ALLEN, Philip M(ark)

ALLEN, Philip M(ark). American, b. 1932. Genres: Travel/Exploration, Third World. Career: U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, foreign service officer in Hamburg and Bonn, Germany, and Antananarivo, Madagascar, 1956-66; African-American Institute, NYC, regional representative for French-speaking Africa in Lagos, Nigeria, and Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and director of training and program development in NYC, 1966-70; University of Vermont, Burlington, associate professor of African studies, beginning in 1970; Johnson State College, Johnson, VT, associate professor of social science, until 1978, chairperson of Humanities Division, 1978-81, professor of humanities, 1986-87; Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD, dean of arts and humanities, 1987-99, distinguished university professor, 1999-. Senior Fulbright lecturer, University of Dakar, 1981-82, University of Constantine, 1985-86, and University of Antananarivo, 1999-2000. Haiti Ministry of Agriculture, director of management training seminar, 1977-78. Publications: Self-Determination in the Western Indian Ocean, 1966; (with A. Segal) The Traveler's Africa, 1973; (ed. and author of introduction) Vermont and the Year 2000, 1976; (with J.M. Ostheimer) Africa and the Islands of the Western Indian Ocean, 1976; Security and Nationalism in the Indian Ocean: Lessons from the Latin Quarter Islands, 1987; Madagascar: Conflicts of Authority, 1995. Contributor to books. Contributor of articles, stories, and poems to periodicals. Address: Performing Arts Center 127, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD 21532, U.S.A. Online address: pallen@frostburg.edu