1725-c.1830" |
| 2000 | ACHEBE, Nwando | "Farmers, Traders, Warriors and Kings: Female Power and Authority in Northern Igboland 1900-1960" |
| 2000 | COLE, Gibril | "Embracing Islam and African traditions in a British colony : the Muslim Krio of Sierra Leone, 1787-1910" |
| 2000 | DESCH-OBI, Thomas J. | "Engolo: Combat Traditions in African and African Diaspora History" |
| 2000 | TAYLOR, Eric R. | "If We Must Die: A History of Shipboard Insurrections during the Slave Trade" |
| 1999 | LAUMANN, Dennis | "Remembering and Forgetting the German Occupation of the Central Volta Region of Ghana" |
| 1999 | RICHARDSON, Marjorie L. | "From German Kamerun to British Cameroons, 1884-1961, With Special Reference to the Plantations"" |
| 1999 | THOMPSON, Brian | "Divided destinies : economic and social change in the partitioned communities of colonial Ghana and Cte dIvoire, 1889-1939" |
| 1998 | MAHONEY, Michael | "Between the Zulu King and the Great White Chief: Political Culture in a Natal Chiefdom, 1879-1906" |
| 1998 | RADCLIFFE, Kendahl | "The Tuskegee-Togo Cotton Scheme, 1900-1909" |
| 1997 | ADEDZE, Agbenyega | "Collector, Collections, and Exhibitions: The History of Museums in Francophone West Africa" |
| 1997 | KLIEMAN, Kairn | "Hunters and Farmers of the Western Equatorial Rainforest: Economy and Society, 3000 BC to AD 1880" |
| 1996 | CURTO, Jose | "Alcohol and Slaves: The Luso-Brazilian Alcohol Commerce at Mpinda, Luanda, and Benguela During the Atlantic Slave Trade, c.1480-1830, and its Impact on the Societies of West Central Africa" |
| 1996 | EDGINGTON, Steven | 'Economic and Social Dimensions of Mission Farms on the Mashonaland High Veld, 1890-1930s" |
| 1996 | MEKENYE, Reuben | "The African Struggle Against South Africa Periphery Imperialism, 1902-1966: The Case of Lesotho" |
| 1995 | AHMED, Christine | "Before Eve was Eve: 2200 Years of Gendered History in East-Central Africa" |
| 1995 | SHUTT, Allison | "'We Are the Best Poor Farmers': Purchase Area Farmers and Economic Differentiation in Southern Rhodesia, c. 1925-1980" |
| 1992 | PHILIPS, John | "Ribats in the Sokoto Caliphate: Selected Studies, 1804-1903" |
| 1991 | MONSON, Jamie | "Agricultural Transformation in the Inner Kilombero Valley of Tanzania, 1840-1940" |
| 1991 | VOLMAN, Daniel | "United States Foreign Policy and the Decolonization of British Central Africa (Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi), 1945-1965" |
| 1990 | GATLIN, Darryle John | "A Socio-economic History of Sao Vicente de Cabo Verde, 1830-1970" |
| 1990 | HAAR, Stephen | "Long Distance Trade, Political Economy, and National Reunification in the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia, c.1800-1900" |
| 1990 | RUBERT, Steven | "You Have Taken My Sweat: Agricultural Wage Labor in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1904 to 1945" |
| 1990 | SCHOENBRUN, David | "Early History in Eastern Africa's Great Lakes Region: Linguistic, Ecological, and Archaeological Approaches, c.500 BC to c.1000 AD" |
| 1988 | HARMON, Stephen | "The Expansion of Islam among the Bambara under French Rule, 1890-1940" |
| 1988 | MCMASTER, Mary | "Patterns of Interaction: A Comparative Ethnolinguistic Perspective on the Uele Region of Zaire, c.500 BC to 1900 AD" |
| 1988 | SHELDON, Kathleen | "Working Women of Beira, Mozambique" |
| 1988 | SSALI, Mike | "The Development and Role of an African Film Industry in East Africa with special reference to Tanzania, 1922-1984" |
| 1987 | LYONS, Maryinez | "The Colonial Disease: Sleeping Sickness in the Social History of Northern Zaire, 1903-1930" |
| 1986 | FERGUSON, Douglas | "Nineteenth Century Hausaland: Being a Description by Imam Imoru of the Land, Economy, and Society of His People" |
| 1986 | GARRARD, Timothy* | "Brass-casting among the Frafra of Northern Ghana" |
| 1986 | GREEN, Allen | "A Political Economy of Moshi Town, 1920-1960" |
| 1986 | LEMELLE, Sidney | "Capital, State, and Labor: A History of the Gold Mining Industry in Colonial Tanganyika, 1890-1942" |
| 1985 | ALI, Mohamed Nuuh | "History in the Horn of Africa, 1000 BC. - 1500 AD: Aspects of Social and Economic Change Between the Rift Valley and the Indian Ocean" |
