Thomas V. McClendon Associate Professor of History Chair of the Division of Humanities MA, PhD, Stanford University JD, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley BA, Pomona College Location: MBH 214 Phone: 512-863-1414 History Home Page

ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD Associate Professor, Southwestern University, 2003-present Assistant Professor, Southwestern University, 1998-2003 Visiting Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, 1997-98 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, 1995-96   CAREER AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS Brown Fellowship, 2001-02 Sam Taylor Fellowship, 2001-02 NEH Summer Fellowhsip, 1997 SSRC Dissertation Fellowship, 1991-92 Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Fellowship, 1991-92 COURSES TAUGHT African History Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds Gender and Generation in Africa Historiography Law and History Modern South Africa Slavery in the Atlantic World   RESEARCH AREAS South African history, focusing on: Law and colonialism, gender and generation, land and labor   REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS "You Are What You Eat Up: Deposing Chiefs in Early Colonial Natal, 1847-58," Journal of African History, v. 47, no. 2 (2006): 259-79. "The Man Who Would Be Inkosi: Civilising Missions in Shepstone's Early Career," Journal of Southern African Studies, 30 (2004): 339-58. Genders and Generations Apart: Labor Tenants and Customary Law in Segregation-Era South Africa, 1920s to 1940s (Heinemann, 2002).   MORE INFORMATION History Department Home Page Genders and Generations Apart Curriculum Vita