Thomas Turner

Region of Interest

Africa

Primary Country of Residence

United States of America

Title

Adjunct Professor of Political Science

Affiliation

Virginia Commonwealth University, Harrisonburg, Virginia

Email

tommyagain@yahoo.com

Mailing Address

Virginia Commonwealth University
9402 Black Hawk Court
Manassas Park, Virginia 20111 USA

Phone/Fax Number(s)

phone: 304-650-3999

Countries of Specialization

Rwanda

Research Interests

Works on conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo and central Africa

Teaching Interests

Works on conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo and central Africa

Publications

"The Nth Congo War and Preventing N+1," CSIS Online Africa Policy Forum,
November 5, 2007.

"Congo-Kinshasa: leaning toward federalism," Federations. vol. 7, no. 1
(October/November 2007)

"War and Identity in DR Congo," co-authored with Irène Safi and presented
to South Eastern Regional Seminar on African Studies (SERSAS), Winthrop
University, March 2007.

The Congo Wars: Conflict, Myth, and Reality. Zed Books, 2007.

"Nationalism, Historiography, and the (Re)construction of the Rwandan
Past." In Nationalism, Historiography and the (Re)Construction of the
Past. Claire Norton (ed.) New Academia Press, 2006.

"The Congolese Revolution," In Revolutionary Movements in World History
from 1970 to the Present. Jim de Fronzo (ed.) ABC-Clio, 2006.

"Colonialism and neo-colonialism in Democratic Congo," Horizons:
perspectives on a global Africa. E. Abiri and H. Thörn, (eds.) Lund,
Studentlitteratur, 2005: 93-119.

"Gender Policy, Women's Political Participation, and Development in the
Great Lakes Region." Co-authored with Irène Safi. OSSREA Bulletin, I, No. 1
(February 2004), 17-25).

"Angola's Role in the Congo War," The African Stakes of the Congo War.
John F. Clark (ed.), Palgrave, 2002.

"In Focus: War in the Democratic Republic of the Congo." U.S. Foreign
Policy in Focus. A Project of the Institute for Policy Studies and the
Interhemispheric Resource Center, April 2000.

Ethnogenèse et nationalisme en Afrique centrale: les racines de
Lumumba, Harmattan, 2000.

"Paper presented to Colloquium on Constitutionalism, organized by
Departments of Political Science, University of Bologna and University of
Tunis III, Tunis, April 29, 1999.

"In Focus: War in the Congo." U.S. Foreign Policy in Focus. A Project of
the Institute for Policy Studies and the Interhemispheric Resource Center,
January 1999.

"The Constitutional Underpinnings of the U.S. Political System," keynote
presentation, American Studies Conference, Cairo University, November 17,
1998.

"'Lumumba délivre le Congo de l'esclavage': comment Patrice Lumumba
est devenu l'incarnation du nationalisme congolais," Actualités
juridiques tunisiennes, 1997.

"Kabila Returns, in a Cloud of Uncertainty." African Studies Quarterly, I
(1 1997).

"Tunisia: on the Southern Shore of Modernity," paper presented at
colloquium, Le Maghreb à la Croisie des Cultures, Hammamet, 1997.

"Flying High Above the Toads: Mobutu and Stalemated Democratization in
Zaire," in Political Reform in Francophone Africa, John Clark and David
Gardinier, eds., Westview, 1997.

Keywords

conflict ; Democratic Republic of Congo ; central Africa ; nationalism ; historiography.