Jean Herskovits
Jean Herskovits | |
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| Born | Jean Frances Herskovits May 20, 1935 |
| Died | February 5, 2019 (aged 83) |
Jean Frances Herskovits (May 20, 1935 – February 5, 2019) was a research professor of history at the
Oxford University
.
Early life and education
Jean Frances Herskovits was born in
Oxford University in 1960, writing her dissertation on freed slaves who returned to Africa and the Lagos Colony.[1]
Career
Jean Herskovits taught at
State University of New York, Purchase, since 1977. Herskovits' thesis, "A Preface to Modern Nigeria: The Sierra Leonians in Yoruba," was written on a 1958 research trip to Nigeria and published in 1965. She was a director of United Bank for Africa from 1998 to 2005 where she also chaired the Board of Trustees of the UBA Foundation. She also served as head of the Nigeria reinvestment project of Citizens Energy Corporation and from 2001 to 2008 was a member of Conoco Phillips’ Nigeria advisory council.[2]
She wrote many articles about Nigeria in publications such as New York Times.
Death
Herskovits died on February 5, 2019, in New York.[3][4]
References
- ^ a b "Guide to the Melville J. & Frances S. Herskovits Papers" (PDF). New York Public Library. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
- ^ "Professor Jean Herskovits". TY Danjuma Foundation. Archived from the original on 14 May 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
- ^ "OBITUARY-Prof. Jean Frances Herskovits Corry (May 1935 – February 2019)". TY Danjuma Foundation. 11 February 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ "Remembering 'Well-Disguised Nigerian' Jean Herskovits". All Africa. 3 March 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
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