Access is granted in accordance with the
Protocols for the University Archives and Records Center.
PROVENANCE
The collection was transferred to the University Archives with the
records of the History Department in 1995.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
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).
SCOPE AND CONTENT
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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