Richard M. Shain
Richard M. Shain teaches African, Caribbean and Latin American Studies at Thomas Jefferson University. Shain's books include Roots in Reverse Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism, Displacement: A Selected Bibliography and The Spatial Factor in African History: The Relationship of the Social, Material, and Perceptual. He also taught at the university level in Nigeria and Senegal for nearly ten years. He has contributed to multiple journals, including Africa, International Journal of African Historical Studies, Passages and Journal of Religion in Africa.