Matthew M. Heaton Curriculum Vitae November 2015 University Home Department of History (0117). 5131 Cherokee Hills Dr. Virginia Tech, Major Williams Hall, Rm 409 Salem, VA 2415 220 Stanger St. Office: 540-231-8361 Blacksburg, VA 24061 Home: 540-761-0503 E-MAIL: mheaton@vt.edu Fax: 540 231-8724 Employment 2014 present Associate Professor, Department of History, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. 2008-2014 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. Education B.A. (History), 2002; M.A. (History), 2004; PhD (African History), 2008, University of Texas at Austin. Honors, Awards, and Grants National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar: Race and Mental Health in History and Literature. 2015-16. ($89,424) Virginia Tech Faculty Humanities Fellow, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. Worked with representatives of the University of Virginia and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities to develop a program of humanities research related to the theme, Mental Health and Social Change, 2013-14. Humanities Summer Stipend, Virginia Tech, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, 2013-14 ($4,000). Certificate of Teaching Excellence, Virginia Tech, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, 2012-13. Dean s Faculty Fellowship, Virginia Tech, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, 2012-13 ($14,796). Niles Research Grant, Virginia Tech, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, 2012-13 ($2,000). Fellow of the National History Center s Seminar on Decolonization, sponsored by the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress and the Mellon Foundation, Summer 2011. Publications Books: Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of Psychiatry. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2013. A History of Nigeria. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. (co-authored with Toyin Falola) Health Knowledge and Belief Systems in Africa. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2008. (coedited and provided introduction with Toyin Falola) 1
HIV, Illness and African Well-Being. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2007. (co-edited and provided introduction with Toyin Falola) Traditional and Modern Health Systems in Nigeria. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2006. (coedited and provided introduction with Toyin Falola) Endangered Bodies: Women, Children and Health in Africa. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2006. (co-edited and provided introduction with Toyin Falola) Articles and Chapters: "HIV/AIDS and African Health Systems." In Africa, vol.3: Africa since Independence, edited by Toyin Falola. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, forthcoming. "Health and Medicine in Colonial Society." In Africa, vol.2: Colonial Africa, edited by Toyin Falola. Durham, NC: Carolina Acdemic Press, forthcoming. "Health and Medicine in Pre-Colonial Africa." In Africa, vol.1: Pre-Colonial Africa, edited by Toyin Falola. Durham, NC: Carolina Acdemic Press, forthcoming. Elder Dempster and the Transfer of Lunatics in British West Africa. In Beyond the State: The Colonial Medicine Service in British Africa, edited by Anna Greenwood, pp. 104-25. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. Contingencies of Colonial Psychiatry: Migration, Mental Illness, and the Repatriation of Nigerian Lunatics, Social History of Medicine 27, no.1. (2014): 41-63. Aliens in the Asylum: Immigration and Madness in Gold Coast, Journal of African History, 54, no.3 (2013): 373-91. T.A. Lambo and the Decolonization of Psychiatry in Nigeria. In Science and Empire: Knowledge and Networks of Science in the British Empire 1850-1970, edited by Joseph M. Hodge and Brett Bennett, 275-96. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Globalization, Health and the Hajj: The West African Pilgrimage Scheme, 1919-1938. In HIV/AIDS, Illness, and African Well-Being, edited by Toyin Falola and Matthew M. Heaton, 243-67. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2007. Global Explanations versus Local Interpretations: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19 in Africa. History in Africa 33 (2006): 155-78. (with Toyin Falola) The Works of A.E. Afigbo: An Historiographical Essay. History in Africa 33 (2006): 205-30. (with Toyin Falola) The Press, Politics and Historical Memory: The Influenza Pandemics of 1918 and 1957 in Lagos Newspapers. In Traditional and Modern Health Systems in Nigeria, edited by Toyin Falola and Matthew M. Heaton, 161-78. