Christopher C. Lowe (Independent Scholar, Portland, Oregon, USA)

Submitted: Tues, April 5, 2011


Christopher C. Lowe 
Freelance editor, proofreader and writer

Mail address:
7314 SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd
Portland, Oregon 97202  USA

phone: 503-788-2543
e-mail: clowe@igc.org


Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 1998: "Swaziland's Colonial Politics:
The Decline of Progressivist South African Nationalism and the Emergence
of Swazi Political Traditionalism, 1910-1939."

My intellectual interests include the social, cultural and political
history of southern Africa, particularly South Africa and Swaziland; the
comparative history of slavery; modes of knowledge about the past; African
labor studies; the ethics of scholarship in African studies; and the
problem of anti-intellectualism in debates over historical method and
cultural and social theory. I am also trying to work when possible on
approaches to broadening the circulation of better knowledge about Africa
in the U.S. beyond the academy, including improved communication with
non-specialist educators and journalists, and improved teaching materials
and support for their use in non-specialized secondary and tertiary
settings.

Recent publications:

Review of _The End of Apartheid in South Africa_, by Lindsay Michie Eades,
(Greenwood Press Guides to Historic Events of the Twentieth Century), in
_African Studies Review_ 43, 2 (September 2000):  158-59.

Review of _Zulu Woman: The Life Story of Christina Sibiya_, by Rebecca
Hourwich Reyher, ed. Marcia Wright and Liz Gunner, in _African Studies
Review_ 43, 1 (April 2000): 206-209.

"Civil Society, the Domestic Realm, History and Democracy in South
Africa," in _Always Something New: African Democracy in the Era of
Globalisation_, ed.  Jonathan Hyslop (University of the Witwatersrand
Press, 1999).

Review of _Natives Land Act 1913 Specific Cases of Evictions and Hardships
Etc._, by R. W. Msimang, in International Journal of African Historical
Studies 32, 2-3 (1999): 564-65.

Review of _When the Sleeping Grass Awakens: Land and Power in Swaziland_,
by Richard Levin, in _African Studies_, 57, 2 (December 1998): 239-41.

"Talking About Tribe," background paper, Africa Policy Information Center
Washington D.C., November 1997 (main author).  Re-published in _Teaching
Tolerance_, magazine of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

"Resurrection How?: A Response to Michael O. West and William G. Martin's
Article, 'A Future with a Past: Resurrecting the Study of Africa in the
Post-Africanist Era,'" _Africa Today_ 44, 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1997): 385-422.

"Unexamined Consequences of Academic Globalism in African Studies,"  
_Africa Today_ 44, 3 (July-Sept. 1997): 297-307.

"Buthelezi, Inkatha and the Problem of Ethnic Nationalism in South
Africa," in _History from South Africa_, ed. J. Brown et.al. (Temple
University Press, 1991): 192-208.