Christopher J. Lee

b. 1973, Austin
Lives and works in Sharjah

Christopher J. Lee is Professor of African History, World History and African Literature at The Africa Institute, Sharjah. He has held a range of faculty appointments in Africa and North America, including at Stanford University, Harvard University, Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, the University of North Carolina, Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania; and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He has authored publications such as Culture and Liberation: Exile Writings, 1966–1985 (London and Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2022); Kwame Anthony Appiah (Routledge, 2021); Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives (Ohio University Press, 2010); A Soviet Journey: A Critical Annotated Edition (Lexington Books, 2019); Jet Lag (Bloomsbury, 2017); Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism (Ohio University Press, 2015); and Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa (Duke University Press, 2014), among others. He has also edited or co-edited special issues of Radical History Review (2018), Kronos: Southern African Histories (2011) and Safundi (2007). His work has also appeared in a range of edited volumes, including India after World History: Literature, Comparison, and Approaches to Globalization (Leiden University Press, 2022); The League Against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives (Leiden University Press, 2020); Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking: Toward New Comparative Methodologies and Disciplinary Formations (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020); and The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire (Oxford University Press, 2018). Lee earned a PhD in African History from Stanford University (2003). Born in 1973 in Austin, he currently lives and works in Sharjah. SAF participation: March Meeting 2023