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From: Joseph C. Miller [jcm7a@virginia.edu]
List Editor: Lorna Zukas <llueker@NU.EDU>
Editor's Subject: Obituary: Professor Jim Searing
Author's Subject: Obituary: Professor Jim Searing
Date Written: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 22:40:00 +0000
Date Posted: Fri, 06 Dec 2012 17:40:00 -0500

Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012
Subject: Re: Obituary: Professor Jim Searing

ALL - I have been too shocked by the sad news of Jim's passing to join in the
eulogies until now - not least because one of the highlights of the meeting of
the ASA last week for me was a lively, witty, smart, and engaging chat with Jim
about approaches to teaching the survey of early African history that we
discovered that we shared.  I think that we all felt that way about Jim - a
stimulating colleague in a spirit of warm friendship.  Fortunately we have a
solid corpus of his thought in published form.  It won't be the same without
the thinker, and friend.

JOE MILLER (University of Virginia)

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