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Name: Jeanne Marie Penvenne
Title: Associate Professor of History
Departmental Affiliation: History Department
Degrees: Ph.D. Boston University, M.A. Boston University;
B.S. Northeastern University, A.A. Berkshire Community College
Expertise: African History, Mozambique and Southern Africa, Comparative Women's History, Urbanization and Labor Migration
Major Awards: Scholarly Awards
1996 Herskovits Award Finalist for African Workers and Colonial Racism

Research Awards
Fulbright Award for Mozambique, 2004-2005
Collaborator, Mellon Foundation, Inter University Partnership,"Forced Migration and Humanitarian Studies, 2001-2003.
U.S. Speaker & Specialist Award Mozambique / Angola, 1998
African Regional Research Award for Southern Africa, Fulbright 1992-93
International Fellow, Gulbenkian Foundation, 1992-1993, 1977
Social Science Research Council, Int’l Doctoral Fellow, 1976-1978
Fulbright Dissertation Research Scholar to Portugal, 1976-77.

Teaching Awards
Lillian and Joseph Leibner Award for Distinguished Teaching and Advising, 2001
Lerman-Neubauer Prize for Outstanding Teaching and Advising, 1999
E-mail: Jeanne.penvenne@tufts.edu

Scholarship & Research: Books and Edited Collections:
"Portuguese Speaking Africa," Guest Editor of a Special Issue of International Journal of African Historical Studies Volume 36, No. 1 (Fall 2003)

African Workers and Colonial Racism; Mozambican Strategies for Survival in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique 1877-1962. Portsmouth: Heinemann, Social History of Africa Series, 1995.

Trabalhadores de Lourenço Marques, 1870 - 1974 . Maputo: Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique, 1993 [Estudos, 9]

Articles and Chapters:
"Settling against the Tide: The Layered Contradictions of Twentieth Century Portuguese Settlement in Mozambique," chapter 3 in Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century: Projects, Practices and Legacies Edited by Caroline Elkins and Susan Pederson. (New York: Routledge, 2005)

"'A xikomo xa lomu, iku tira' Citadines africaines à Lourenço Marques (Mozambique), 1945-1975," Le Mouvement Social , 204, julliet-septembre (2003):81-92.

"Power, Poets and the People - Mozambican Voices Interpreting History" co-authored with Prof. Bento Sitoe, Social Dynamics. Vol. 26, No. 2 (2000): 55-86. Special issue dedicated to the memory of Leroy Vail, Professor of African History, Harvard University [published January, 2002 not 2000 as stated on the issue]

"Gender Studies, Area Studies, and the New History, with Special Reference to Africa" [http://womencrossing.org/penvenne.html] in Curricular Crossings: Women's Studies and Area Studies - A Web Anthology for the College Classroom. [http://womencrossing.org/] Launched 26 October 2000.

“Poppie Nongena and South African History,” in Jean Hay, ed. African Novels in the Classroom (Boulder, Lynne Reinner, 2000):153-166.

"A Tapestry of Conflict: Mozambique 1960-1995," in David Birmingham and Phyllis Martin, eds. History of Central Africa; The Contemporary Years (London, Longman, 1998): 230-266.

"Seeking the Factory for Women, Mozambican Urbanization in the Late Colonial Era," Journal of Urban History Vol. 23, No. 3 (March, 1997): 342-379.

"João dos Santos Albasini (1876-1922); The Contradictions of Politics and Identity in Colonial Mozambique," Journal of African History, Vol. 37, No. 3 1996):417-464.

"'We are all Portuguese!': Challenging the Political Economy of Assimilation, Lourenço Marques, 1870 to 1933," in Leroy Vail, editor, The Creation of Tribalism in Southern Africa (Berkeley: University of California, 1989): 255-288.

"Labor Struggles at the Port of Lourenço Marques, 1900-1933," Review; Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems and Civilizations, "The Struggle for Southern Africa, Special Issue Dedicated to the Memory of Ruth First, 8, 2 (1984): 249-285.

"'Here Everyone Walked with Fear': The Mozambican Labor System and the Workers of Lourenço Marques, 1945-1962," in Frederick Cooper, editor, Struggle for the City: Migrant Labor, Capital and the State (Berkeley, Sage, 1983): 131-166.

"Chibalo e Classe Operária: Lourenço Marques, 1870-1962," Estudos Moçambicanos, 2 (1982): 9-26.

"Paradigms, Pedagogy and Politics; Thinking about Africa in the Twenty First Century" Review Article in International Journal of African Historical Studies, Volume 29, No. 2 (1996):337-343.

"A Luta Continua," International Journal of African Historical Studies, 18, 1 (1985): 109-138.

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