Dr. M. E.Bratchel
Ph.D (Cantab)
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Italian Renaissance History, and the history of European trade in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Biography
Downing College, Cambridge 1965-71: B.A. Hons (1968); Ph.D. (Cantab) (1975). Dr Bratchel is a Lecturer in History at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg since 1972.
Publications
Books
Lucca 1430-1494: The Reconstruction of an Italian City-Republic, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Medieval Lucca and the Evolution of the Renaissance State, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Selected journal articles and chapters in a book
"Usury in the Fifteenth Century Lucchesia: Images of Petty Money Lender", The Journal of European Economic History, 32, 2 (Fall 2003): 249-276.
"Lucca and Its Subject Communities (1430-1494)", in I. Zilli (ed.), Fra spazio e tempo: studi in onore di Luigi de Rosa, 3 vol. Naples, 1995, I, pp.175-189.
"Italian Merchant Organization and Business Relationships in Early Tudor London", in Sanjay Subrahmanyam (ed.), Merchant Networks in the Early Modern World: Variorum, An Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 8, London, 1996, pp.1-28.
"Chronicles of Fifteenth-Century Lucca: Contributions to an Understanding of the Restored Republic", in Bibliotheque d Humanisme et Renaissance, 40, 1998.
"Inclusion and Exclusion at the End of the Middle Ages: Christian-Jewish Relations in Late Medieval Italy", S.A. Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 18 (2008): 35-49.
Prof. Peter Delius
Ph.D. (London)
Personal Professor
Research Interests
The History of the Pedi Kingdom, Frontiers, Migrant Labour, Struggles over Land, Rural Resistance Movements, The Connection between Local and National Politics, Rural Development, Witchcraft, Conservation, Sexuality and Socialisation, Heritage - especially in Mpumalanga and Limpopo, and the Archaeology of Intensive Agriculture in Mpumulanga, 1500-1820.
Publications
Books
The Land Belongs to Us, (Ravan Press, Johannesburg, 1983; Heinemann and University of California Press, 1984.)
The Conversion, Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1984.
(With W. Beinart and S. Trapido), eds., Putting a Plough to the Ground, Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1986.
(With P. Bonner and D. Posel), eds., Apartheid's Genesis 1935-1962, Johannesburg: Ravan Press; Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1993.
A Lion Amongst the Cattle, Johannesburg: Ravan Press; Heinemann and James Currey, 1996.
Mpumalanga - History and Heritage, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007.
(With Michelle Hay), Mpumulanga: An Illustrated History, Highveld Press, 2009.
Prof. Clive Glaser
Associate Professor
M.A. (Wits), Ph.D (Cantab)
Research Interests
South African urban history, youth culture, crime, South African immigrant history
Biography
Clive Glaser received his MA from Wits in 1990 and his PhD from Cambridge, UK, in 1994. He has published extensively on the history of black urban youth culture and, more recently, on the history of sexual practices and crime in South Africa. He is developing a new research area in twentieth century Portuguese immigrant history. He edited African Studies, the acclaimed Wits-based inter-disciplinary journal, between 2001 and July 2009 and, since giving up the editorship, remains on the executive committee. He has been a member of the Wits History Workshop since 2000.
Publications
Books
Bo-Tsotsi: The Youth Gangs of Soweto, 1935-1976 , Heinemann, James Currey, David Philip (Social History of Africa Series), 2000.
(With Gail M. Gerhart), From Protest to Challenge: Volume Six: Challenge and Victory, 1980-1990, Indiana University Press/Jacana, 2010.
Selected journal articles:
"We Must Infiltrate the Tsotsis': School Politics and Youth Gangs in Soweto, 1968-1976", Journal of Southern African Studies ,24, 2,(June 1998): 301-324.
"Swines, Hazels and the Dirty Dozen: Masculinity, Territoriality and the Youth Gangs of Soweto, 1960-1976", Journal of Southern African Studies ,24, 4 (Special Issue on Masculinities in Southern Africa), December 1998: 719-736.
(with P. Delius), "Sexual Socialisation in South Africa: A Historical Perspective", African Studies , 61, 1, 2002: 27-54.
(with P. Delius), "The Myths of Polygamy: A history of multiple-partnership and extra-marital sex in South Africa", South African Historical Journal, 50, 2004: 85-114.
(with P. Delius), "Sex, Disease and Stigma in South Africa: Historical perspectives", African Journal of Aids Research, (2005): 29-36.
