Myron Echenberg

Myron Echenberg is former Chair of the History Department at McGill University, where he is now Professor Emeritus. He is a former editor of the Canadian Journal of African Studies and previously served as President of the Canadian Association of African Studies. Professor Echenberg is the author toon meer of Plague Ports. The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894-1901; Black Death, White Medicine: Bubonic Plague and the Politics of Public Health in Colonial Senegal, 1914-1945; and Colonial Conscripts: The Tiralleurs Sngalais in French West Africa, 1857-1960, which won the Herskovits-Award of the African Studies Association for the outstanding original scholarly work published during 1991. toon minder