CH. DIDIER GONDOLA

Associate Professor of History. B.A.. University of Paris-1, 1987; M.A. University of Paris-7, 1988; Ph.D. (Doctorat de l’Université), 1993.

Teaching specialties: social history of Central and West Africa, slavery and slave trade, ancient Africa and West African kingdoms, colonization and colonial changes, popular cultures and gender issues in colonial and postcolonial Africa.

Research Interests: Fashion and postcolonial identities among the African Diasporas; comparative migration of Black Africans, African-Americans, and North Africans to France.

Selected Publications: The History of Congo (Greenwood Press, 2002); Villes miroirs: migrations et identités urbaines à Brazzaville et Kinshasa, 1930-1970 (L’Harmattan, 1997). Articles in African Studies Review, Bayreuth African Studies Review, Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, Politique Africaine, Le Mouvement Social, Cahiers d’Études Africaines, Brood & Rozen, Tijdschrift voor de Geschiedenis van Sociale Bewegingen, Revue Française d’Histoire d’Outre-mer, Afrique Contemporaine, Zaïre-Afrique, Clio. Chapters: “But I Ain’t African, I’m American! Black American Exiles and the Construction of Racial Identities in Twentieth-Century France,” in Heike Raphael-Hernandez (ed.), Blackening Europe: The African American Presence, pp. 201-215 (Routledge, 2003); “Bisengo ya la joie: fête, sociabilité et politique dans les capitales congolaises,” in Odile Goerg (ed.), Fêtes urbaines en Afrique. Espaces, identités et pouvoirs, pp. 87-111 (Karthala, 1999); “Popular Music, Urban Society, and Changing Gender Relations in Kinshasa, Zaire,” in Maria Grosz-Ngaté & Omari H. Kokole (eds), Gendered Encounters: Challenging Cultural Boundaries and Social Hierarchies in Africa, pp. 65-84 (Routledge, 1996).

Office: CA 503P
Phone: (317) 274-8160
gondola@iupui.edu