{{Short description|American historian (born 1956)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox academic | name =Andrew Apter |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1956|12|7}} | alma_mater = | discipline = History | workplaces = University of California, Los Angeles }}
'''Andrew Herman Apter''' (born December 7, 1956) is an American historian, professor at University of California, Los Angeles,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.history.ucla.edu/people/faculty?lid%3D1337 |title=Faculty — History |accessdate=2010-05-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613010345/http://www.history.ucla.edu/people/faculty?lid=1337 |archivedate=2010-06-13 }}</ref> and Director of the African Studies Center.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.international.ucla.edu/person.asp?Facultystaff_ID%3D392 |title=Andrew Apter (Currently on Sabbatical), UCLA International Institute |accessdate=2010-05-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605231214/http://www.international.ucla.edu/person.asp?Facultystaff_ID=392 |archivedate=2011-06-05 }}</ref>
He was field director of Black Atlantic Studies, for the Social Science Research Council.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/subcompetitions/dpdf-fellowship/EC520470-3904-DD11-BEF0-001CC477EC70/2955EA66-475C-DE11-BD80-001CC477EC70/|title=Black Atlantic Studies - Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship - Social Science Research Council (SSRC) - Brooklyn, NY, USA|website=Social Science Research Council|accessdate=11 August 2017}}</ref>
==Awards== *2010 Guggenheim Fellow<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/16721-andrew-apter |title=Andrew Apter - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |accessdate=2010-05-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100421120000/http://www.gf.org/fellows/16721-andrew-apter |archivedate=2010-04-21 }}</ref>
==Works== * [https://books.google.com/books?id=a4TjY4ICvlgC ''Beyond Words: Discourse and Critical Agency in Africa''], University of Chicago Press, 2007, {{ISBN|978-0-226-02352-6}} * [https://books.google.com/books?id=v5OIApSMODwC ''Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Power in Yoruba Society''], University of Chicago Press, 1992, {{ISBN|978-0-226-02342-7}} * [https://books.google.com/books?id=cABTci1ARN0C ''The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria''], University of Chicago Press, 2005, {{ISBN|978-0-226-02355-7}} *[https://books.google.com/books?id=8OFZaqcRqxcC&q=Andrew+Apter&pg=PA111 "Atinga Revisited"], ''Modernity and its malcontents: ritual and power in postcolonial Africa'', Editors Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff, University of Chicago Press, 1993, {{ISBN|978-0-226-11440-8}} *[https://books.google.com/books?id=mTyLYXRZkEEC&q=Andrew+Apter&pg=PA267 "IBB = 419: Nigerian Democracy and the Politics of Illusion"], ''Civil society and the political imagination in Africa: critical perspectives'', Editors John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff, University of Chicago Press, 1999, {{ISBN|978-0-226-11413-2}}
==Further reading== {{main|List of important publications in anthropology}}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{YouTube|okTiToQUa2k|Youth & Violence: Andrew Apter, UCLA}}
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