John O. Hunwick

Professor Emeritus, Departments of History and Religion
Phone: (847) 491-7412
Email: j-hunwick@northwestern.edu
Homepage: http://pubweb.northwestern.edu/~jhunwick/

JOHN O. HUNWICK (Ph.D., University of London) is a founding editor of the journal Sudanic Africa: a Journal of Historical Sources, of the Newsletter: Saharan Studies Association, and a co-General Editor of the monograph series Islam and Society in Africa. He is a consultant to the Mamma Haidara Meorial Library in Timbuktu.

His past projects include editing of the Handlist of Arabic Manuscripts in the Nigerian National Archives, the Bulletin of Information: Fontes Historiae Africanae, Catalog of Arabic Manuscripts in the Melville J. Herskovits Library of Africana, and Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire.