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Lorelle Denise Semley (born 1969) is an American historian of Africa specialized in modern West Africa, French imperialism, gender, and the Atlantic World. She is a professor of history at the College of the Holy Cross.

Career

Semley completed a B.S. in French at the Georgetown University School of Languages and Linguistics in 1991. Her undergraduate advisors included Gwendolyn Mikell and David Johnson. She earned a M.A. in African Studies at Yale University in 1995. Semley's interest in history and African studies was furthered graduate courses she took by Robert Harms, Angelique Haugerud, Christopher Miller, and Diana Wylie. Semley completed a M.A. (1996) and Ph.D. (2002) in History at Northwestern University. Her dissertation was titled Kétu Identities: Islam, Gender, and French Colonialism in West Africa, 1850s-1960s. Semley's doctoral advisor was John Hunwick.

Semley was an assistant professor in the history department at Wesleyan University from 2003 to 2011. She was chair of the African studies cluster from 2008 to 2010. She joined the faculty at the College of the Holy Cross in 2011 where she was a professor in the history department. Semley taught courses in Africana studies, peace and conflict studies, and gender, sexuality, and women's studies. Semley joined the faculty at Boston College in 2023 as the new director of the institution's African and African Diaspora Studies program. She specializes in modern West Africa, French imperialism, gender, and the Atlantic World.

In 2020, Semley became the editor-in-chief of History in Africa, a scholarly journal of the African Studies Association.

Selected works

• Semley, Lorelle D. (2011). Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass: Gender and Colonialism in a Yoruba Town. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-00488-8. OCLC 695996375.
• Semley, Lorelle (2017). To be Free and French: Citizenship in France's Atlantic Empire. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-10114-2.

References

1. ^ "CV". Retrieved 2021-09-10.
2. ^ Semley, Lorelle Denise (2002). Kétu Identities: Islam, Gender, and French Colonialism in West Africa, 1850s-1960s (Ph.D. thesis). Northwestern University. OCLC 51797823.
3. "BC welcomes new faculty".
4. "Lorelle D. Semley | College of the Holy Cross". www.holycross.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
5. Reviews of Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass:
   • Korieb, C.J. (September 2011). "Review". Choice Reviews. 49 (1): 181. eISSN 1943-5975. ISSN 0009-4978.
   • Willis, John Thabiti (August 2013). "Review". Africa. 83 (3): 529–530. doi:10.1017/S0001972013000405. ISSN 0001-9720. JSTOR 24525597. S2CID 147087107.
   • Ogunyankin, Grace (2013). "Review". African Studies Quarterly. 13 (1): 140–141. eISSN 2152-2448.
   • Allman, Jean (2013). "Endurance and Vulnerability". The Journal of African History. 54 (2): 309–311. doi:10.1017/S0021853713000480. ISSN 0021-8537. JSTOR 43305123. S2CID 161285956.
   • Byfield, Judith A. (December 2012). "Review". H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online. ISSN 1538-0661.
   • Renne, Elisha P. (2011). "Review". The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 44 (3): 471–473. ISSN 0361-7882. JSTOR 23267215.
6. Reviews of To be Free and French:
   • Heath, Elizabeth (October 2018). "Review". The American Historical Review. 123 (4): 1290–1291. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhy037. ISSN 0002-8762.
   • Zimmerman, Sarah (October 2018). "Lorelle Semley, To Be Free and French: Citizenship in France's Atlantic Empire". European History Quarterly. 48 (4): 771–773. doi:10.1177/0265691418805350z. ISSN 0265-6914. S2CID 149962228.
   • Filippello, Marcus B. (September 2018). "Review". African Studies Quarterly. 18 (1): 128. ISSN 2152-2448.
   • Rossignol, Marie-Jeanne (2019-07-03). "Review". Slavery & Abolition. 40 (3): 629–630. doi:10.1080/0144039X.2019.1640411. ISSN 0144-039X. S2CID 201386650.
   • Reese, T.M. (February 2018). "Review". Choice Reviews. 55 (6): 747. eISSN 1943-5975. ISSN 0009-4978.

External links

• Lorelle D. Semley's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)

• Living people
• 1969 births
• Historians of Africa
• American Africanists
• American women historians
• African-American historians
• African-American women academics
• American women academics
• 21st-century African-American academics
• 21st-century American academics
• Wesleyan University faculty
• College of the Holy Cross faculty
• Georgetown University College of Arts & Sciences alumni
• Yale University alumni
• Northwestern University alumni
• 21st-century American women writers
• 21st-century American historians
• 21st-century African-American women writers
• 21st-century African-American writers
• 20th-century African-American academics
• 20th-century American academics
• 20th-century African-American women