Todd Cleveland holds a Ph.D. in African History from the University of Minnesota. His research interests are broadly concentrated around the interactions between Europeans and sub-Saharan Africans during the colonial period and, in particular, labor and social relations between the Portuguese and the indigenous populations in the former’s assortment of African territories. Todd’s research has been focused on the history of diamond mining in Africa, the history of sports on the continent, and the history of tourism in Africa, and features in seven books: Stones of Contention: A History of Africa’s Diamonds (Ohio University Press, 2014); Diamonds in the Rough: Corporate Paternalism and African Professionalism on the Mines of Colonial Angola, 1917-1975 (Ohio University Press, 2015); Following the Ball: The Migration of African Soccer Players across the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1949-1975 (Ohio University Press, 2017); Sports in Africa, Past and Present, co-edited with Tarminder Kaur and Gerard Akindes (Ohio University Press, 2020); A History of Tourism in Africa: Exoticization, Exploitation, and Enrichment (Ohio University Press, 2021); and Alluring Opportunities: Tourism, Empire, and African Labor in Colonial Mozambique (Cornell University Press, 2023); and Africa and the Olympics: Winning Away from the Podium (Ohio University Press, 2024). He is currently working on two book:s: one to assist High School teachers who want to incorporate Africa into their curriculum and another that reconstructs the history of tourism in the Seychelles.
Source: https://history.uark.edu/directory/index/uid/tcclevel/name/Todd+C+Cleveland/
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