| Robert R. Edgar, Professor |
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| Contact Information |
Office:
Howard University
Rm #
Washington, DC 20059 |
Office Phone: 202.806. |
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| Education |
- Ph.D. in African History, University of California, Los Angeles
- M.A. in African History, Indiana University
- B.A. in History, Oklahoma State University
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| Teaching and Research Areas |
- Social Science Research Methods
- African History; Southern Africa
- African Religious and Political Movements
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| Faculty and Academic Administrative Positions |
- Director of Graduate Studies, Department of African Studies, Howard University
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| Selected Publications: |
- Books & Monographs
- Prophets with Honor: A Documentary History of Lekhotla la Bafo (Ravan Press, 1987)
- An African American in South Africa: The Research Diary of Ralph J. Bunche, 1937(Ohio University Press, 1992)
- Because They Chose the Plan of God: The Bullhoek Massacre of 1921 (Ravan Press, 1988)
- Sanctioning Apartheid (Africa World Press, 1990)
- Freedom in Our Lifetime: The Collected Writings of Anton Muziwakhe Lembede co-authored with Luyanda ka Msumza (Johannesburg: Skotaville Press, 1996; Ohio University Press, 1996).
- African Apocalypse: The Story of Nontetha Nkwenkwe, A Twentieth Century South African Prophet co-authored with Hilary Sapire (Ohio University Press, 2000)
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| Articles & Chapters in Books |
- Contributed chapters on Africa and Latin America to Palmira Brummett et al, Civilization: Past and Present, 9th and 10th editions (Addison Wesley, Longman, 1999 and 2002)
- “Garveyism in South Africa,” and “Essays on Garveyism in Africa,” in Robert Hill (ed.), The Marcus Garvey Papers, Africa Volume (forthcoming)
- Country Study on South Africa for Colliers Yearbook (1997)
- “African Perspectives,” in George Jewsbury, “Instructor’s Resource Manual” for Kishlansky, Geary, O’Brien and Wong, Societies and Cultures in World History (Harper Collins, 1995)
- Entries on “John Tento Jabavu,” “Vuyusile Mini,” and “Saul Msane” in the Encyclopaedia Africana Dictionary of African Biography, Volume III (Reference Publications, 1995)
- Country Studies on Lesotho, Botswana and Swaziland for Colliers Yearbook (1990-1994)
- “Writing Because They Chose the Plan of God,” Perspectives in Education, XII, 1 (1991), pp. 121-124
- “After the Coup: South Africa’s Relations with Lesotho,” South African Review, V (1989), pp. 241-250
- “The Lesotho Coup of 1986,” South African Review, VI (1988), pp. 373-382
- “African Educational Protest in South Africa: The American School Movement in the Transkei in the 1920’s,” in Peter Kallaway (ed.), Apartheid and Education (1984)
- “Notes on the Life and Death of Albert Nzula,” in International Journal of African Historical Studies, XVI, 4 (1983)
- “Lesotho and the First World War: Recruiting, Resistance and the South Africa Native Labour Contingent,” Mohlomi, III (1982), pp. 94-108
- “A.A.S. LeFleur and the Griqua Trek of 1917: Segregation, Self-help and Ethnic Identity,: co-authored with C. Saunders. In International Journal of African Historical Studies, XV, 2 (1982), pp. 201-220
- “The Prophet Motive: Enoch Mgijima and the Origins of the Israelite Sect in South Africa,” in International Journal of African Historical Studies, XV, 3 (1982), 201-220
- Country Studies on South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland in Jocelyn Murray (ed.), A Cultural Atlas of Africa, (1981)
- “Garveyism in Africa: Dr. Wellington and the ‘American’ Movement in the Transkei,” in Ufahamu, VI, 1 (1976), pp. 31-57
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| Selected Unpublished Works: |
- “‘Comrade Futsi’: Conversations with Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana.” Work in progress (Mayibuye Centre, University of Western Cape)
- “A Native Functionary: Edwin Mofutsanyana and the Communist Party of South Africa, 1927-1939,” paper presented at the African Studies Association Annual Convention, Columbus, Ohio November 1997
- “Divine Madness: the Case if Nonteta, an Eastern Cape Prophetess, 1918-1935,” paper presented at the African Studies Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA, November 1996
- “The Future Past: A Historical Survey of Lesotho-South African Relations,” paper presented at the African Studies Association Annual Convention, Seattle, Washington, November 1992
- “Ralph Bunche in South Africa, 1937,” paper presented to the Afro-American-African Studies Seminar, Princeton University, April 1990
- “A.P. Mda: the Making of an African Nationalist, 1935-1944,” paper presented at the conference Structure and Experience in the Making of Apartheid
- History Workshop, Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa, February 6-10, 1990
- “Edwin Mofutsanyana and the Communist Party, 1935-1950,” paper presented at the African Studies Association Annual Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1989
- “Edwin Mofutsanyana: the Making of an African Communist,” paper presented at the African Studies Association Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, November 1988
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| Awards and Recognitions |
- Dr. Edgar was nominated for “African Studies Text Edition Prize” (1993). Recently, Dr. Edgar served on the following Boards:
- Nominating Committee, African Studies Association (1991)
- Board of Directors, African Policy Information Center and Africa Action (1992-)
- Executive Committee, Fund for the University of Namibia (1992-1994)
- Executive Committee, Institute for Culture and Development, Howard University (1993-1996)
- Adviser, Documentary Film on Ralph Bunche by Ralph Greaves (1992-2001) and launched on PBS in February, 2001
- Adviser, Documentary film on International Anti-Apartheid Movement by Connie Fields (1996-)
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| Additionally, Dr. Edgar has co-organized several conferences and served as visiting faculty at universities in the US and Lesotho and received numerous awards from Howard University and other institutions. These include the Howard University Faculty Research Award; various Fulbright Research awards; and a 3-year grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission for a documentary editing project on “African-American Historical Linkages with South Africa, 1890-1965” (1999-2002) |
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