Robert O. Collins, is Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB).  Educated at Dartmouth College, Balliol College, Oxford, and Yale University he has taught at Williams College, Columbia University, and UCSB for forty years where he served as Dean of the Graduate School (1970-1980) and Director of the UCSB Center in Washington D.C. (1992-1994). He has lectured in numerous American, European, Middle Eastern, and African universities and been a consultant to the Sudan Government, the High Executive Council of the Southern Sudan Regional Government, 1975-1983, and Chevron Overseas Petroleum Inc., 1981-1991.  

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