Mac Dixon-Fyle

Dixon-Fyle, McSamuel (Mac) Richmond
A. W. Crandall Professor of History and Professor of History
History
History, Harrison Hall, Room 219
765-658-4588
macdixon@depauw.edu

About Professor Dixon-Fyle

I teach courses on African Nationalism, South Africa, and Modern Africa generally, and these deal, in part, with issues of the recovery of sovereignty in the final years of colonial rule, and the multifarious challenges of ethnic competition, racial politics, praetorian intervention, economic decline, internecine strife, and state collapse that have often been the bane of the emergent African state.  Although I have no formal training in Conflict Theory, my courses examine situations and modes of conflict extensively, and lend themselves organically to analyses against a backcloth of paradigms of conflict, the application of which might be crucial to an understanding of Africa's current location in global relations.  My research interests in Northern Rhodesian/Zambian nationalist history,and in the tensions consequent on internal migrations within the African continent, provide very rich fields for fruitful exploration of the subject.

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