Scopas S. Poggo

Professor Poggo is originally from the Kuku people of the Southern Sudan. He began his studies in the United States in 1990, after having been a student in the Sudan and in England. He received his Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1999. He joined the faculty in the Department of African American and African Studies and the Ohio State Mansfield campus in the Fall of 1999. He has taught Introduction to African American and African Studies, as well as the sequences in African-American and African History sequences.

Professor Poggo's primary research focus is the first civil war in the Sudan, 1955-1972. He has also done research on the political and social history of the Kuku people of the Sudan. His publications include "The First Sudanese Civil War: Africans, Arabs, and Israelis in the Southern Sudan, 1955-1972": New York: Palgrave Macmillan, February 2009."General Ibrahim Abboud's Military Administration in the Sudan, 1958-1964: Implementation of the Programs of Islamization and Arabization in the Southern Sudan," Northeast African Studies, 9, 1 (Michigan State University Press, 2007); "The Origins and Culture of Blacksmiths in Kuku Society of the Sudan, 1797-1955," Journal of African Cultural Studies (SOAS, University of London; Francis & Taylor, 2006):"The Politics of Liberation in the Southern Sudan: The Role of Israel, African Heads of State, and Foreign Mercenaries, 1967-1972," The Uganda Journal, 47 (The Uganda Society, 2002); "Kuku Religious Experiences in the Sudan and in Exile in Uganda, 1900-1972" in Gray, Richard Fadl, Hassan (eds.), Religion and Conflict in the Sudan 1(Nairobi: Africana Publishers, 2001): "Azande Reaction to Foreign Penetration, 1860-1890" in Spaulding, Jay and Beswick, Stephanie (eds.,The White Nile Black Blood: From Khartoum to Kampala (Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea Press/Africa World Press, 2000).

Professor Poggo is the recipient of the Seed Grant from the College of Humanities at The Ohio State University in 2001. He also received the 2002 College of Humanities Diversity Enhancement award.