Michael Mahoney

  Michael Mahoney

 

Education

  • B.A. History, Connecticut College
  • M.A. History, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Ph. D. History, University of California, Los Angeles

 

Current Courses Taught

  •  History 200.03   Modern Africa since 1800

 

 

Awards and Honors

  • Sarai Rubicoff Teaching Award, Yale University
  • Morse Fellowship, Yale University

 

 

Recent Publications and Presentations

  • The Other Zulus: The Spread of Zulu Ethnicity in Colonial South Africa (Duke University Press, in process).
  • “An Ambiguous Sexual Revolution: Intragenerational Conflict in Late Colonial Natal, 1879-1906,” South African Historical Journal, 50 (2004), pp. 134-151. (with Julie Parle)
  • “Racial Formation and Ethnogenesis from Below: The Zulu Case, 1879-1906,”International Journal of African Historical Studies, vol. 36, no. 3 (2003), pp. 559-584.
  • “The Zulu Kingdom as a Genocidal and Postgenocidal State,” Journal of Genocide Research, vol. 5, no. 2 (June 2003), pp. 251-268.
  • “Estado Novo, Homem Novo: Colonial and Anti-Colonial Development Ideologies in Mozambique, 1930-1977,” in Michael Latham et al. (eds),Staging Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Globalization of the Cold War (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002).
  • “The Millennium Comes to Mapumulo: Popular Christianity in Rural Natal, 1866-1906,” Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 25, no. 3 (September 1999), pp. 375-391.

 

 

 

Areas of Interest

  • Modern African history
  • South African history
  • Zulu history
  • Ethnicity
  • Economic development
  • Race, class, and gender
  • Social history