Professor
Frederick Cooper
New York University
Historian; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
History
Elected
2001
A distinguished specialist on African history who has published extensively on labor in different times and places. Wide-ranging, innovative, theoretically sophisticated, and balanced, his writings have explored the relationship of social and political movements in recent African history, the colonization and decolonization of Africa, and the importance of empire in world history.