Marcus Filippello

Associate Professor, History

Education

PhD, University of California-Davis, 2010
MBA, University of Missouri, 1997

Teaching Interests

Sub-Saharan Africa
Global environmental history
Pan-Africanism

Research Interests

Sub-Saharan African history (especially Benin)
Environmental history
History of development

Selected Publications

Filippello, Marcus. The Nature of the Path: Reading a West African Road University of Minnesota Press. 2017.

Filippello, Marcus. “Settling Ohori: Reassessing Rebellion, Gender, and Foundation 'Myths' in Colonial Dahomey" Journal of West African History 3.1 (2017): 55-76.

Filippello, Marcus. “Roads of Joy, Pathways of Anger: Emotional Responses to Landscape of Mobility” Landcapes of Mobility: Culture, Politics and Placemaking Ed. Sen, Arjit H., and Johung, Jennifer N.Ashgate. (2013): 165-184.