Tiffany Willoughby-Herard

Assistant Professor, African American Studies School of Humanities
Faculty Affiliate, Women's Studies
Faculty Affiliate, Queer Studies Minor
Ph.D., UC SANTA BARBARA, 2003, POLITICAL SCIENCE

3224 Humanities Gateway
Irvine, CA 6850

Phone: (949) 824-7035
Email: twilloug@uci.edu

Fields of Interest:
South Africa, poor whites, race in foreign policy, diaspora, comparative racial politics, black political thought, third world feminisms, feminist pedagogy, decolonizing theory, comparative political theory, community and civic engagement

Publications
'Waste of a White Skin': Carnegie and the Making of White Misery, In progress

2009. “Comparative Political Thought, Interdisciplinarity, and the History of the Carnegie Poor
White Study in South Africa, 1927-1932.” Conference Proceedings for the South African Historical Society. 1-20.

2008. “The Rape of an Obstinate Woman: Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth.” Shout Out: Women of Color Respond to Violence. Eds. Barbara K. Ige and Maria Ochoa. Seal Press, pp.264-280.

2007. “South Africa’s Poor Whites and Whiteness Studies: Afrikaner Ethnicity, Scientific Racism, and White Misery,” New Political Science: A Journal of Politics and Culture. Vol. 29, number 3. December, pp. 479-500.

2006. “On Outlaws and Upstarts: Identity, African Diaspora Studies, and Anthropology,” Kroeber Anthropological Society: Special Issue on Race and Anthropology, Race in Anthropology 95, pp. 40-78.

2005. “Writing in Solidarity: The New Generation.” Race and Class: Special Issue on Cedric J. Robinson. Vol. 47, number 2. October. 88-99.

2005."Student Journalism: Writing and Perseverance Beyond the Culture Wars, the End of History, the New World Order and the Clash of Civilizations." Conference Proceedings of the University of Michigan Futuring Diversity Conference.


BOOK REVIEWS
Forthcoming. Book Review. Appalachian Aspirations: The Geography of Urbanization and Development in the Upper Tennessee River Valley, 1865-1900 (University of Tennessee Press 2007) by John Benhart. Urban Geography. Journal Number not Assigned Yet. Pages 1-3.

2007. Book Review. “Of Social Contracts, Citizens, Customers, and the Process of Administrative Reform in South Africa: Karen Miller’s Public Sector Reform: Governance in South Africa.” Progress in Development Studies 7, 2, pp. 173-176.

2006. Book Review. Mandela’s World: The International Dimension of South Africa’s Political Revolution by James Barber. International Journal of African Historical Studies 39, 1.

2006. Book Review. Africa Policy in the Clinton Years: Critical Choices for the Bush Administration by J. Stephen Morrison and Jennifer G. Cooke (Eds.) International Journal of African Historical Studies 39, 1.

2006. Book Review. U.S. Policy in Postcolonial Africa: Four Case Studies in Conflict Resolution by F. Ugboaja Ohaegbulam. International Journal of African Historical Studies 39, 1.