Thomas V. McClendon (Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas)

Submitted: Thurs, 21 August 2003


Thomas McClendon
Associate Professor of History
Southwestern University
1001 E. University Avenue
SU Box 7396
Georgetown, Texas  78626-6144 USA

phone:  512 863-1414
fax:    512 863-1535
e-mail: mcclendt@southwestern.edu



Teaching: African (esp. South Africa and colonialism) and African-American 
history; colonialism; law.

Research: colonial state; customary law; gender and generation; land and 
labor; 19th and 20th century southern Africa.


Recent publications:

Genders and Generations Apart: Labor Tenants and Customary Law in 
Segregation-Era South Africa, 1920s to 1940s (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 
2002).

"Coercion and Conversation: African Voices in the Making of Customary Law 
in Natal," in Clifton Crais, ed., The Culture of Power in Southern Africa: 
Essays on State Formation and the Political Imagination (Portsmouth, NH: 
Heinemann, 2003).

"The Man Who Would Be Inkosi: Civilizing Missions in Shepstone's Early 
Career," Journal of Southern African Studies (forthcoming).

"'A Dangerous Doctrine': Twins, Ethnography, and Inheritance in Colonial
Africa," Journal of Legal Pluralism, 39 (1997): 121-40.

"'Hiding Cattle on the White Man's Farm': Cattle Loans and Commercial Farms
in Natal, 1930-1950," African Economic History, 25 (1997): 43-58.

"Tradition and Domestic Struggle in the Courtroom: Customary Law and the
Control of Women in Segregation-Era Natal," The International Journal of
African Historical Studies, 28, no. 3 (1995): 527-61.