Contact
Email:
leechris@lafayette.edu
Website:
https://christopherjlee.org/
Further Information
Fellow during the summer term 2021
Dr. Christopher J. Lee is currently an Associate Professor of History and Acting Chair of the Program in Africana Studies at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. He completed his Ph.D. in African history at Stanford University, and he has held teaching appointments at Stanford, Harvard, Dalhousie University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
e has published six books on modern African history and global history, including Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa (2014), Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism (2015), A Soviet Journey: A Critical Annotated Edition (2017), Jet Lag (2017), and Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives (2019 [2010]), which has recently been published in a second edition. His book Kwame Anthony Appiah (2021) appeared in May, and his book Culture and Liberation: Exile Writings, 1966-1985 (2021), a volume of work by the South African writer and activist Alex La Guma (1925-85), is forthcoming this September. He has edited or coedited three special journal issues, two on southern African history and the third an issue of Radical History
Review on the Global South.
He is also currently a Contributing Editor for Africa is a Country (https://africasacountry.com/). Lee will be working on a book about decolonization and revolution in world history, under contract with Polity.