History Department
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Boston University
Fields: Africa, southern Africa, environment, agriculture, development, health
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Professional website
LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-conz-93799728/
Email: cconz@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 388 Office Phone: TBA
Office Hours: O'Kane 388: Wed. 12:30-1:30 p.m.; Via Zoom: Tues. 10:00-11:00 a.m., Thurs. 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Courses taught
- Global Environmental History
- Modern Africa since 1800
- Gender and Power in African History
- Early Africa to 1800
- Histories of Disease and Healing
- Sports, Society, and History
Selected Publications
The Poverty of Progress: A History of Environment, Knowledge, and Injustice in Lesotho. (In progress and under contract with James Currey Publishers, Suffolk, UK).
“Stick to thy Hillock?: James Machobane and the Problem of Agroecology in Lesotho,” in Jane Carruthers, Nancy Jacobs, and Graeme Winn, eds., Environment, Power, and Justice in Southern Africa (Ohio University Press, forthcoming).
“Sheep, Scab Mites, and Society: The Process and Politics of Veterinary Knowledge in Lesotho, Southern Africa, c. 1900-1933,” Environment and History 26.3 (2020): 383—412. *Winner of the 2021 American Society for Environmental History’s Alice Hamilton Prize.
“(Un)Cultivating the Disease of Maize: Pellagra, Policy, and Nutrition Practice in Lesotho, 1933-1963,”Journal of Southern African Studies 46.3 (2020): 509—526.
“Origins and Pathways of Agricultural Demonstration in Lesotho, Southern Africa, 1924-1960s,” Agricultural History 93.2 (2019): 233—263.