Christopher J. Lee

Biography

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