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Professor
Office: Herter 705
Telephone: (413) 545-1920
Fax: (413) 545-6137
E-mail: jeh@history.umass.edu
Degree: Ph.D., University of Michigan (1979).
Field(s) of interest: South Africa, comparative labor history.
Graduate Courses Offered:
Agriculture & Industry in S. Africa
and U.S. South (Not Online)
U.S. South and South Africa (Not Online)
Research Interests and Professional Activities
Publications include articles in African Economic History, International
Journal of African Historical Studies, and the Revue canadienne
des études africaines. A monograph entitled A Working Class
in the Making: The Union Miniere du Haut-Katanga and the African Mineworkers,
1907-1949, was published by University of Wisconsin Press in 1989.
At present he is working on a book entitled The Hidden Cost of Industrialization:
State Violence and the Economic Transformation of Southern Africa, 1900-1980.
His article "Liberating the Captives: Watchtower as an Avatar of Colonial
Revolt in Southern Africa and Katanga Province, Belgian Congo, 1907-1941,"
was published in The Journal of Social History. In 1993-94, he
was the recipient of the Research and Writing Fellowship from the MacArthur
Foundation. His "Shaping the Mirror of Sovereignty: The Quest for a
Democratic Society in the American South and South Africa, 1844-1902"
will appear in M.N. Matselela's South African and the United States:
The Protracted Encounter (New York: Verso Press, 1997). Higginson's
"Upending The Century of Wrong: Agrarian Elites, Collective Violence,
and the Transformation of State Power in the American South and South
Africa, 1865-1914," was published by Social Identities (Volume
4, Number 3) in 1998. His "Le Pari Congolais: Whose Congo? Whose Gamble"
appeared in the Belgian Historical Journal, Brood En Rozen (1999/2)
last year. He continues to work on his book on Violent Agrarian Elites
in South Africa and the American South. A chapter from the latter
book will be published in the Fall, 2001 issue of the Journal of Social
History under the title "Winning the Peace, Claiming the Future for
the Past: White Agrarian Elites and Collective Violence in South Africa's
Western Transvaal, 1900-1907."
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