Bruce Fetter

Bruce Sigmund Fetter (8 June 1938 – 20 April 2017) was an American academic historian, social scientist, and Africanist. His particular research interests lay in the field of urban history, historical demography, and subsequently public health. Fetter was a professor of history at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee from 1967 to 2009.

Biography Fetter was born in Ashland, Kentucky in the United States on 8 June 1938. Fetter continued to research and write about the history of Central Africa. He co-edited an anthology of primary sources entitled Colonial Rule in Africa (1979) and wrote Colonial Rule and Regional Imbalance in Central Africa (1983). He remained interested in urban history and was co-editor of the journal Urbanism Past and Present from 1975 to 1985.

Fetter died of cancer at Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 20 April 2017, aged 78.