Professor Donald E. Crummey, from University of Illinois Urbana specializes in the history of east and southern Africa since the eighteenth century, especially the Horn of Africa. His current research focuses on state, land, and society in highland Christian Ethiopia since the thirteenth century and environment and social change in twentieth century Ethiopia. Selected publications include “Abyssinian Feudalism?” Past and Present, 89 (1980) 115-38; “Family and Property Amongst the Amhara Nobility,” Journal of African History, XXRV, 2 (1983) 207-20; Land and Society in the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia: From the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000); and, co-edited with Thomas Bassett, African Savannas: Global Narratives and Local Knowledge of Environmental Change (Oxford/Portsmouth, NH: James Currey Publisher and Heinemann USA, 2003). Professor Crummey received his doctorate from the University of London in 1967.