Gail Gerhart
Professor Gail M. Gerhart is the author of several books on South African political history. Gail Gerhart published Black Power in South Africa (University of California Press) in 1978, and is the co-author of four volumes in the historical series From Protest to Challenge which chronicles over a hundred years of the struggle for democracy in South Africa. Gail Gerhart has also worked on behalf of human rights in Africa in several ways. From 1977 to 1979 she represented the International Rescue Committee in Kenya, providing medical services to refugees from Uganda, Ethiopia, and South Africa. Gail Gerhart later served on the advisory committee of Human Rights Watch/Africa from 1990 to 2008.
Gail Gerhart graduated from Harvard University in 1966 and completed a PhD at Columbia University in Public Law and Government in 1974. Gail Gerhart has taught at Columbia University, The American University in Cairo, the University of Nairobi, the University of Botswana, and the University of the Witwatersrand, where she was a Fulbright visiting professor in 1994. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Professor Gail Gerhart reviewed books on Africa for the Council’s magazine, Foreign Affairs, from 1990 to 2004. Gerhart is currently an adjunct professor at Columbia’s School of Public and International Affairs where in 2004-2005 she was the acting director of the Institute of African Studies.
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