l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Professor of History

Alma College, Alma, Michigan

furlong@alma.edu

Department of History
Alma College
614 W. Superior Street
Alma, Michigan 48801 USA

phone: (989) 463-7254
fax: (989) 463-7277

South Africa

Politics of AIDS in South Africa; Allied responses to Axis and pro-Axis
activities in South Africa during World War II; Afrikaner nationalism
(especially in 1930s and 1940s)

Activities:
Member, editorial advisory board, South African Historical Journal; active
as book reviewer for variety of American and South African-based journals

(i) South African and (introductory) African history;
(ii) modern European history, including Comparative Fascism, Modern
Germany, and Europe 1914-1945;
(iii) undergraduate overseas research seminar on World War II in National
Archives, Kew, London

"South Africa," in Donald and April Gordon, eds., Understanding Contemporary
Africa (Boulder, CO and London: Lynne Rienner, 3rd ed. 2001), pp.371-407.

"The Bonds of War: The African National Congress, the Communist Party of
South Africa and the Threat of `Fascism,'" South African Historical Journal
36 (1997): 68-87.

(with Karen L. Ball) "From Apartheid to Development: Science Policy and the
Politics of Race in South Africa," New Contree 45 (Sept. 1999): 117-133.

"`Ever New!' Pragmatism and the Politics of Survival in the National Party
1914-2000," New Contree 47 (Sept. 2000): 63-83.

politics ; aids ; Axis ; Afrikaners ; nationalism.