Instructor: BYRON CANNON

BYRON CANNON

Byron Cannon is professor emeritus of history at The University of Utah. He has a PhD from Columbia University, an MA in Middle East Regional Studies from Harvard, and a BA from Antioch College. His major fields of specialization have been Middle Eastern African, and World History. Other appointments include a research professorship under the Centre
National de Recherche Scientifique in Lyon,France; Fulbright grants to Tunisia, Egypt, and Senegal; visiting professor of Arabic at the United States
Military Academy; Scholar in Residence, University of Sains, Malaysia; visiting professor of history at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

BYRON CANNON is currently teaching:

Class Title	Semester	Date(s)	Program

BYRON CANNON has previously taught:

• Sunnism and Shiism: Have "Orthodox" and "Heterodox" Terms Become Inadequate?
• Gold Coast to Modern Ghana: Historical Origins of a Contemporary African Nation
• Modern History of Africa:Comparative Experiences of West, Central, South, and East Africa, 1600-1918