Faculty & Staff

Curriculum Vitae

 

CONTACT INFORMATION
Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room B-414
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
K7L 3N6 Canada
Tel: (613) 533-6000 ext. 78248
Fax: (613) 533-2986
Email: epprecht@queensu.ca

OFFICE HOURS
TBA

COURSES - TBA

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Africa, gender and sexuality, health, masculinity, international development, environmental history, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Southern Africa

TEACHING INTERESTS

Teaching philosophy: un-learning is a critically important aspect of learning, which never stops. A small fraction happens in the classroom and your peers are a big part of that.

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)

BOOKS (SINGLE AUTHOR)

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, 2008)

WINNER: Melville J. Herskovits Finalist Award (2009), best book on Africa 2008

 

HONORARY MENTION: David Easton Award (Foundations of Political Theory Section of the American Political Science Association) 2010

 

NOMINEE: Joel Gregory Prize (2010), best book published on Africa by a Canadian or by an African based in Canada, 2008-09

 

Lambda Literary Award (2009), best book on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues

 

National Council on Public History Book Award (2009), “dedicated to making the past useful in the present and to encouraging collaboration between historians and their publics”

 

2. Hungochani: The history of a dissident sexuality in southern Africa (McGill-Queen’s U. Press, Oct. 2004)

WINNER: Joel Gregory Prize, best book published on Africa by a Canadian or by an African based in Canada, 2005-6

3. “This matter of women is getting very bad”: Gender, development and politics in colonial Lesotho, 1870-1965. Pietermaritzburg: U of Natal Press (2000)

 

BOOKS (PRINCIPAL OR CONTRIBUTING AUTHOR/EDITOR)

1. Editor and contributing author (with Sybille Nyeck and Mark Blasius. Genders and Sexualities in Africa. Buffalo: SUNY Press Queer Politics and Cultures (forthcoming).

2. With Charles Gueboguo, U. de Yaoundé:
New Perspectives on Sexualies in Africa - Special
Issue of Canadian Journal of African
Studies/Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Spring 2009 43/1

3. Unpoken facts: A History of Homosexualities in Africa. Harare: GALZ (2008)

4. Consulting editor and co-author, Understanding Human Sexuality and Gender. Harare: Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (2005)

5. Consulting editor and contributing author, D. Gerstner (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture (Routledge Press – 2002-2006)

 

REFEREED ARTICLES (SINGLE AUTHOR)

 

1. The making of ‘African sexuality’: early sources, current debates, History Compass (forthcoming 2010)

2. African traditional religions and same-sex sexuality, in Elias K Bongmba (ed.) A Companion to African Religion Oxford: Blackwell (forthcoming 2010)

3. Sexuality, History, Africa, American Historical Review 116 (Dec. 2009): 1258-72 3.

4. Resources for uncovering the history of same-sex sexualities in Africa south of the Sahara, Global South: SEPHIS-emagazine: South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development. 4/3 (April 2008) 15-21

5. The Marquis de Sade's Zimbabwe Adventure: A Contribution to the Critique of 'African Aids' Sexualities 10/2 (2007) :241-258

6. “Bisexuality” and the politics of normal in African Ethnography, Anthropologica 48/2 (2006): 187-201

7. Historias ‘ocultas’ de las homosexualidades en Africa, Estudios de Asia y Africa. Num. 130 Vol XLI (2), Mayo-Agosto (May-August, 2006): pp. 215-232

8. “Hidden” Histories of African Homosexualities, Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers de la Femme (Winter/Spring 2005), 24/2-3: 138-144

9. Black skin, “cowboy” masculinity: a genealogy of homophobia in the African nationalist movement in Zimbabwe to 1983, Culture, Health and Sexuality, special issue on African Sexualities (May 2005) 7/3: 253-266

10. Work/study abroad courses in international development studies: some ethical and pedagogical issues, Canadian Journal of Development Studies (Dec. 2004), XXV, 4: 709-728

11. Male-male sexuality in Lesotho: two conversations, Journal of Men’s Studies (Spring, 2002, special issue on African Masculinities), 10/3: 373-389

12. ‘What an abomination, a rottenness of culture’: Reflections upon the gay rights movement in sub-Saharan Africa, Canadian Journal of Development Studies (Volume XXII, Dec. 2001, Special Issue, Gender and the Civil Commons): 195-212

13. ‘Unnatural Vice’ in South Africa: The 1907 Commission of Enquiry, International Journal of African Historical Studies 34/4 (2001): 121-140

14. Une critique ‘beachienne’ de la littérature d’expression anglaise récente portant sur les femmes et la sexualité en Afrique subsaharienne, History in Africa: A Journal of Method 28 (2001): 345-360

 

Refereed Articles and Chapters (co-author)

 

1. Marc Epprecht and Sule E. Egya, Teaching about homosexualities in rural Nigeria: a trial run, Gender and Education (forthcoming 2010)

2. Charles Gueboguo and Marc Epprecht, “Extortion/blackmail of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgendered Persons in Africa: A case study from Cameroon,” in The Extortion Project, NY and Cape Town: International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (forthcoming 2010)

3. Allison Goebel and Marc Epprecht, “Women and Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Testing the World Bank and WID Models with a Lesotho Case Study,” African Studies Review 38/1 (April 1995): 1-23

 

 

BOOK REVIEWS, ESSAYS AND OTHER NEAT STUFF

1. Marriage To the Grave And Other Forms
Of Marriage, Sexuality in Africa Magazine 5/1
(2008): Sexuality in Africa Magazine.pdf

 

 

2. HIV/AIDS and Homophobia, The Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development (online - http://www.icad-cisd.com/pdf/e_Homophobia.pdf

3. Africanists and Responsibility: Some Reflections, African Studies Quarterly, Volume 7, Issue 2 & 3 Fall 2003 (online - Africanists and responsibility some reflections.pdf)

4. Why I Love African Studies, African Studies Quarterly, Volume 7, Issue 2 & 3 Fall 2003 (online - Why I Love African Studies.pdf)

5. Enriching Gender Studies in Sub-Saharan Africa, Canadian Journal of African Studies (Summer 2002), 36/1: 119-123

6. Class Acts I: Resources and Ideas for Un-Teaching about Africa, Canadian Journal of African Studies 35/2 (2001): 340-345

7.  Understanding Homophobia in Africa Today, Perspectives4/10 (2010) http://www.boell.org.za/downloads/Perspectives_4-10.pdf