Slade

Virgil SladeAssistant Professor of History

Joined faculty in 2018

Ph.D. – University of Minnesota, Department of History (2020)
M.A. – University of the Western Cape, Department of History (2010)
B.A. Honour’s – University of the Western Cape, Department of History (2006)
B.A. – University of the Western Cape, Departments of History and Psychology (2004)

Contact Information

Henry House

Scholarly Interest

  • Critical Race Theory
  • Postcolonial Theory
  • Sport and Social Change

Courses Taught

Africa: From Colonialism to Neo-colonialism

Early Africa and its Global Contacts

Introduction to Africana Studies: The African Experience

Lives of Consequence

Pandemics, Race, and Settler Colonialsm

Soccer: Around the World with the Beautiful Game

South Africa in Transition

The Invention of Africa

Unfreedoms and the Problem of Race