Lisa Lindsay (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina)

Submitted:  Wed, 31 January 2007


Lisa Lindsay
Associate Professor
Department of History
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
CB #3195
Chapel Hill, North Carolina  27599   USA

phone:   (919) 962-2178
fax:     (919) 962-1403
e-mail:  alindsa@email.unc.edu


Web page: http://www.unc.edu/depts/history/faculty/lindsay.html


Research interests: 
Colonial Africa, and the African diaspora. 

Publications:

Working with Gender: Wage Labor and Social Change in Southwestern 
Nigeria (Heinemann, 2003), traces transformations in household 
arrangements as well as ideas about gender as wage labor expanded, 
particularly on the colonial railway, beginning in the 1930s.

Co-editor (with Stephan Miescher) of a book of essays men-gendered 
experiences in the colonial and post-colonial periods called Men and 
Masculinities in Modern Africa. (Heinemann, 2003). Includes: "Money, 
Marriage and Masculinity on the Colonial Nigerian Railway," in Lindsay and 
Miescher (2003).

Other publications:

"A Tragic Romance, a Nationalist Symbol: The Case of the Murdered White 
Lover in Colonial Nigeria," Journal of Women's History 17, 2 (summer, 
2005): 118-141.

"Domesticity and Difference: Male Breadwinners, Working Women, and Colonial
Citizenship in the 1945 Nigerian General Strike," American Historical
Review. 104, 3 (1999): 783-812 (co-recipient of the Berkshire Conference
of Women Historians article prize)
  
"'No Need... to Think of Home'? Masculinity and Domestic Life on the
Nigerian Railway, c.1940-61," Journal of African History. 39 (1998):
439-466.

"'To Return to the Bosom of their Fatherland': Brazilian Immigrants in
Nineteenth Century Lagos," Slavery and Abolition. 15 (1994): 22-50.