Daniel R. Magaziner
Assistant Professor
Office: 320 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 254-5334
Fax: (607) 255-0469
E-Mail: drm236@cornell.edu
Office Hours: W 2:00-4:00
Research and Teaching Interests
I am a historian of 20th century African history, specializing in South African intellectual and religious history. My first project traces the conceptual and political development of what became known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the 1970s. Broadly transnational, it considers the impact that the global 1960s had on South African political thought and the ways in which abstract theories - from existentialism to theology - were made to work in the struggle against apartheid. My second project in many ways continues this inquiry by offering a macro-history of ethics and the political imagination in 20th century South Africa.
I teach surveys on colonial Africa and the broad sweep of South African history, as well as seminars on Christianity in Africa, comparative urban history, the African Diaspora, African environmental history and other topics. Future teaching plans include a survey of East African history, as well as seminars on a variety of topics.
Courses
| Fall 2009: | 4271 |
African Environmental History Syllabus |
|---|---|---|
| Spring 2010: | 2461 |
Reading and Writing the African Diaspora |
2540 |
African Encounters with Colonialism |
Education
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2007
M.A. University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2003
B.A. Northwestern University, 1999
Recent Publications and Awards
Publications
The Law and the Prophets: Politics, Faith and Hope in South Africa, 1968 - 1977 (under contract with Ohio University Press in the New African Histories series)
"Removing the Blinders and Adjusting the View: A Case Study from Sierra Leone," History in Africa, Vol. 34 2007.
"Christ in context: Developing a Political Faith in Apartheid South Africa" Radical History Review 99 Fall 2007.
"Liberating the Black Messiah: American Black Theology, Race and Faith in Apartheid South Africa"
Maryland Historian, Winter 2004-2005.
Awards
Fulbright Hays DDRA Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education (2005-2006)
Doris G. Quinn Fellowship, History Department, University of Wisconsin - Madison. (2006-2007) Recipient of inaugural department-wide fellowship for final year of dissertation.
AC Jordan Prize for Best Essary in African Studies, African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin - Madison. (2004) Recipient of award given annually for the best M.A. in African Studies at the University
of Wisconsin - Madison.
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education. Portuguese. (2003-2004).
FLAS Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education. Swahili. (2001-2003)
FLAS Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, Zulu (Summer 2002)