"Managing the Sexuality of Urban Youth: Johannesburg 1920s -1960s", International Journal of African Historical Studies, 38, 2,(2005): 301-327.
"Violent Crime in South Africa: Historical Perspectives", South African Historical Journal, 60, 3, (2008): 334-352
DR. C.I Hamilton
Associate Professor
B.A.Hons (Keele), Ph.D (Cantab)
Research Interests
Naval History.
Biography
Graduated University of Keele. Doctoral research, Queens' College, Cambridge. He Joined Wits in 1982 and has particular interests in the British and French navies of the nineteenth century, naval administration, and the links between signals intelligence and naval operations during the Second World War.
Publications
Books
Anglo-French Naval Rivalry 1840-1870, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
The Making of the Modern Admiralty. British Naval Policy-Making, 1805-1927, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Selected journal articles
''Selections from the Phinn Committee of Inquiry... into the State of the Office of Secretary to the Admiralty'', in The Naval Miscellany, volume V, edited N.A.M. Rodger, Navy Records Society, London, 1984.
''Seamen and Crime at the Cape, c.1860-1880'', International Journal of Maritime History, 2, 1, 1989.
''The Childers Admiralty Reforms and the Nineteenth Century 'Revolution' in British Government'', War in History, 5, 1, 1998.
''John Wilson Croker: patronage and clientage at the Admiralty, 1809-1857'', Historical Journal, 43, 1, 2000. * Portsmouth Dockyard Papers 1852-1869: from Wood to Iron, Hampshire County Council, Winchester, 2005.
Doctor Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi
Senior Lecturer
B.A. (Ed), B.A. (Hons), M.A., Wits.
Ph.D. (Minnesota)
Research Interests
Ethnicity and the making of the 'Transv l Ndebele', the history of radio in South Africa (mainly African language radio stations of the SABC, and especially Northern and Southern Sotho, Tswana and Ndebele language services), the history of the ANC's Radio Freedom, white anthropologists, black research assistants and fieldwork in Southern Africa, History teaching and teacher development, heritage.
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Biography
Dr Lekgoathi teaches African history and American history, including African American history. He has also played an important role in organizing and facilitating teachers' workshops under the auspices of the History Workshop, and he has contributed to the writing of History school textbooks. He has published in the leading academic journals. He is currently in the process of turning his PhD thesis of the crystallisation of Northern Ndebele Ethnicity into a book manuscript while at the same time working on a comparative study of Nicholas van Warmelo (chief ethnologist of the Native Affairs Department) and Is c Schapera and their relationship with their African research assistants.
Publications
Selected Journal articles
''Teacher Militancy in the Rural Northern Transv l Community of Zebediela, 1986-1994'', South African Historical Journal, 58 (2007): 226-252.
'''Colonial' Experts, Local Interlocutors, Informants and the Making of an Archive on the Transv l Ndebele, 1930-89", Journal of African History, 50 (2009): 61-80.
''You are listening to Radio Lebowa of the South African Broadcasting Corporation'': Vernacular Radio, Bantustan Identity, and Listenership, 1960-1994", Journal of Southern African Studies, 35, 3 (2009): 575-594.
''The History Workshop, Teacher Development and Outcomes-Based Education over the Past Seven Years'', African Studies, 69, 1 (2010): 103-123.
"The African National Congress's Radio Freedom and its Listeners in Apartheid South Africa", 1963-1980s, Journal of African Media Studies, 2010: 2, 2 (in press).
Doctor Mucha Musemwa
Senior Lecturer
PhD (University of Minnesota)
Research Interests
Environmental/Urban history: contestation over resources, particularly the history and politics of water in colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe.
Publications
Selected journal articles and chapters in a book
''A Tale of Two Cities: The Evolution of the City of Bulawayo and Makokoba Township under Conditions of Water Scarcity, 1894-1953'', South African Historical Journal, 55 (2006): 186-209.
''Disciplining a 'Dissident' City: Hydropolitics in the City of Bulawayo, Matabeleland, Zimbabwe, 1980-1994'', Journal of Southern African Studies, 32, 2 (Special Issue dedicated to the on-going crisis in Zimbabwe), (2006): 239-254.
''Early Struggles over Water: From Private to Public Water Utility in the City of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, 1894-1924'', Journal of Southern African Studies, 34, 4 (Special Issue: The Power of Water: Landscape, Water and the State in Southern and Eastern Africa), (Dec. 2008): 881-898.
