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Terri Barnes, Associate Professor

309 Gregory Hall
810 S. Wright
Urbana, IL 61801
Email: tbarnes2@illinois.edu

1994: Ph.D., University of Zimbabwe, African Economic History
1987: M.A., University of Zimbabwe, African Economic History, Awarded with distinction.
1985: B.A., Honours. University of Zimbabwe, African Economic History
1979: B.A., Brown University, International Relations

2008-present: Associate Professor, Gender & Women’s Studies Program and Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
2005-2008: Associate Professor, History Department, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
2005-present: Research Coordinator, Gender and Institutional Culture in African Universities Project, African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town and Association of African Universities
2001-2005: Senior Researcher, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of the Western Cape
1997-2001: Senior Lecturer, History Department, University of the Western Cape
Summer 2004: Visiting Instructor, University of Minnesota, USA, Summer 2004.
Fall 2003: Visiting Assistant Professor, Appalachian State University, North Carolina
2000-2001: Research Manager, University of Connecticut/ANC Oral History Project
1995-96: Researcher and Writer, From Protest to Challenge, Volume 7 (Biographical Profiles), University of the Witwatersrand
1993: Lecturer, History Department, University of Cape Town
1991: Tutor, History Department, University of the Witwatersrand

Mergers in South African Universities: The Rocky Years, 2002—2005. Co-edited publication, University of South Africa Press (forthcoming 2009).
We Women Worked So Hard: Gender, Urbanization and Social Reproduction in Colonial Harare, Zimbabwe, 1930-56, Heinemann: Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1999.
To Live A Better Life: An Oral History of Women in Zimbabwe, 1930-70, with Everjoice Win, Baobab Books: Harare, 1992.

“Product Red: The Marketing of African Misery,” Journal of PanAfrican Studies (forthcoming 2008).
“Politics of the mind and body: Gender and Institutional Culture in African Universities,” Feminist Africa, 2007.
“History has to play its role: Constructions of Race and Reconciliation in Secondary School Historiography in Zimbabwe, 1980-2002” Journal of Southern African Studies, September 2007.
“Nation-building without mortar? Public participation in the restructuring of South African higher education.” Perspectives in Education March 2006.
“Changing discourses of redress in South African higher education.” Journal of Asian and African Studies 41, 2006.
“No Bubble: Contemporary Lives in the African academy.” Journal of Women’s History, Spring 2006.

“Zimbabwe 1965-80” with Joseph Mtisi and Munyaradzi Mushonga, in Brian Raftopolous and Alois Mlambo, eds. Zimbabwe: A Textbook (forthcoming 2008).
“Flame: A Zimbabwean story” in Richard Mendelsohn and Vivian Bickford-Smith, eds. Black and White in Colour: African History On Screen, Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006.
“Reconciliation, ethnicity and school history in Zimbabwe,” in Brian Raftopoulos and Tyrone Savage, eds. Injustice and Political Reconciliation, Cape Town: ComPress, 2005.
“The African slave trade, racism, freedom and the development of the world economy,” Part 1 of Chapter 9, Educator’s Guide to the UNESCO General History of Africa for the FET Curriculum, South Africa Ministry of Education: New Africa Books, 2004.