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David H. Anthony III

David H. Anthony III   
David H. Anthony III
    Title:  Associate Professor
    Type:  Faculty Member
    Concentration:  The Americas and Africa
    Email:  danthony@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-4028 Office
(831) 459-1924 Message
    Office:  532 Humanities 1
    Office Hours:  Fall 2009: Tuesdays 10:00a - 11:30a and Wednesdays 9:00a - 11:00a

Courses Taught 
HIS-121A-01 - African American History to 1877
HIS-121B-01 - African American History, 1877 to present
HIS-137A-01 - Africa to 1800
HIS-137B-01 - Africa, 1800-Present
HIS-137C-01 - African Cinema
HIS-190N-01 - Topics in African History
HIS-190O-01 - African American Historigraphy
HIS-30-01 - The Making of Modern Africa

Research Focus 
African and African-American history, art, music, literature and cinema; eastern and southern Africa; African Languages; Indian Ocean wold; African and African American linkages; Islamic civilization; African diaspora studies; world history

Education History 
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Selected Publications 
Enduring Questions about Diamonds, December 11th, 2006. Interview with "To The Point" on KCRW. Listen to Podcast

Max Yergan Encounters South Africa: Theological Perspectives On Race Max Yergan: Race Man, Internationalist, Cold Warrior New York, New York University Press, 2006

Talk of the Bay radio interview on KUSP 88.9, March 27th, 2006. Discussion behind the mystery of Max Yergan, black activist turned apartheid supporter. Listen Here

"Unwritten History: African Work in the YMCA of South Africa," History in Africa: A Journal of Method 32 (2005), 435-444 more info

"African Film Festivals in Focus," Documentary Box 24: Quarterly Journal of the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Tokyo (March 10, 2005)

"Max Yergan Encounters South Africa: Theological Perspectives on Race," Journal of Religion in Africa 34:3 (2004): 235-65 Link 1 Link 2

"Crossing The Water: African-American Historical Linkages with South Africa." Co-editor with Robert R. Edgar and Robert T. Vinson (Ohio Press, forthcoming) more info

"'The Men of Me': Max Yergan and the 'Bantu Section'of the South African YMCA Association," in Black Modernity: Discourses Between the United States and South Africa, Ntongela Masilela, ed. (in press: Africa World Press, Trenton, 2004).

"Islam in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania." Studies in Contemporary Islam. Volume 4, Number 2 (Fall 2002)
Studies in Contemporary Islam

African Lliberation Poster Art. Curator. June-Sept 2002:
UCSC Library
, California Learning Resource Network, UCSC Currents

"Max Yergan in South Africa: A Transatlantic Interaction." Imagining Home: Class, Culture and Nationalism in African Diaspora, R. Kelley and S. Lemelle, eds. London and New York: Verso, 1994.

"South African People's History." History from South Africa: Alternative Visions and Practices, J. Brown et al., eds., 277-86. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991.