| 1985 | DISTEFANO, John | "The Pre colonial History of the Kalenjin of Kenya: A Methodological Comparison of Linguistic and Oral Traditional Evidence" |
| 1985 | OWNBY, Carolyn | "Early Nguni History: The Linguistic Evidence and its Correlation with Archaeology and Oral Tradition" |
| 1984 | GOUCHER, Candice* | "The Iron Industry in Bassar, Togo: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of African Technological History" |
| 1984 | HORNE, David | "Mode of Production in the Social and Economic History of Kilwa to 1884" |
| 1984 | MULIRA, Jesse Gaston | "A History of the Mahi Peoples from 1774-1920" |
| 1983 | SHAPIRO, Martin | "Medicine in the Service of Colonialism: Medical Care in Portuguese Africa, 1885-1974" |
| 1982 | LUCHEMBE, Chilufya Chipasha | "Finance Capital and Mine Labor: A Comparative Study of Copper miners in Zambia and Peru, 1870-1980" |
| 1982 | PIRIO, Gregory | "Commerce, Industry, and Empire: The Making of Modern Portuguese Colonialism in Angola and Mozambique, 1890-1914" |
| 1981 | HASKETT, Norman | "Kete-Krakye and the Middle Volta Basin, 1700-1914: Cockpit of African and European Rivalry" |
| 1981 | WAITE, Gloria | "The Indigenous Medical System in East-Central African History" |
| 1980 | HAWKINS, Joye Bowman | "Conflict, Interaction, and Change in Guinea-Bissau: Fulbe Expansion and its Impact, 1850-1900" |
| 1980 | HOLLOWAY, Joseph | "Liberian Diplomacy in Africa: A Study of Inter-African Relations Between 1957 and 1966" |
| 1980 | JOHNSON, Douglas | "History and Prophecy among the Nuer of the Southern Sudan" |
| 1980 | SAXON, Douglas | "The History of the Shari River Basin, c.500 BC - 1000 AD" |
| 1980 | TOUNGARA, Jeanne | "The Pre colonial Economy of Northwestern Ivory Coast and its Transformation under French Colonialism, 1827-1920" |
| 1980 | VOELTZ, Richard | "The Origins and Early Years of the South West Africa Company, Ltd: A Study of a British Concession Company in German South West Africa" |
| 1980 | WILLIAMS, Joy | "The Educated and Professional Elite in the Gold Coast and Sierra Leone, 1885-1914" |
| 1980 | WILSON, Louis | "The Evolution of Krobo Society: A History from c.1400 to 1892" |
| 1979 | KINNER, Joseph | "The Study of the Origins, Development, and Role of Radio Broadcasting in Southern Nigeria, 1923-1951" |
| 1979 | QUINN, Charlotte | "Traditionalism, Islam, and European Expansion: The Gambia, 1850-1890" |
| 1979 | THORNTON, John | "The Kingdom of Kongo in the Era of the Civil Wars, 1641-1718" |
| 1979 | TURNER, Arthur | "A Socio-economic History of Kabwe, 1902-1966" |
| 1978 | KAMUSIKIRI, James | "African Education under the American Methodist Episcopal Church in Rhodesia: Objectives, Strategy, and Impact, 1898-1966" |
| 1978 | LLOYD, David | "The Pre colonial Economic History of the Avongara-Azande, c.1750-1916" |
| 1978 | OKOYE, Felix | "The American Image of Africa, Myth and Reality" |
| 1978 | PAPSTEIN, Robert | "The Upper Zambezi: A History of the Luvale People, 1000-1900" |
| 1978 | WILLIAMS-MYERS, Albert | "The Nsenga of Central Africa: Political and Economic Aspects of Clan History, 1700 to the late Nineteenth Century" |
| 1977 | CHAMBERLIN, Christopher | "Competition and Conflict: The Development of the Bulk Export Trade in Central Gabon during the Nineteenth Century" |
| 1977 | EDGAR, Robert | "The Fifth Seal: Enoch Mgijima, the Israelites, and the Bulhoek Massacre, 1921" |
| 1977 | HERSI, Ali Abdirahman | "The Arab Factor in Somali History: The Origins and the Development of Arab Enterprise and Cultural Influences in the Somali Peninsula" |
| 1977 | MUNTEMBA, Maud Shimwaayi | "Rural Underdevelopment in Zambia: Kabwe Rural District, 1850-1970" |
| 1977 | UDOH, Claton | "Religion and Change among the Annang and Ibibio, 1846-1930" |
| 1976 | ALLYN, David | "The Sabon Gari System in Northern Nigeria, 1911-1940" |
| 1976 | KENNEDY, Phillip | "The Fatal Diplomacy: Sir Theophilus Shepstone and the Zulu Kings, 1839-1879" |
| 1976 | NICOLAS, Gildas | "The Dizzu of Southwest Ethiopia: An Essay in Cultural History based on Religious Interactions" |
