Lee V. Cassanelli

6.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Lee V. Cassanelli is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Anthropology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Lee V. Cassanelli has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 8 papers in Anthropology and 2 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Lee V. Cassanelli's work include African history and culture analysis (11 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (8 papers) and Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 papers). Lee V. Cassanelli is often cited by papers focused on African history and culture analysis (11 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (8 papers) and Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 papers). Lee V. Cassanelli collaborates with scholars based in United States. Lee V. Cassanelli's co-authors include Arjun Appadurai, Nancy Farriss, Patrick J. Geary, Brian S. Spooner, William H. Davenport, Said S. Samatar, David D. Laitin, John Lamphear, Catherine Besteman and Alessandro Triulzi and has published in prestigious journals such as The American Historical Review, The International Journal of African Historical Studies and Ethnohistory.

In The Last Decade

Lee V. Cassanelli

12 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Social Life of Things

1986 3.0k citations Arjun Appadurai, Arjun Appadurai et al. Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lee V. Cassanelli United States	8	1.3k	906	495	362	357	15	3.3k
Nancy Farriss United States	13	1.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	477 1.0×	423 1.2×	358 1.0×	25	3.9k
Patrick J. Geary United States	16	1.3k 1.0×	961 1.1×	464 0.9×	409 1.1×	373 1.0×	68	4.1k
William H. Davenport United States	9	1.2k 0.9×	829 0.9×	334 0.7×	414 1.1×	358 1.0×	41	3.3k
Deborah Gewertz United States	17	1.4k 1.1×	792 0.9×	306 0.6×	433 1.2×	195 0.5×	62	2.9k
Frederick Errington United States	18	1.5k 1.2×	770 0.8×	319 0.6×	414 1.1×	196 0.5×	58	3.0k
Richard Handler United States	25	1.9k 1.5×	1.1k 1.2×	540 1.1×	477 1.3×	772 2.2×	126	4.4k
Michel de Certeau	21	1.9k 1.5×	559 0.6×	574 1.2×	396 1.1×	129 0.4×	75	4.4k
Johannes Fabian Netherlands	27	2.2k 1.7×	1.8k 2.0×	748 1.5×	456 1.3×	182 0.5×	94	5.2k
Eric Hobsbawm United Kingdom	13	2.7k 2.1×	1.3k 1.4×	1.2k 2.3×	251 0.7×	182 0.5×	37	5.1k
Robert J. Foster United States	20	841 0.7×	620 0.7×	225 0.5×	278 0.8×	197 0.6×	60	2.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lee V. Cassanelli

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All Works

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15 of 15 papers shown

Cassanelli, Lee V.. (2009). The Partition of Knowledge in Somali Studies: Reflections on Somalia's Fragmented Intellectual Heritage. HIMALAYA. 9(1). 4–17. 3 indexed citations

Cassanelli, Lee V.. (2008). The Somali Studies International Association: A Brief History. HIMALAYA. 1(1). 5.

Cassanelli, Lee V., et al.. (2007). Somalia: Education in Transition. HIMALAYA. 7(1). 91–125. 18 indexed citations

Cassanelli, Lee V.. (2006). Tradition to text: writing local somali history in the travel narrative of Charles Guillain (1846–48). Journal of African Cultural Studies. 18(1). 57–71. 3 indexed citations

Cassanelli, Lee V.. (2004). Book Review: Yesterday, Tomorrow: Voices from the Somali Diaspora. Journal of Asian and African Studies. 39(5). 484–485.

Besteman, Catherine, et al.. (1999). The Struggle for Land in Southern Somalia: The War behind the War. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 32(2/3). 488–488. 69 indexed citations

Cassanelli, Lee V., David D. Laitin, & Said S. Samatar. (1989). Somalia: Nation in Search of a State. The American Historical Review. 94(4). 1148–1148. 87 indexed citations

Appadurai, Arjun, Arjun Appadurai, Nancy Farriss, et al.. (1986). The Social Life of Things. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 3028 indexed citations breakdown →

Gamst, Frederick C. & Lee V. Cassanelli. (1984). The Shaping of Somali Society: Reconstructing the History of a Pastoral People, 1600-1900. Ethnohistory. 31(3). 233–233. 1 indexed citations

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Turton, David & Lee V. Cassanelli. (1984). The Shaping of Somali Society: Reconstructing the History of a Pastoral People, 1600-1900. African Economic History. 232–232. 1 indexed citations

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Triulzi, Alessandro & Lee V. Cassanelli. (1983). The Shaping of Somali Society. Reconstructing the History of a Pastoral People, 1600-1900. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 16(4). 723–723. 7 indexed citations

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Lamphear, John & Lee V. Cassanelli. (1983). The Shaping of Somali Society: Reconstructing the History of a Pastoral People, 1600-1900. The American Historical Review. 88(4). 1038–1038. 56 indexed citations

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Cassanelli, Lee V.. (1982). The Shaping of Somali Society. University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks. 55 indexed citations

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Cassanelli, Lee V., Colin Legum, & Bill Lee. (1981). The Horn of Africa in Continuing Crisis. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 14(3). 573–573. 7 indexed citations

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Cassanelli, Lee V.. (1979). Recent Studies in Somali Studies. 2(1). 36–41. 1 indexed citations

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