Dr. Jesse W. Bucher
Associate Professor
Department: History
Office: 131 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, East Africa, World History, History of the Atlantic World, Postcolonial Studies, Environmental History
Scholarly Activities
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Programme on the Study of the Humanities in Africa, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, 2011
MacArthur Fellow, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, University of Minnesota, 2004-10
Extracurricular
Coordinator, African and African Diaspora Studies Concentration
African Music Club
Recent Publications
"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
Recent Presentations
'Biko and Repression,' African Studies Association Annual Meeting, 2014
'Mandela and 1989,' Global Struggles for Social Justice Lecture, The College of New Jersey, 2014
'The Politics of Tolerance in 1950s Tanzania,' African Studies Association Annual Meeting, 2013
'Law and Liberation in Steve Biko’s SASO/BPC Testimony,'African Literature Association, 2013
'Care, Recovery, and the Politics of Transition in South Africa,' Africana Studies Lecture, Bard College, 2012
Available as a Media resource for the following topics
South African history and politics.
Willing to speak to professional, social or civic groups on
South African history and politics.