COLLINS, Robert O(akley)

COLLINS, Robert O(akley). American, b. 1933. Genres: History. Career: Williams College, Williamstown, MA, lecturer in history, 1961, assistant professor of history, 1963-65; University of California at Santa Barbara, associate professor, 1965-69, professor of history, 1969-94, emeritus, 1994-. Columbia University, NYC, visiting assistant professor of history, 1962-63; International Academy, Santa Barbara, Board of Dirs., 1968-81; Journal of African Studies, Editorial Board. Publications: The Southern Sudan 1883-1898, 1962; (with R.L. Tignor) Egypt and the Sudan, 1967; King Leopold, England and the Upper Nile, 1968; Land beyond the Rivers: The Southern Sudan 1898-1918, 1971; African History: Text and Readings, 1971; Europeans in Africa, 1971; The Southern Sudan in Historical Perspective, 1975; (with R. Nash) The Big Drops: Legendary Rapids of the West, 1978; Shadows in the Grass: Britain in the Southern Sudan 1918-1956, 1983; The Waters of the Nile: Hydropolitics of the Nile and the Jonglei Canal, 1989; Western African History, 1990; Eastern African History, 1990; Central and South African History, 1990; Problems in African History: The Pre-Colonial Centuries, 1994; Problems in the History of Imperial Africa, 1994; Requieum for the Sudan: War, Drought and Disaster Relief on the Nile, 1994; Africa's Thirty Years War: Chad, Libya, and the Sudan, 1963-1993; The Historical Dictionary of PreColonial Africa, 2001; The Nile, 2002. EDITOR: Sir Richard Burton, The Nile Basin, 1967; Problems in African History, 1968; The Partition of Africa, 1969; Sir Gilbert Clayton, An Arabian Diary, 1969; Problems in the History of Colonial Africa, 1970; (with F. Deng) Britain in the Sudan 1898-1956, 1984. Address: Dept. of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9410, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]