| 1976 | NORTHRUP, Nancy | "Southern Malawi, 1860-1891: A Case Study of Frontier Politics" |
| 1976 | OKIHIRO, Gary | "Hunters, Herders, Cultivators, and Traders: Interaction and Change in the Kgalagadi, Nineteenth Century" |
| 1976 | O'SULLIVAN, John | "Developments in the Social Stratification of Northwest Ivory Coast during the 18th and 19th Centuries: From a Malinke Frontier Society to the Liberation of Slaves by the French, 1907" |
| 1976 | WARD, Jennifer | "The Bambara-French Relationship, 1880-1915" |
| 1975 | AIDOO, Agnes | "Political Crisis and Social Change in the Asante Kingdom, 1867-1901" |
| 1975 | BOADI-SIAW, Samuel | "Development of Relations Between Brazil and African States, 1950-1973" |
| 1975 | CUMMINGS, Robert | "Aspects of Human Porterage with Special Reference to Akamba of Kenya: Towards an Economic History, 1820-1920" |
| 1975 | MILLS, George Wallace | "The Role of African Clergy in the Reorientation of Xhosa Society to the Plural Society in the Cape Colony, 1850-1915" |
| 1975 | RASMUSSEN, R. Kent | "Ndebele Wars and Migrations, c.1821-1839" |
| 1975 | STROBEL, Margaret | "Muslim Women in Mombasa, Kenya, 1890-1973" |
| 1974 | BARROWS, Leland | "General Faidherbe, the Maurel and Prom Company, and French Expansion in Senegal" |
| 1974 | MAEL, Rosalind | "The Problem of Political Integration in the Zulu Empire" |
| 1974 | MURRAY, Jocelyn | "The Kikuyu Female Circumcision Controversy: With special reference to the Church Missionary Society's 'sphere of influence'" |
| 1974 | NORTHRUP, David | "Trade Without Rulers: Pre colonial Economic Development in the Biafran Hinterland" |
| 1974 | RAU, William | "Mpezeni's Ngoni of Eastern Zambia, 1870-1920" |
| 1973 | BRANTLEY, Cynthia | "The Giriama Rising, 1914: Focus for Political Development in the Kenya Hinterland, 1850-1963" |
| 1973 | FERREIRA, Roquinaldo Amaral | "Transforming Atlantic Slaving: Trade, Warfare and Territorial Control in Angola, 1650-1800" |
| 1973 | LIPSHUTZ, Mark | "Northeast Sierra Leone after 1884: Responses to the Samorian Invasions and British Colonialism" |
| 1973 | SMITH, Cynthia Brantley | "The Giriama Rising, 1914: Focus for Political Development in the Kenya Hinterland, 1850-1963" |
| 1972 | GESHEKTER, Charles | "British Imperialism in the Horn of Africa and the Somali Response, 1884-1899" |
| 1972 | JACKSON, Kennell | "An Ethnohistorical Study of the Oral Traditions of the Akamba of Kenya" |
| 1972 | RALSTON, Richard | "A Second Middle Passage: African Student Sojourns in the United States during the Colonial Period and Their Influence upon the Character of African Leadership" |
| 1971 | AHANOTU, Austin Metumara | "The Economics of Religion: A Study of the Development of the Igbo Spirit of Enterprise, 1800-1955" |
| 1971 | CHANAIWA, David | "A History of the Nhowe before 1900" |
| 1970 | DUNBAR, Roberta | "Damagaram (Zinder, Niger), 1812-1906: The History of a Central Sudanic Kingdom" |
| 1970 | POUWELS, Randall | "Islam and Islamic Leadership in the Coastal Communities of Eastern Africa, 1700 to 1914" |
| 1970 | SMITH, Alan | "The Struggle for Control of Southern Mozambique, 1720-1835" |
| 1969 | LEGASSICK, Martin | "The Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana, and the Missionaries, 1780-1840: The Politics of a Frontier Zone" |
| 1969 | LYE, William | "The Sotho Wars in the Interior of Southern Africa, 1822-1837" |
| 1969 | WALLENKAMPF, Arnold | "The Herero Rebellion in South West Africa, 1904-1906: A Study in German Colonialism" |
| 1968 | WOLF, James | "Captain Hore's Mission: The London Missionary Society's Adventure at Lake Tanganyika, 1878-1888" |
| 1967 | CASSIDY, Rita | "Britain and Basutoland: A Study of Men and Policies from the Gun War to the Anglo-Boer War" |
| 1967 | QUINN, Eugene | "Changes in Beti Society, 1887-1960" |
| 1959 | HOWARD, Warren | "The United States Government and the African Slave Trade, 1837-1862" |
| 1957 | GAILEY, Harry | "The London Missionary Society and the Cape Government, 1799-1828" |
| 1957 | GREGORY, Robert | "The Doctrine of Native Paramountcy: British Policy in East Africa, 1923-1931" |
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