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2006. African Cities and the Globalization of Disease: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19. In Urbanization and African Cultures, edited by Toyin Falola and Steven J. Salm, 433-49. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2005. Afigbo s Scholarship: An Introduction. In Myth, History and Society: The Collected Works of Adiele Afigbo, edited by Toyin Falola, 1-19. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2005. (with Toyin Falola) Introduction: Afigbo on the Igbo. In Igbo History and Society: The Essays of Adiele Afigbo, edited by Toyin Falola, 1-16. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2005. (with Toyin Falola) Introduction. In Nigerian History, Politics and Affairs: The Collected Essays of Adiele Afigbo, edited by Toyin Falola, 1-14. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2005. (with Toyin Falola) 2
Encyclopedia Entries "Dr. Thomas Adeoye Lambo." In Yoruba Encyclopedia, edited by Toyin Falola. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, forthcoming. "Psychiatry. In Yoruba Encyclopedia, edited by Toyin Falola. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, forthcoming. Book Reviews: Amster. Ellen J. Medicine and the Saints: Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014. Reviewed in Islamic Africa 5, no. 2 (2014): 117-20. Thomas, Martin. Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire. Oxford, OUP, 2014. Reviewed in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, 52, no.4 (2014): 674. Prince, Ruth J. and Rebecca Marsland, eds. Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014. Reviewed in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 52, no.1 (2014): 113. Giles-Vernick, Tamara and James L.A. Webb, Jr., eds. Global Health in Africa: Historical Perspectives on Disease Control. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2013. Reviewed in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 51, no.11 (2013): 2019. Anderson, Warwick Deborah Jenson, and Richard C. Keller, eds. Unconscious Dominions: Psychoanalysis, Colonial Trauma, and Global Sovereignties. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. Reviewed in Bulletin of the History of Medicine 86, no.2 (2012): 287-9. Becker Felicitas and P. Wenzel Geissler, eds. Aids and Religious Practice in Africa. London: Brill, 2009. Reviewed in H-Net Reviews (December, 2009). Richard C. Keller, Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Reviewed in Itenerario 32, no.3 (2008): 113-4. Conference Presentations Transcultural psychiatry, decolonization and nationalism: comparisons between Nigeria and India, presented at Psychiatry and Other Cultures: A Historical Perspective, held at the Museum for the History of Psychiatry, Reggio Emilia, Italy, September 26, 2015. Decolonizing, Nationalizing, and Globalizing the History of Psychiatry: From Colonial to Cross-Cultural Psychiatry in Nigeria, presented at From International to Global: Knowledge, Diseases and the Postwar Government of Health conference, sponsored by the Globhealth research group and the European Research Council, Paris, France, 12-14 February 2015. "Development Politics and Radical Islam in Nigeria: Boko Haram in Historical Perspective," presented at the Rudolph C. Barnes Symposium: Legitimacy and Changing Economies, University of South Carolina, School of Law, Columbia, SC, 14 November 2014. The Travellers Guide to Mecca, the Glorious, by way of England : The Pilgrimage of Muhaman Dikko, Emir of Katsina, in 1339 AH (1921 CE), presented at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, held in Baltimore, MD, 21-23 November, 2013. Performing the Hajj in Colonial Nigeria: The Pilgrimages of Muhaman Dikko, Emir of Katsina, 1921-1933, presented at Beyond the Boundaries: Toyin Falola and African 3
Historiography conference held at University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 11-12 October 2013. Nationalizing the Hajj: Pilgrimage Control in Nigeria, 1926-63, presented at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, held in Philadelphia, PA, November 29 December 1, 2012. Traditional Healers and Modern Psychiatry in Nigeria, 1954-79, presented at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association held in Washington DC, Nov. 17-19, 2011. Race, Urbanization, and Mental Illness in Historical Perspective, presented at the conference on Disease and Development in the Global City, held at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, Oct. 6-8, 2011. The Modernization of Madness and the Madness of Modernization: Conceptualizing the Decolonization of Psychiatry in India, 1947-1970, presented at the Sixth Annual Seminar on Decolonization held