Dr. Apollos Nwauwa, Associate Professor and Director of Africana Studies (Ph.D., Dalhousie University, Canada, 1993).  Dr. Nwauwa has previously taught at Rhode Island College and Brown University, both in Providence, Rhode Island.  His primary research focus has been on modern Africa, especially colonial, post-colonial (neo-colonial) and intellectual aspects of African history.  His earlier works significantly extended the discourse on the Aro of Southeastern Nigeria who, through their trading oligarchy, dominated the slave trade in West Africa in the seventeenth century.  Dr. Nwauwa is the author of Imperialism, Academe, and Nationalism: Britain and University Education for Africans, 1860-1960 (London: Frank Cass, 1997), which examines the politics of the surprisingly long history of African demand for university education (and institutions) to which the British finally agreed, after World War II, having opposed the same ideas for almost a century.  Dr. Nwauwa has also contributed many chapters in books on diverse topics on African studies as well as published articles in several refereed international journals including Anthropos (Germany), Cahiérs D'Études Africaines (France), Africa Quarterly (India), Journal of Asian and African Studies (Israel), History in Africa (USA), Canadian Journal of African Historical Studies (Canada), Ife Journal of History (Nigeria), and International Journal of African Studies (USA).  Currently, Dr. Nwauwa is working on a number of projects, including the Privatization and Corporatization of University Education in Post-Colonial Africa; and the Impact of the Cold War on Education and Elite Formation in Africa.