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History Department Research Seminar: Professor Barbara Savage (Harmsworth Visiting Professor, Oxford) 'Race, War and Anti-Imperialism in Merze Tate's International Thought.'
Location: OC0.01 (Oculus Building)
Professor Merze Tate (1905-1996), an African American woman, pioneered
in the fields of diplomatic history and international relations during her tenure
at Howard University from 1942 to 1977. Trained at both Oxford and
Harvard, Tate was one of the few black women academics of her generation.
A prolific scholar with a wide-range of interests, her works covered the fields
of disarmament, the diplomatic and political histories of the Pacific, and the
role of railways and mineral extraction industries in the colonization of Africa.
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