Participant Info
- First Name
- Elizabeth
- Last Name
- Thornberry
- Country
- United States
- State
- MD Maryland
- thornberry@jhu.edu
- Affiliation
- Johns Hopkins University
- Website URL
- http://history.jhu.edu/directory/elizabeth-thornberry/
- Keywords
- South Africa, gender, sexuality, law, citizenship, colonialism, empire, rape, sexual violence, domestic violence, custom, customary law, crime, punishment, traditional authority
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
I research the history of law, gender, and sexuality in South Africa, with comparative interests in these fields across the African continent and in the African diaspora. I’m particularly interested in the ways that major political debates over race and citizenship shaped the everyday and intimate lives of black South Africans. My first book, Colonizing Consent: Rape and Governance in South Africa’s Eastern Cape (Cambridge, 2018) is a history of rape in colonial South Africa. My current research examines African critiques of customary law in South Africa between 1883 and 1927. I’m also the co-editor, with Emily Burrill and Richard Roberts, of Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa (Ohio, 2010).
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- Africa
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Law, Sexuality, Sexual Violence
