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About the Authors: John Rankin is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at East Tennessee State University. His interests lie in the overlapping themes of imperialism, transnational and global studies, issues of race and racism and the social history of medicine. His monograph, Healing the African Body (University of Missouri Press, 2015) examines the intersection of health, race, and empire in British West Africa, 1800-1860. His research interests also include the Atlantic World, British history, public health, the press and the history of epidemic disease. He teaches courses in the history of medicine as well as English, Scottish, Caribbean and World history.
Constanze Weise is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at East Tennessee State University. Her interests lie in the History of Africa and the African Diaspora pertaining to issues of politics, religion, ritual and urbanization. Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes such as African Arts, The Canadian Journal of African Studies, the Oxford Handbook of Nigerian History and the Oxford Encyclopedia of African Historiography: Methods and Sources. In 2010 she participated in the internationally touring exhibition curated by the UCLA Fowler Museum and the Musée du quai Branly, Paris, titled “Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley”. She contributed to this exhibition with original video footage and images of ancestral masquerades from her field research in central Nigeria. At ETSU she teaches courses in the history of Africa, the African Diaspora and World History.