Peter Alegi, associate professor of history

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Peter Alegi, associate professor of history, has been appointed a Fulbright Scholar at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, in South Africa for the calendar year 2010. Alegi’s project is to explore “Sport and Leisure: Colonial and Post-colonial Transformations.”

As part of the project, Alegi will teach two newly developed history courses illustrating how African men and women cannot be written out of history. Studies of sport and leisure cast new light on the emotional dimensions of history and broaden understanding of how oppressed people jostled for power and pursued pleasure under the punitive and unforgiving conditions of colonialism, segregation and apartheid.

Alegi’s courses are aimed at undergraduates and graduate students seeking to inform themselves of historical perspectives prior to the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa. He will help develop a more international curriculum at the South African university and develop new ways for local students to interact with online media, as well as integrate digital resources into their own projects.

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