Phia Steyn (University of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa)

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Miss Phia Steyn
Department of History
University of the Orange Free State
P.O. Box 339
Bloemfontein
9300
South Africa

phone:  +27 - 51 - 401 2330
fax:    +27 - 51 - 5224119
e-mail: sophias@iafrica.com (home)
 or fgmss@rs.uovs.ac.za (work)



Teaching at undergraduate and post-graduate levels:
Pre-colonial and colonial Africa; the social, political, economic and
environmental challenges of independent Africa; the land issue in South
African history; the history of the anti-apartheid movement (1948-1990);
democratisation in South  Africa; the environmental impact of apartheid.

Research:
Environmental history, specialising in the history of environmentalism in
South Africa, and the environmental struggles that surround multinational
oil companies' involvement in Africa.


Recent publications:

P. Steyn and A. Wessels, "Environmental non-governmental contributions to
the global environmental movement, 1962-1992" in Journal for Contemporary
History 24(2), December 1999, pp. 96-113.

P. Steyn and A. Wessels, "The roots of contemporary environmental and
non-governmental environmental activities in South Africa, 1654-1972" in
New Contree 45, September 1999, pp. 61-81.

P. Steyn and A. Wessels, " '(S)hell in Nigeria'? - Ken Saro-Wiwa en die
stryd van die Ogoni" in Journal for Contemporary History 23(2), December
1998, pp. 81-100. [Ken Saro-Wiwa and the struggle of the Ogoni]