My thesis sets out to explore the foreign policy of the African National Congress (ANC) 1960-2005, with a particular focus on its relations with Southern Africa. The investigation starts by looking at how the ANC interacted with nations such as Botswana and Tanzania during its time in exile and the extent it relied upon these to maintain its liberation struggle. A key aspect of the study is the ways in which the foreign policy ideals of the ANC were influenced and altered by external interests. I will then examine whether these original links continued in a similar manner or drastically changed after 1994 when the ANC, elected as the ruling party of South Africa, was faced with the realities of international politics.
Academic Background
University of Sheffield, MA in Historical Research (Distinction)
University of Sheffield, History (2.1, Hons.)
Teaching
I have been an Associate Tutor in the department since 2008/09, teaching on HST 117: The Making of the Twentieth Century.
Published Work
‘Cold War in Southern Africa’, Africa Spectrum, 45, 1, (2010), 131-139;
‘Finding Foreign Policy: Researching in Five South African Archives’, History in Africa, 37, (2010);
Forthcoming: Covert Collusion? American and South African relations during the Angolan Civil War, 1974-1976, African Historical Review;
Conference Papers
Covert Collusion? American and South African relations during the Angolan Civil War, 1974-1976, `Writing Change: Transitions in African History' at the University of Sheffield, 18th-19th May 2009.
Coming in from the cold: The Transitional Executive Council and South Africa’s reintegration into the international community, ‘The Commonwealth at Sixty: Transitions, Belonging and Identity’ at the University of Sheffield, 3rd June 2010.
Book Reviews
`Beyond the Border War: New Perspectives on South Africa´s Late Cold War Conflicts´, edited by Gary Baines and Peter Vale, South African Historical Journal, 61, 2 (2009), pp. 429-430;
‘Cold War in Southern Africa: White Power, Black Liberation’, edited by Sue Onslow, African Historical Review, 42, 2 (2010) – forthcoming;
‘Diamonds, Dispossession & Democracy in Botswana’, Kenneth Good, Political Studies Review, (May, 2011);
‘The Dark Sahara: America's War on Terror in Africa’, Jeremy Keenan, Political Studies Review, (May, 2011).
Other Information
In conjunction with Kate Law and Matt Carnell I organise the Imperial and International History Discussion Group, which meets twice a month. In June 2010 we held our annual conference entitled 'The Commonwealth at 60: Transitions, Belonging and Identities' at the Humanities Research Institute. For more information on our activities or if you wish to give a paper at a discussion group please see our webpage here.
From 2008 I have been a Peer Reviewer for the Cold War History Journal
