Christopher J. Lee

Christopher J. Lee is a Research Associate at WiSER. He is the author of Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa (Duke University Press, 2014), Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism (Ohio University Press and Jacana Media, 2015), and the editor of Making a World After Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives (Ohio University Press, 2010). Lee received his PhD from Stanford University, and he has conducted field and archival work in Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa, Great Britain, Italy, Indonesia, the West Bank, and the United States, in addition to living and working in Botswana and Mozambique. His articles and reviews have appeared in the Journal of African History, the American Historical Review, Social History, Law and History Review, Politique Africaine, Gender and History, Transition, Radical History Review, Research in African Literatures, College Literature, Journal of Family History, Postcolonial Studies, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Kronos: Southern African Histories, the South African Historical Journal, and a number of edited volumes. His journalism and commentary have appeared in the Mail & Guardian (South Africa), the Cape Times (South Africa), Le Monde Diplomatique, Foreign Policy, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Christian Science Monitor. His photography has appeared in the New York Times, Jerusalem Quarterly, Postcolonial Studies, and Transition. He previously taught in the United States and Canada at Stanford, Harvard, and Dalhousie Universities and at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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