Melvin Eugene Page

Background

Melvin Eugene Page was born on March 25, 1944, in Fresno, California, United States, to Eugene Bailey Page and Emma Alice (Tallman) Hook.

Education

In 1966, Page received a Bachelor of Arts from American University in Washington. In 1968, he received a Master of Arts from Howard University in Washington and Doctor of Philosophy from Michigan State University in 1977.

Career

Dr. Page had previously taught at the Murray State University of Kentucky. He was also Fulbright Lecturer in History at Chancellor College of the University of Malawi, assistant professor and associate professor at Murray State University, Visiting Associate Professor of History at Kenyatta University in Kenya, and Fulbright Professor of History at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. He is now an Africa section co-editor of 1914-1918- online, International Encyclopedia of the First World War. He retired from East Tennessee State University in 2011 after twenty-four years of service in the History Department.

Achievements

• Melvin E Page is best known as a historian and author, who has received research grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Fulbright Visiting Scholars Program, and was Pew Faculty Fellow in International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He was a founding editor of H-Africa, the H-Net discussion forum for Africa.

Works

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  • Colonialism

    (The most exhaustive reference work available on this crit...)

    2003
  • A Short Guide to Writing About History

    (An ideal complement for any history course, A Short Guide...)

    2001
  • The Chiwaya War: Malawians In The First World War

    (This book focuses on the great War's effect on Africa in ...)

    2019
  • Distinguished Conduct: An African Life in Colonial Malawi

    (Distinguished Conduct recounts a Malawian msilikali’s lif...)

    2019
  • Africa and the First World War 1987
  • Your Body is Your Best Doctor!: Formerly, Health Versus Disease 1972
  • Degeneration, regeneration 1977

Membership

Page was a member of the African Studies Association, American Historical Association.

Connections

On January 20, 1966, Page married Sandra Anne Allen, but they divorced in 1974. On February 2, 1980, he married Patricia Sue Phillips.

Page has three children: Michael Eugene and Melanie Sandra Page Yates from the first marriage, and Megan Alene from the second.

Father:

Eugene Bailey Page Hook

Mother:

Emma Alice (Tallman) Hook

Daughter:

Melanie Page

Daughter:

Megan Page

Son:

Michael Page

Wife:

Patricia Sue Phillips

ex-wife:

Sandra Anne Allen

References

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