Mary Dillard
BA, Stanford University. MA, PhD, University of California-Los Angeles. Special interests include history of West Africa, particularly Ghana and Nigeria; history of intelligence testing and external examinations in Africa; history of science in Africa; and gender and education. Recipient of a Spencer fellowship and Major Cultures fellowship at Columbia University’s Society of Fellows in the Humanities. SLC, 2001–
Undergraduate discipline: History
Graduate program: Women's History Program
Courses taught in History
- Gender, Education, and Opportunity in Africa
- Ideas of Africa: Africa Writes Back
- Public Stories, Private Lives: Methods of Oral History
- Sickness and Health in Africa

