Jeanne Marie Penvenne (Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts)

Submitted: Fri, 22 August 2003


Jeanne Marie Penvenne
Associate Professor of History
Department of History
Tufts University
105 East Hall - The Green
Medford, Massachusetts  02155  USA

phone:   617-628-5000 x5460
fax:     617-627-3479
e-mail:  jeanne.penvenne@tufts.edu



Teaching and research:
Labor and social history of Mozambique and southern Africa.


Books:

African workers and colonial racisim: Mozambican strategies and struggles
in Lourenço Marques, 1877-1962. (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann; 
Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press; London: J. Currey, c1995)

Trabalhadores de Lourenço Marques (1870-1974): antologia de 
artigos. Estudos (Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique); 9.  
(Maputo: Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique, 1993)


Journal articles and book chapters:

"A Tapestry of Conflict: Mozambique 1960-1995," in David Birmingham and
Phyllis Martin, eds. History of Central Africa;  The Contemporary Years
(London, Longman, 1998): 230-266.

"João dos Santos Albasini (1876-1922); The Contradictions of 
Politics and Identity in Colonial Mozambique," Journal of African History,
Vol. 37, No. 3, (1996):417-464.

"Seeking the Factory for Women, Mozambican Urbanization in the Late
Colonial Era," Journal of Urban History, Vol. 23 No. 3 (March, 1997):
342-379.

"'We are all Portuguese!': Challenging the Political Economy of
Assimilation, Lourenco Marques, 1870 to 1933," in Leroy Vail, ed., 
The Creation of Tribalism in Southern Africa (Berkeley: University of
California, 1989): 255-288.

"Labor Struggles at the Port of Lourenco Marques, 1900-1933," Review;
Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies,
Historical Systems and Civilizations, "The Struggle for Southern Africa,
Special Issue Dedicated to the Memory of Ruth First, 8, 2 (1984):
249-285.

'Here Everyone Walked with Fear': The Mozambican Labor System and the
Workers of Lourenco Marques, 1945-1962," in Frederick Cooper, ed.,
Struggle for the City:  Migrant Labor, Capital and the State (Berkeley,
Sage, 1983):  131-166.