Rudolph "Butch" T. Bilal Ware III (born 1974) is an American educator and the 2024 vice presidential nominee for the Green Party.

Butch Ware
Born1974 (age 49–50)
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania (PhD)
Political partyGreen

Education

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Ware received his undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota in 1997.[1] He received his PhD in history in 2004 from the University of Pennsylvania.[2]

Career

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A historian of West Africa at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he first began teaching at Northwestern University, and later at the University of Michigan.[3][4]

He was selected by Jill Stein as the vice presidential nominee of the Green Party in the 2024 United States presidential election.[5]

Selected publications

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  • Ware, Rudolph T.; Wright, Zachary Valentine; Syed, Amir (2018). Jihad of the Pen: The Sufi Literature of West Africa. American University in Cairo Press. ISBN 978-977-416-863-5.[6]
  • Ware, Rudolph T. (2014). The Walking Qurʼan: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa. UNC Press Books. ISBN 978-1-4696-1431-1. Project MUSE book 31232.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Meet Butch - Jill Stein 2024". Retrieved September 16, 2024.
  2. ^ "Butch Ware – Department of History, UC Santa Barbara". Retrieved January 15, 2024.
  3. ^ "EIHS Lecture: 'Visionaries: Second Sight and Social Change in West Africa Since 1800'". U-M LSA Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies (Press release).
  4. ^ Ebbiary, Alyaa (November 16, 2022). "Prof. Rudolph Bilal Ware". Journal of Education in Muslim Societies. 4 (1). ISSN 2641-0052.
  5. ^ Buchman, Cassie (August 16, 2024). "Green Party candidate Jill Stein selects Dr. Butch Ware as running mate". NewsNation. Retrieved August 16, 2024.
  6. ^ Reviews of Jihad of the Pen:
  7. ^ Reviews of The Walking Qur'an:
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