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Title: Tom Killion papers
Date (inclusive): 1868-1997
Collection Number: 2017C40
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English, Tigrinya, Amharic, French, and Arabic
Physical Description:
25 manuscript boxes, 2 card file boxes, 4 oversize boxes
(14.8 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, notes, government documents, bulletins, serial issues, printed matter, photographs, and sound recordings
relating to the history of Ethiopia and Eritrea, especially to labor and nationalist movements in those countries.
Creator:
Killion, Tom
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2017.
[Identification of item], Tom Killion papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Tom Killion was born on November 28, 1953, and was raised in Marin County, California. In 1975 he received his B.A. in history
from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He went on to receive a Ph.D in African history with a dissertation on the
Ethiopian/Eritrean labor movement from Stanford University in 1985. From 1987 to 1988 Killion worked as an administrator for
medical programs in three refugee camps in Eastern Sudan near Showak. In March of 1988 he travelled in the liberated zone
of Eritrea with the Eritrean People's Liberation Front, witnessing the battle of Afabet and reporting on it for the
Los Angeles Times.
From 1990 to 1995 Killion was an Assistant Professor of African History at Bowdoin College. Between 1993 and 1994 Killion
was a Fulbright Professor at Asmara University in Eritrea. He later taught courses at Stanford and from 1995 to 2001 was a
guest lecturer in the Humanities Department at San Francisco State University.
In the early 1990s, Killion helped found the Eritrean Studies Association and organized the first Eritrean Studies Conference
at San Francisco State University. His
Historical Dictionary of Eritrea remains a notable resource in the field.
Killion is also a nationally recognized woodcut printmaker, for which he has received many awards and participated in many
exhibitions, as well as the 2009 PBS-TV documentary,
Craft in America: Process. He owns Quail Press, which he founded in 1977.
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, dissertation and research notes, reports, flyers, pamphlets, and other printed matter relating to political,
economic, cultural, and social affairs in the Horn of Africa, in general, and in Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Sudan, in particular.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Eritrea -- History
Labor movement -- Ethiopia
Labor movement -- Eritrea
Ethiopia -- History