in the Library of Congress and sponsored by the National History Center, the Kluge Center of the Library of Congress and the Mellon Foundation, Washington, DC, Aug. 3-5, 2011. Nigerian Psychiatrists and the Cultural Politics of Schizophrenia, 1955-89, presented at the conference on Africa in World Politics held the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, March 25-27, 2011. It Would Be in the Best Interests of the Patient if He Could Be Returned to His Country of Origin : Mental Illness and Repatriation in the Nigerian Diaspora, presented at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association held in San Francisco, CA, Nov. 18-21, 2010. Transnational Networks of Black Psychiatry, 1945-1979, presented at the Gender Networks Symposium held at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, Nov. 15, 2010. From Colonial to Cross-cultural Psychiatry in Nigeria: The Evolution of Brain Fag Syndrome, presented at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association held in New Orleans, LA, Nov. 19-22, 2009. The History of Psychiatry as World History presented at the Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Southeast World History Association held at Roanoke College, Salem, VA, Oct. 29-31, 2009. History and Politics of Nigerian Psychiatry: The Case of Brain Fag in Nigeria, presented at the Southeast Regional Seminar for African Studies (SERSAS) conferences held at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, Oct. 2-3, 2009. Culture Bound Syndromes in Historical Perspective: The Case of Brain Fag in Nigeria, presented at Concepts of Health and Disease, Workshop 3: Culture-bound Syndromes held at the University of Lancaster, Lancaster, UK, July 7, 2009. T.A. Lambo and the Decolonization of Psychiatry in Nigeria, presented at the African Intellectuals and Decolonization conference, University of Ohio, Athens, Ohio, Oct. 2-4. 2008. Invited Presentations "African Studies in the United States: Directions and Connections," National Library of Sudan, Khartoum, Sudan, 25 June 2014. ASPECT Book Authors Roundtable,Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 2 December 2014. "Ebola and Boko Haram: Geopolitical Implications for West Africa," ASPECT on Geopolitics: 4
The Return of Geopolitics?, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 22 October 2014. "The History of Psychiatry in Nigeria: Implications for Cross-Cultural Psychology," Association of Black Psychologists, Virginia Tech Chapter, Blacksburg, VA, 17 September 2014. "Historical Reflections on Cross-Cultural Psychiatry in Nigeria," Virginia Tech, Psi Chi Induction Ceremony, Blacksburg, VA, 30 April 2014. "Discussant," Grand Rounds Lecture Series, School of Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, DC. (March 13, 2014). "Black Skin, White Coats," Visible Scholarship Initiative, CLAHS, University Libraries, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. (January 23, 2014). Nigerian Pilgrimages to Mecca, Washington & Lee University, 7 March 2012. Historical Reflections on Cross-Cultural Psychiatry in Nigeria, Roanoke College. Psi Chi Induction Ceremony, Salem, Virginia, 2 April 2011. The Globalization of Mental Illness: Examples from Nigeria, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia 9 March 2011. Courses Taught Graduate Topics in Global History: Teaching World History Readings in African History: Africa and Africans in World History Undergraduate Sociocultural Topics: Ends of Empire in Africa and Asia Age of Globalization Health and Illness in African History Independent Study: The African Doctor in Historical Perspective Independent Study: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19 in World History Africa in the Modern World Critical Issues in World History Historical Methods History of the Modern World What is Health? (Interdisciplinary, team-taught health humanities course) Professional Service Editor, African Histories and Modernities. Book series. Palgrave/Macmillan, 2013-present Program Committee of African Studies Association, 2010 Departmental Service Interim Director of Graduate Studies, Fall 2013 Search Committee (Middle East), Member, 2013-14 Teaching Review Committee, Member, 2013-14 Executive Committee, Member, 2011-12, 2014-15 Search Committee (HIST/ASPT Europe/Asia), Member, 2011-12 Academic Advisor, 2011 - present Research Committee, Member, 2010 2014, chair 2013-14 Graduate Committee, Member, 2009 present 5
Undergraduate Committee, Member, 2008-09, 2015 College/University Service Dean s Advisory Committee on International Initiatives, Member, 2012-13 Faculty Fellow for Virginia Tech South Atlantic Humanities Program, 2013-14 6