Franco Barchiesi (Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio)

Submitted:  Sun, March 16, 2008


Dr. Franco Barchiesi
Department of African-American and African Studies
Ohio State University
486-D University Hall
230 North Oval Mall
Columbus, Ohio  43210 USA

phone:  (614) 292.0498
fax:    (614) 292.2293
e-mail: barchiesi.1@osu.edu


Educational Background: B.A. 1991 (Bologna); B.A.-Hons, M.A. 1997 
(Witwatersrand); Ph.D. 2006 (Witwatersrand).

My doctoral dissertation in Sociology at the School of Social Sciences, 
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, is titled "Social 
Citizenship and the Transformations of Waged Labor in the Making of 
Post-Apartheid South Africa, 1994-2001." 

My research interests are in the study of African labor movements, with 
particular regard to Southern Africa, in relation to changing forms of 
employment, collective identities, civil society, social movements, social 
policy, and social citizenship.  On these issues I have recently edited 
(with Tom Bramble) a book on Rethinking the Labour Movement in the 
"New South Africa" (London: Ashgate, 2003).

At Ohio State University, I am currently teaching courses on "Introduction 
to African Civilizations: 1870 to the Present" (undegraduate), "Political 
Development of Sub-Saharan Africa" (graduate) and "African Social 
Movements in the Age of Globalization" (graduate).


Past work experience: 

1996-2002: Lecturer, Dept of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, 
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

2002-2005: Assistant Professor, African Studies, University of Bologna, Italy