Department of History
Staff Information
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Robin Law |
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| B.A., Ph.D., F.R.Hist.S., F.B.A., F.R.S.E. Professor |
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University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA UK |
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Tel: + 44 (0) 1786 467583 | |
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Fax: + 44 (0) 1786 467581 | |
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Email: r.c.c.law@stir.ac.uk |
| About |
| Robin Law has degrees from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham. He joined the Department in 1972 having held posts at the universities of Lagos and Birmingham. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Rijksuniverseit Leiden 1993-94, and a Visiting Professor at York University, Canada, 1996-97 and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2000-01. He was promoted to a Personal Chair in 1993. |
| Research |
| His chief research interests are in the history of pre-colonial West Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade. He is the author of The Oyo Empire, c.1600-1836 (1977), The Horse in West African History (1980), The Slave Coast of West Africa, 1550-1750 (1991), The Kingdom of Allada (1997) and Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving 'Port', 1727-1892 (2004), a contributor to the Cambridge History of Africa and the Oxford History of the British Empire, and a former editor of the Journal of African History. His current projects include the publication of source materials for the history of the West African coast in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. He is also engaged in an international collaborative research project on The Slave Trade of the Nigerian Hinterland 1650-1900, which he co-cordinates with Professor Paul Lovejoy (York University, Canada) and Dr Elisee Soumonni (National University of Benin, West Africa). |
| Teaching |
| His main teaching responsibilities are for modules HIS9E4, HIS9V6 and HIS9R7. |
