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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Merle L. Bowen

Merle L. Bowen

Associate Professor
265 Computing Applications Bldg
605 E. Springfield
Champaign, Illinois 61820
(217) 333-2956
bowen@illinois.edu


Ph.D., 1986, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

research interests:

Politics in Africa and the African Diaspora; Race, Ethnicity and Gender; Agrarian Issues and Rural Policy; Social Movements and Globalization in the Postcolonial World

Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements for Teaching

  • 2007

    List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students PS 341, Govt & Pol of Africa, Spring 2007

     
    (2007)

Books Authored or Co-Authored (Original Editions)

  • The State Against the Peasantry: Rural Struggles in Colonial and Postcolonial Mozambique (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2000).

Journal Articles

  • "Beyond Images: Gaps in the Research on Brazil's Contemporary Quilombo Communities" forthcoming 2008

  • "Land Reform and Black Community Land Rights in Neoliberal Mozambique and Brazil," forthcoming, 2008

  • "Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Revisionism in Postcolonial Africa: The Case of Mozambique, 1975-1994." By Alice Dinerman, London and New York: Routledge, 2006, African Studies Review (forthcoming, 2008)

  • "Strategic Women, Gainful Men: Gender, Land and Natural Resources in Different Rural Contexts in Mozambique."  Edited by Rachel Waterhouse and Carin Vijfhuizen, Maputo: University of Eduardo Mondlane and ActionAid, 2001. Journal of Agrarian Change, 5, 3 (2005): 447-449

  • "Post-Independence Agrarian Change and Landownership Policy in Mozambique." Minneapolis: Institute of International Studies, University of Monnesota. Working Paper No. 4, Series 4, 1991.
  • "Land Struggles and Social Differentiation in Souther Mozambique." By Kenneth Hermele, Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studes, 1998.  The International Journal of African Historial Studies 22, 4 (1989); 729-31

  • "The Life History of Raul Honwana, An Inside View of Mozambique from Colonialism to Independence, 1905-1975."  By Raul Honwana, Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc, 1988. African Studies Review  24, 2 (1989): 118-20

  • "Estudo Sobre as Mulheres Camponesas em Lionde, Chokwe.  Maputo: Dirceccao Nacional de Desenvolvimento Rural, Centro de Formacao Agraria, Ministerio da Agricultura, 1987.
  • "Peasant Agriculture in Mozambique: The Case of Chokwe, Gaza Province," Canadian Journal of African Studies  23, 3 (1989): 355-379.  Reprinted in "Agricultura Camponesa em Mozambique: O Case do Chokwe, na Provincia de Gaza," Arquivo, Boletim o Arquivo Historico de Mozambique 7, (1990): 5-44.
  • "Economic Crisis in Mozambique", Current History, May 1990, 217-2230, 226-228