Dr. Jesse W. Bucher
Associate Professor
Director of the Center for Studying the Structures of Race
David F Bittle College Historian
Department: History
Office: 314 Bank Building
540-375-2049
bucher@roanoke.edu
Degrees
B.A., The College of New Jersey
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Research & Teaching Interests
Modern Africa, South Africa, History of Slavery, World History, Postcolonial Studies, Environmental History
Extracurricular
Director, Center for Studying Structures of Race
College Historian
Coordinator, African and African Diaspora Studies Concentration
Recent Publications
“Boycott and Sanctions as Tactics in the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement” – Co-authored book chapter with Stuart Davis in Sanctions as War Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy, Brill, December 2021.
“Theatre and Performance in Alternative Histories of Steve Biko’s Death in Detention," Theatre Survey, Vol. 61, No. 2, May 2020.
"The Skull of Mkwawa and the Politics of Indirect Rule in Tanganyika," Journal of Eastern African Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2016
"The Possibility of Care: Medical Ethics and the Death of Steve Biko," Journal of Asian and African Studies, Vol. 47, No. 5, 2012