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Edna Bay is Associate Professor in the
Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts,
Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA. Trained as a historian of
Africa, she is
best known for her work on gender in Africa, including Wives
of the Leopard;
Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey (University
Press of
Virginia, 1998) and her edited volume Women in Africa: Studies
in Social and
Economic Change (Stanford Univ. Press, 1976).
She has recently begun to do comparative work on gender and
religion in the Black Atlantic world, and has
edited a volume entitled Rethinking the African Diaspora: The
Making of a Black
Atlantic World in the Bight of Benin and Brazil (Frank Cass,
2001). In spring
semester 2001, she was in residence at the Centre for Gender
and Development
Studies at UWI Mona as a Fulbright researcher/lecturer. In conjunction
with
CGDS, she has been funded by the Fulbright Commission for a
linkage project
between Emory University's Institute for Women's Studies and
CGDS to be
implemented in 2003-05.
Edna G. Bay
c/o ILA
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
tel. 404-727-4224
ebay@emory.edu
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