''Contestation over Resources: The Miners-Farmers Dispute in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1903-1939'', Environment and History, 15 (2009): 79-107.
''Coping with Water Scarcity: The Social and Environmental Impact of the 1982-1992 Droughts on Makokoba Township, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe''', in P. Nugent and F. Locatelli (eds.), African Cities: Competing Claims on Urban Spaces, Leiden: Brill, 2009, pp. 157-185.
Dr. Noor Nieftagodien
Senior Lecturer
Ph.D. (Wits)
Research Interests
Local histories and present realities.
Biography
Dr Nieftagodien is a Senior Lecturer in the History Department, serves as the Deputy Chair of the History Workshop, is a member of the University Senate and serves on the board of the South African History Archives. He has authored and co-authored over ten chapters in books. He also served on the editorial board of The Road to Democracy in South Africa Project and published articles on aspects of the liberation movements. He is writing histories of Orlando West, the V l Triangle and of the Chemical, Electricity, Paper, Plastic and Allied Workers' Union.
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Publications
Books
(With P. Bonner) Alexandra - A History, Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2008.
Selected journal articles and chapters in a book
''Economy and Society on the East Rand in the 20th Century'', in S. Roberts (ed.), Sustainable Manufacturing? The Case of South Africa and Ekurhuleni, Cape Town: Juta, 2006.
''Wits Cleaners' Long Walk to Unionism'', South African Labour Bulletin, 30, 4 (October/November 2006).
''Workers and Youth in the Struggle for Democracy in Kathorus, 1984-1994'', in Chris Saunders, From Apartheid to Democracy: Localities and Liberation, Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town, 2007.
(With Kezia Lewin), ''Doors of learning not open to all: Struggle to reform higher education'', South African Labour Bulletin, 32, 2 (June/July 2008).
''Xenophobia in Alexandra'', in Shireen Hassim, Tawana Kupe & Eric Worby (eds.), Go Home Or Die Here: Violence, Xenophobia and the Reinvention of Difference in South Africa, Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2008.
''The Place of the Local in History Workshop's Local History'', African Studies, January 2010.
''Xenophobia's Local Genesis: Historical Constructions of ''Insiders''/''Outsiders'' and the Politics of Exclusion in Alexandra Township'', in Lauren Landau (ed.), Exorcising the Demons Within: Xenophobia, Violence, and Statecraft in Contemporary South Africa, Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2011.
''The Spatial Politics of the Past and the Present. A Brief History of Alexandra'', in Kerstin Pinther, Larissa Förster, and Christian Hanussek (eds.) Afropolis - Kairo, Lagos, Nairobi, Kinshasa, Johannesburg, 2010.
Doctor Maria Suriano
Lecturer
Ph.D. (Universita degli Studi di Napoli 'L' 'Orientale', Naples)
Research Interests
Popular culture, leisure and urban studies, past and present youth culutres, social history, intellectual history, Indian Ocean studies.
Biography
Dr Suriano joined Wits in 2008. She has an excellent command of Swahili language (standard and colloquial) and since 2000 she has been conducting field-research in Tanzania on topics such as gender and the struggle for independence in British Tanzania, past and present East African popular musics (from urban jazz, known as dansi, to hip-hop in Swahili), on clothing styles and their cultural, social and political implications, as well as on the Swahili press and readers’ debates on cultural issues in rhyming poems (mashairi) and letters to the editor.
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Publications
Selected journal articles and chapters in a book
''Mimi ni msanii, kioo cha jamii''. Urban Youth Culture in Tanzania as Seen Through Bongo Flavour and Hip-hop, Swahili Forum 14 (2007): 207-223.
''Clothing and the Changing Identities of Tanganyikan Urban Youths, 1920s-1950s'', Journal of African Cultural Studies 20, 1 (special issue on East African culture, language and society), (2008): 95-115.
''Popular Music, Identity and Politics in a Colonial Urban Space: the Case of Mwanza, Tanzania (1945-1961)'', in P. Nugent and F. Locatelli (eds.), African Cities. Competing Claims on Urban Spaces, Leiden: Brill, 2009, pp. 261-289.
"Letters to the Editor and Poems: Mambo Leo and Readers' Debates on Dansi, Ustaarabu, Respectability, and Modernity in Tanganyika, 1940s-1950s", Africa Today 57, 3, (Spring 2011): 39-55; (special issue on Eastern African Literatures and Cultures).
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