Professor
Contact Information
Phone: 613-533-6000, ext 78248
Email: epprecht@queensu.ca
Fax: 613-533-2986
Mac Corry Hall B414
Global Development Studies
Queen's University
Kingston, ON K7L 3N6
Affiliations
Cross Appointed Professor:
Department of History
Cultural Studies Program
Academic Training
PhD (History) Dalhousie University
MA (History, Political Science, English) York University
BA (History, Political Science) York University
Research Interests
I am a professor of History and Global Development Studies. My research has focused primarily on issues of gender and sexuality in southern Africa but lately has shifted to concerns about social injustices arising from the climate crisis. I am particularly interested in supervising students who want to explore the complex legacies of colonialism and racial capitalism in Africa. My own recent work on the topic includes a social and political history of the management of impacts of environmental degradation in an urban setting, discussion of a community oral history project, and an analysis of new scholarship from southern Africa that seeks to reimagine urbanism and our future relationship with the changing climate.
Supervised Students
Dillon Smith, MA (DEVS), Re-Thinking China’s Development Strategy in the West: ‘Green Growth’ and Chinese Investment Experiences in Kenya
Hannah Ascough, PhD (DEVS), Reimagining Development Futures: The impact of COVID-19 on South African environmental charity responses to the climate crisis
Hannah Ascough, MA (DEVS), Living Happily Ever After: how degrowth charities perceive the future for women in South Africa
Darren Major, MA (DEVS), Intersections of Post-development theory with NGO discourse
Renee Rogers, MA (DEVS), Voluntourism
Toby Moorsom, PhD (History) , ‘Black Settlers’: Hybridity, Neoliberalism and Ecosystemic Change among Tonga Farmers in Southern Zambia.
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
Anne McNeely, MA (History), Pietermaritzburg's 'Sanitary Conscience': Race and Municipal Water Planning from 1900 to 1968
Selected Publications
Transformation discourses in southern Africa in COVID-19 perspective
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES / REVUE CANADIENNE DES ÉTUDES AFRICAINES https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2020.1848600
“Envisioning environmental justice in a secondary South African city,” in Jane Carruthers, Nancy Jacobs, Graeme Wynn (eds). Environment, Power, and Justice in South African History (forthcoming 2021).
Iain Edwards and Marc Epprecht. 2020. Working class homosexuality in South Africa. Voices from the archive. Pretoria and Cape Town: HSRC Press, Boulder: Lynne Reinner [https://www.rienner.com/title/Working_Class_Homosexuality_in_South_Afric...
Transition Discourses in Southern Africa: emerging scholarship, Canadian Journal of African Studies (2020) https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2020.1848600
Allison Goebel and Marc Epprecht, “Decolonizing an African Art Collection in Canada? Reflections on the exhibition “Stories to Tell: Africans and the Diaspora Respond to the Lang Collection” 2016-2018,” Canadian Journal of African Studies DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2020.1813600
Associate editor (Africa), for Howard Chiang (ed). Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History. Farmington Hills: Charles Scribner (2019)
Editor: Forum on Boy Wives, Female Husbands Twenty Years On: Reflections of scholarly activism and the struggle for human and sexual rights Canadian Journal of African Studies 52/3 (2018): 349-64
Envisioning environmental justice in a secondary South African city, in Jane Carruthers, Nancy Jacobs, Graeme Wynn (eds). Environment, Power, and Justice in South African History Athens OH: Ohio University Press, Ecology and History series (forthcoming)
Sexualities in Africa, In Oxford Bibliographies Online (obo in African Studies). Paul Zeleza (ed). New York: Oxford University Press (2020). doi: 10.1093/obo/9780199846733-0215
Sexuality, Secrecy, and Local Government in Early Twentieth-Century Edendale, South Africa: Notches Blog (2017) http://notchesblog.com/2017/02/28/sexuality-secrecy-and-local-government-in-early-twentieth-century-edendale-south-africa/
Welcome to Greater Edendale: Environment, Health, and the History of Development in an African City (MQUP, Nov. 2016) http://www.mqup.ca/welcome-to-greater-edendale-products-9780773547742.php
Michael Bailey, Paul Vasey, Lisa Diamond, Marc Breedlove, Eric Vilain, Marc Epprecht, “Sexual Orientation, Controversy, and Science,” Psychological Science in the Public Interest Vol. 17, 2(2016): 45–101 DOI: 10.1177/1529100616637616
Sexuality and Social Justice in Africa, rethinking homophobia and forging resistance. London: Zed Books (2013) https://scholar.zedbooks.net/publications/title/sexuality-and-social-justice-in-africa/
S. 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) www.mqup.ca/hungochani--first-edition-products-9780773527508.php
'This matter of women is getting very bad': Gender, development and politics in colonial Lesotho, 1870-1965. (Pietermaritzburg: U of Natal Press 2000)
Marc Epprecht and Sule E. Egya, Teaching about homosexualities in rural Nigeria: a trial run, Gender and Education 23/4: 367-384
Advancing the right to sexual orientation and 'erotic justice' in Africa through public health strategies, African Affairs 111/443, 223-243 (April 2012)
Sexuality, History, Africa, American Historical Review 116 (Dec. 2009): 1258-72
The Marquis de Sade's Zimbabwe Adventure: A Contribution to the Critique of 'African AIDS' Sexualities 10/2 (2007): 241-258