Isaacman, Barbara S.

Allen F. Isaacman, Regents Professor of History at the University of Minnesota and Extraordinary Professor at the University of Western Cape, is the author of seven books, including "Mozambique: The Africanization of a European Institution", The Zambezi Prazos, 1750-1902 (winner of the Melville J. Herskovits Award for the most distinguished publication in African Studies, 1972) and "Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, Work, and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique 1938-1961" (Herskovits Award finalist, 1997). He has won fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations, among o...