Jay L. Spaulding

Jay Spaulding is a historian of Northeast Africa, with a special interest in the Sudan. A medievalist by background, he writes most frequently about the precolonial age. He teaches at Kean University in Union, New Jersey, USA, and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Bergen, Norway, the University of Khartoum, Sudan, and at Michigan State University and Columbia University in the United States. He lived in the Sudan for extended periods during the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to his writings about the Sudan, he has helped to compile textbooks used by the General Education program at Kean University, and by the Senior Seminar that serves as the capstone course for the History Department's undergraduate degree program.