CURRICULUM VITA 

NAME

          Kenneth James Perkins 

HOME ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE

          74 Dinwood Circle

          Columbia, South Carolina 29204

          (803) 782‑5625 

OFFICE ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE 

          223 Gambrell Hall

          Department of History

          University of South Carolina

          Columbia, South Carolina 29208

          (803) 777‑2355

          kp@sc.edu 

DATE OF BIRTH

          March 27, l946 

CITIZENSHIP

          United States 

EDUCATION

          l964‑l968:  Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia.   B.A. with Honors in History.

          1968‑l973:  Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.       M.A. in Near Eastern Studies (l97l); Ph.D. in Near      Eastern Studies (l973). 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

          l972‑l973:  Princeton University, Department of Near Eastern Studies.  Teaching Assistant, Modern Near East and North Africa

          l973‑l974:  McGill University, Institute of Islamic Studies.  Research Associate (Graduate level    instruction on North Africa)

          l974‑    :  University of South Carolina, Department of History.  Assistant Professor (1974‑l98l); Associate Professor (l98l‑1991); Professor (1991- ).

          l982‑l983:  University of Khartoum, Institute of African and Asian Studies.  Visiting Research Associate.  

TEACHING FIELDS

          Modern and Medieval Middle East

          Modern and Medieval North Africa

          The Middle East and the United States

          Islamic Civilization

          Islamic Institutions and Traditions 

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

          l968‑l969:  Princeton University Regional Studies    Fellowship

          l969‑l973:  National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship (NDFL) (Arabic) 

RESEARCH AWARDS

          l97l‑l972:    Fulbright‑Hays Doctoral Dissertation                 Research Abroad Grant.  Utilized in Tunisia,                   Algeria, Morocco, and France.

          l979:    University of South Carolina Research and Productive Scholarship Grant.  Utilized for summer research in the United Kingdom.

          l982‑l983:    Fulbright Islamic Civilization Research Program Grant.  Utilized in Sudan and the United Kingdom.

          l982‑l983:    Fulbright‑Hays Faculty Research Abroad Grant.  To be utilized in Tunisia and France.  (Grant declined in order to accept Fulbright Grant).

          1989:    University of South Carolina Research and Productive Scholarship Grant.  Utilized for summer research in France.

                   1997:     University of South Carolina Research and Productive Scholarship Grant.  Utilized for summer research in United Kingdom. 

OTHER AWARDS

          Robert D. Ochs Award for Service to History Department Graduate Students, 1988. 

BOOKS

     On the Eve of Colonialism:  North Africa Before the French Conquest, l790‑l830.  (New York: Holmes and Meier, l977).  A translation, with annotations, revisions, and an introduction of Lucette Valensi, Le Maghreb avant la prise d'Alger  (Paris: Flammarion, 1969).

     Qaids, Captains, and Colons:  French Military Administration in the Colonial Maghrib, 1844‑l934 (New York:  Holmes and Meier, l98l).

     Tunisia: Crossroads of the Islamic and European Worlds (Boulder, Colorado:  Westview Press, 1986).

     Historical Dictionary of Tunisia (Metuchen, N.J.:  Scarecrow Press, 1989); 2nd edition (1997).

     Port Sudan: The Evolution of a Colonial City (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1993).

     The Maghrib in Question: Essays in the History and Historiography of North Africa (co-editor) (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1997). 

ARTICLES

    "The Bureaux Arabes and the Colons:  Administrative Conflict in Algeria, l844‑l875," in Proceedings of the French Colonial Historical Society, Vol. I, l976, pp. 96‑l07.

    "Pressure and Persuasion in the Policies of the French Military in Colonial North Africa," in Military Affairs, April, l976, pp. 74‑78.

    "North African Propaganda and the United States," in African Studies Review, December, l976, pp. 65‑77.

    "Centennial in Philadelphia," in Aramco World Magazine, November‑December, l976, pp. 8‑l3.

    "North Africa," in Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, Vol. V, l978, pp. l03‑l08.

    "In the Twilight of Imperialism:  Great Britain and the Egyptian Frontier Districts Administration, l9l9‑l939," in Middle East Studies (London), Vol. XVIII, No. 4, October, 1982, pp. 4ll‑425.

     "`The Best Laid Out Town on the Red Sea':  The Creation of Port Sudan, 1904-1909," in Middle East Studies (London), Vol. XXVII, No. 2, April, 1991. pp. 283-302.

     "`The Masses Look Ardently to Istanbul':  Tunisia, Islam, and the Ottoman Empire, 1837-1932," in Islam and Politics in North Africa, ed. by John Ruedy (New York: St. Martin's Press), pp. 23-36.

     "The Transformation of Bizerte, 1881-1913:  The Razing of a Traditional Tunisian Community and the Raising of a Modern French Naval Base," in Revue d'Histoire Maghrébine (Tunis), Vol. XXI, No. 74, May 1994, pp. 53-69. 

ENCYCLOPEDIA AND OTHER REFERENCE ENTRIES

     Approximately eighty-five (1974-2001) in such publications as Encyclopedia Americana Yearbook/Annual; The World Book Encyclopedia; World Encyclopedia of Political Systems and Parties; Historical Dictionary of Napoleonic France, l799‑l8l5; Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World; and Columbia Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East. 

BOOK REVIEWS 

     Approximately one hundred in such journals as International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies; Bulletin of the Middle East Studies Association; American Historical Review; International Journal of African Historical Studies; The Muslim World; African Studies Association Review of Books; Middle East Journal; History:  Reviews of New Books; African Historical Studies; African Book Publishers Review; and others. 

COMMUNITY SERVICE

     Media

          Broadcasts on local TV and radio stations commenting on contemporary developments in the Middle East and North Africa, 1975‑         

     Public Addresses

     Approximately one hundred to church, civic, professional, and student groups throughout the southeast, 1975-