Terri Barnes, Associate Professor
Contact Information
309 Gregory Hall
810 S. Wright
Urbana, IL 61801
Email: tbarnes2@illinois.edu
Education
- 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
Academic Employment
- 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
Selected Publications
BOOKS
- 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.
ARTICLES
- “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.
BOOK CHAPTERS
- “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.
Courses Taught
- Gender and African History
- Autobiography and identity
- The Atlantic Slave Trade
- Conditions of work in higher education
- Post-colonial Africa
- The Land Question in Zimbabwe
- Gender and Nationalism
- Rural South Africa in the 20th century
- Humanities Foundation
- Politics of inequality in the US, Cuba and South Africa