The Contemporary History Institute presents Dr. Elizabeth Schmidt on“Foreign Intervention in Africa During the Cold War: The Struggle of East, West, and North for the Global South” on Thursday, Jan. 28, at 4:30 p.m. in Baker 240.
Dr. Elizabeth Schmidt
Schmikdt is a professor of history at Loyola University Maryland and she received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her books include: Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror (Cambridge University Press, 2013); Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946-1958 (Ohio University Press, 2007) which received the African Politics Conference Group’s 2008 Best Book Award; Mobilizing the Masses: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Nationalist Movement in Guinea, 1939-1958 (Heinemann, 2005) which received Alpha Sigma Nu’s Book Award for History, also in 2008; Peasants, Traders, and Wives: Shona Women in the History of Zimbabwe, 1870-1939 (Heinemann; James Currey; Baobab, 1992); and Decoding Corporate Camouflage: U.S. Business Support for Apartheid (Institute for Policy Studies, 1980). Her next book, Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War, will be published by Ohio University Press.
In addition to her monographs, Schmidt has published a number of articles in such journals as the American Historical Review, the Journal of African History, the Journal of Southern African Studies, the African Studies Review, African Affairs, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.
This event is free and open to the public.
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