Christopher Ehret

Christopher Ehret
Born	27 July 1941
Nationality	American
Occupation	Historian
Academic background
Alma mater	Northwestern University
Academic work
Institutions	University of California, Los Angeles
Main interests	Afroasiatic languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, historical linguistics
Notable works	Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian) (2005)

Christopher Ehret (born 27 July 1941), who currently holds the position of Professor at UCLA, is an American scholar of African history and African historical linguistics particularly known for his efforts to correlate linguistic taxonomy and reconstruction with the archeological record. He has published ten books, has written around seventy scholarly articles on a wide range of historical, linguistic, and anthropological subjects.

Recent years

In recent years Ehret has carried his work in several new directions. One of these has been the history and evolution of early human kinship systems. A second interest has been to apply the methods of historical reconstruction from linguistic evidence to issues in anthropological theory and in world history.

Books

• Ancient Africa: A Global History, to 300 CE. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023.
• The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800. Second Edition. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016.
• A Dictionary of Sandawe: The Lexicon and Culture of a Khoesan People of Tanzania. (C. Ehret and Patricia Ehret, eds.) Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2012.
• History and the Testimony of Language. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2011.
• The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2002.
• A Historical-Comparative Reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2001.
• An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998.
• Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian): Vowels, Tone, Consonants, and Vocabulary. Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995.
• The Archaeological and Linguistic Reconstruction of African History. (C. Ehret and M. Posnansky, eds.) Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1982.
• The Historical Reconstruction of Southern Cushitic Phonology and Vocabulary. Berlin: Reimer, 1980.
• Ethiopians and East Africans: The Problem of Contacts. Nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1974.
• Southern Nilotic History: Linguistic Approaches to the Study of the Past. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1971.

External links

• His works
• A Conversation with Christopher Ehret, World History Connected Vol. 2 No. 1 (November 2004)
• Reviews of An African Classical Age, 2007