Department of Global Development Studies
Queen's UniversityMarc Epprecht
Professor & Head of Department, Global Development Studies
PhD (History) Dalhousie
Curriculum Vitae (PDF 403KB)
email: epprecht@queensu.ca
phone: x 78248
fax: 613-533-2986
Global Development Studies
Mac-Corry Hall B414
Office hours TBD
Research Interests:
Social history in southern Africa, especially the colonial era; gender and sexuality, especially cultural constructions of (and mechanisms to deal with) non-normative behaviours (lgbti, msm, wsw, etc); HIV/AIDS; environment and health, especially in urban contexts in South Africa; contestations over development anywhere in Africa but especially Zimbabwe, Lesotho, South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, and Pietermaritzburg; pedagogy for development (e.g., methods and ethics of work-study abroad programs)
Supervisory interests:
Anything that falls within the broad parameters above. Examples of graduate students and topics include:
Toby Moorsom, PhD (History) – Social History of Commercial Agriculture in Southern Zambia, 1930s-90s
Ralph Callebert, PhD (History) Livelihood Strategies among Dockworkers in Durban, 1900-1951
Mary Caesar PhD and MA (History) Gender, Politics and Social Medicine in South Africa, 1940-1959.
Adam Houston, MA (DEVS) Human Rights, HIV and TB in South Africa’s National Strategic Plan
Molly Egerdie, MA (History) Female-Female Sexuality in South African History
Hayley Morgan, MA (DEVS) Sexuality Education in Cape Town High School
Anne McNeely, MA (History) Pietermaritzburg’s ‘Sanitary Conscience’: Race and Municipal Water Planning from 1900 to 1968
Barbara Mahamba, MA (History UZ) “Women in the History of the Ndebele State,”, 1996)
Melusi Sibanda, MA (Religious Studies UZ) “Attitudes Towards Homosexuality among Christian Zimbabweans”
Other Appointments:
Cross Appointed Professor
History
Cross Appointment Professor
Cultural Studies
Courses:
DEVS 499: HIV in Global Perspective
Publications:
Sexuality and Social Justice in Africa, rethinking homophobia and forging resistance.London: Zed Books (in press for July 2013) http://zedbooks.co.uk/paperback/sexuality-and-social-justice-in-africa
Sybille Nyeck and Marc Epprecht (eds) Sexual Diversity in Africa: Politics, Theory and Citizenship.Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press (in press for Fall 2013)
Kathryn Fizzell and M. Epprecht, “Secondary School Experiential Learning Programs in the Global South: Critical reflections from an Ontario study,” in R. Tiessen and R. Huish (eds), When the World is Your Classroom. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (in press)
Rebecca Tiessen and M. Epprecht (eds), Ethical Issues in Learning/Volunteer Abroad, Special issue of Journal of Global Citizenship and Equity Education2 (Spring 2012)
Marc Epprecht and Charles Gueboguo (eds), New Perspectives on Sexualities in Africa - Special Issue of Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Spring 2009 43/1
Heterosexual Africa?: The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS Athens OH: Ohio University Press, Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press 2008 http://www.ohioswallow.com/book/Heterosexual+Africa%3F
Unspoken Facts: A History of Homosexualities in Africa (Editor and principal author). (Harare: GALZ and Ann Arbor: Africa Books Collective, 2008)
Hungochani: The history of a dissident sexuality in southern Africa (McGill-Queen’s U. Press, 2004, 2006, 2nd edition scheduled for Fall 2013) http://mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=1745
“This matter of women is getting very bad”: Gender, development and politics in colonial Lesotho, 1870-1965. (Pietermaritzburg: U of Natal Press 2000)