Michael R. Mahoney
Associate Professor
Office: HGS 209
Phone: (203) 432-1393
Email: michael.r.mahoney@yale.edu
Links: Curriculum Vitae
Michael Mahoney came on board as an assistant
professor in the field of modern South African history in 2000. He received his BA from Connecticut College in 1991 and his MA and PhD from UCLA, in 1994 and 1998. Both a committed scholar and an experienced and dedicated teacher, he has taught at a number of academic institutions including UCLA, the University of Natal in South Africa, University of California, Davis, University of California, San Diego and, most recently, Franklin and Marshall College.
His dissertation, Between the Zulu King and the Great White Chief: Political Culture in a Natal Chiefdom, 1879-1906, examines the African responses to white settler power, what he calls the "African appropriation of European colonialist initiatives."
His article, "The Millennium Comes to Mapumulo: Popular Christianity in Rural Natal, 1866-1906" (Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 25, no. 3, September 1999), focuses on the historical paradox of missionary efforts to keep Africans out of Christianity in order to forestall the rebelliousness that Christianity caused. He has also written "Estado Novo, Homem Novo: Fascist versus Afro-Marxist Ideologies of Development in Mozambique, 1961-1977."
His undergraduate courses include The History of Southern Africa, History of Modern Africa, and International Development in Historical Perspective. His graduate courses include Orality and Memory in African History, The Culture of Colonialism in African History, and Women and Gender in African History.
