Dotawo

Dotawo offers a platform in which the old meets the new, in which archaeological, papyrological, and philological research into Meroitic, Old Nubian, Coptic, Greek, and Arabic sources confront current investigations in modern anthropology and ethnography, Nilo-Saharan linguistics, and critical and theoretical approaches present in post-colonial and African studies.

Bringing these disparate fields together within the same fold, opening a cross-cultural and diachronic field where divergent approaches meet on common soil, Dotawo gives a common home to the past, present, and future of one of the richest areas of research in African studies. It offers a crossroads where papyrus can meet internet, scribes meet critical thinkers, and the promises of growing nations meet the accomplishments of old kingdoms.

Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies is an open access journal and its articles can be accessed through Sandpoints and the eScholarship platform of the University of California. Printed and PDF issues are available through open-access publisher punctum books. Dotawo is peer-reviewed and indexed in the Database of Open Access Journals.

The Dotawo Monograph series presents both unpublished material from the field of Nubian studies and original research and is published in collaboration with open-access publisher punctum books.

Issues

• Dotawo 1, ed. Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, Angelika Jakobi, and Giovanni Ruffini (2014). Available at punctum books · eScholarship · DigitalCommons@Fairfield
• Dotawo 2, ed. Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, Angelika Jakobi, and Giovanni Ruffini (2015). Available at punctum books · eScholarship · DigitalCommons@Fairfield
• Dotawo 3: “Know-How and Techniques in Ancient Sudan,” ed. Marc Maillot (2016). Available at punctum books · eScholarship · DigitalCommons@Fairfield
• Dotawo 4: “Place Names and Place Naming in Ancient Nubia,” ed. Robin Seignobos and Alexandros Tsakos (2017). Available at punctum books · eScholarship · DigitalCommons@Fairfield
• Dotawo 5: “Nubian Women,” ed. Anne Jennings (2018). Available at punctum books · eScholarship · DigitalCommons@Fairfield
• Dotawo 6: “Miscellanea Nubiana,” ed. Adam Simmons (2019). Available at punctum books · eScholarship
• Dotawo 7: “Comparative Northern East Sudanic Linguistics,” ed. Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei (2020). Available at Sandpoints · punctum books · eScholarship

Monographs

• Dotawo Monograph 1: The Old Nubian Texts from Attiri, ed. Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, Vincent Pierre-Michel Laisney, Giovanni Ruffini, Alexandros Tsakos, Kerstin Weber-Thum, and Petra Weschenfelder. Available at punctum books
• Dotawo Monograph 3: Eugenia Smagina, The Old Nubian Language, trans. Andrés Alonso de la Fuente. Available at punctum books

Team

Managing Editors

• Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei (independent scholar)
• Alexandros Tsakos (University of Bergen)

Editorial Board

• Mohamed Abdelrahman (International University of Africa)
• Julie Anderson (British Museum)
• Abeer Bashir (University of Khartoum)
• Anna Boozer (Baruch College, City University of New York)
• El-Shafie El-Guzuuli (independent scholar)
• Mahmoud El-Tayeb (University of Warsaw)
• Angelika Jakobi (Cologne University)
• Anne Jennings (independent scholar)
• Giovanni Ruffini (Fairfield University)
• Stuart Tyson Smith (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• Robin Seignobos (Université Lumière Lyon 2)
• Jay Spaulding (Kean University)
• Petra Weschenfelder (University of Vienna)
• Bruce Williams (University of Warsaw)
• Dobrochna Zielińska (University of Warsaw)