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Allen Isaacman is an American historian specializing in the social history of Southern Africa. He is currently a Regents Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. In 2015, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Education and career
Isaacman earned his B.A. at the City College of New York in 1964. He next studied African History at the University of Wisconsin under Jan Vansina and Philp D. Curtain, earning an M.A. in 1966 and a PhD in 1970. That same year, he joined the faculty in the Department of History at the University of Minnesota. In 2001, he became a Regents Professor of History at the University of Minnesota.

From 1978 to 1980, Isaacman was the Chaired Professor of Mozambican History at University Eduardo Mondlane, located in Maputo, Mozambique. From 1988 to 1998, he served as the Director of MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program on Global Change, Sustainability and Justice at the University of Minnesota and retained that role, from 1998 to 2011, as the program transitioned to become the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC). Meanwhile, from 1997-1998, he was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the University of Zimbabwe, in Harare, Zimbabwe, while from 2009 to the present, Isaacman has been named an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Western Cape, located in Cape Town, South Africa.

Academic awards and honors
Isaacman awards includes the National Defense and Education Act, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the African Studies Association (ASA), the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the Gulbenkian Foundation Fellowship, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education (Fulbright), the MacArthur Foundation, and the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. His 1972 book, Mozambique: The Africanization of a European Institution, The Zambezi Prazos, 1750-1902, won the Melville J. Herskovits Award as the most distinguished publication on African Studies for the year 1972, while his 2013 book, Dams, Displacement and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965-2007, won both the Herskovits Prize and the Martin Klein award from the American Historical Association (AHA). In 2013, Isaacman received the Distinguished Africanist Award from the African Studies Association.

Editorial Positions and Boards
Isaacman has served as a book editor for multiple presses, including as a Co-Editor of the New African Histories series at Ohio University (2004 to present), as a Co-Editor of the Heinemann Social History of Africa Series (1988 to 2004), as a Co-Editor of "African Economic History" (1984 to 1989), and has also served on a variety of editorial boards, including for the Sage Series on African Modernization & Development (1986 to 1988), for the Garvey and UNIA Papers Project (1985 to 1995), for the University of Minnesota Press (1978 to 1984 and 1993 to 1998), for the American Historical Review (1996-1999), and for the International Journal of African Historical Studies (1999-2004).

Monographs

 * Mozambique: The Africanization of a European Institution, The Zambezi Prazos, 1750-1902 (University of Wisconsin Press, June 1972).
 * The Tradition of Resistance in Mozambique: The Zambezi Valley, 1850-1921 (Heinemann and University of California Press, 1976) Translated into Portuguese in 1979.
 * A Luta Continua: Creating a New Society in Mozambique (Fernand Braudel Center, SUNY, 1978).
 * Co-authored with Barbara Isaacma, Mozambique: From Colonialism to Revolution: 1900-1982 (Westview Press, 1983).
 * Co-authored with Fred Cooper, Florencia E. Mallon, Steve J. Stern, and William Roseberry, Confronting Historical Paradigms: Peasants, Labor, and the Capitalist World System in Africa and Latin America (University of Wisconsin Press, 1993).
 * Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, Work and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique 1938-1961 (Heinemann, 1996).
 * Slavery and Beyond: The Making of Men and Chikunda Ethnic Identity in the Unstable World of South Central Africa, 1750-1920 (Heinemann, 2005).
 * Co-authored with Barbara Isaacman, Dams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and Its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965-2007 (Ohio University Press, 2013)
 * Co-authored with Barbara Isaacman, Samora Machel: A Life Cut Short (Ohio University, Press 2020)

Edited volumes

 * Co-edited with David Wiley, Society, Economy and Politics in Southern Africa (Michigan State University Press, 1982).
 * The Saga of a Cotton Capulana (University of Wisconsin, African Studies Center, 1982).
 * The Life History of Raul Honwana: An Inside View of Mozambique from Colonialism to Independence (Boulder: Lynne Reiner Publishers, 1988) Translated into Portuguese in 1989.
 * Co-edited with Richard Roberts, Cotton, Colonialism and Social History in Sub-Saharan Africa (Heinemann, 1995).
 * Co-edited with Edward Alpers and Benigna Zimba, Slave Routes and Oral traditions in Southeast Africa (Filsom, 2006).