For nearly four decades Dr. Gail M. Gerhart has studied, taught, and written about political issues in Africa.
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For nearly four decades Dr. Gail M. Gerhart has studied, taught, and written about political issues in Africa. Her contributions to an understanding of Africa have been widely varied. Gail M. Gerhart is the author of Black Power in South Africa (1978) and a co-author of a six volume book series called From Protest to Challenge a Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882-1990. Gail Gerhart was also a member of an advisory board for the Aluka project of the Mellon Foundation, which between 2004 and 2009 created pioneering online digital libraries on three African subjects: botany, cultural heritage sites, and southern African political history.
On two occasions in the 1980s, Gail Gerhart testified before the subcommittee on Africa of the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs. Additionally, between 1990 and 2004 Gerhart reviewed 25 books on Africa annually for Foreign Affairs, the magazine of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and has been a consultant at various times to Columbia University, the Ford Foundation, the publishers of Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, and the National Rainbow Coalition of the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
In 1966, Gail Gerhart earned her Bachelor’s degree in Government from Harvard University magna cum laude. In 1974 Gail Gerhart completed a PhD at Columbia University in New York. Her husband’s work took the family to Africa for over twenty-five years, where she taught political science at the Universities of Nairobi and Botswana, the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg (where she was a visiting Fulbright professor in 1994), and the American University in Cairo, Egypt. After relocating to the United States in 2002, Gail Gerhart returned to Columbia University as an adjunct professor at the School of International and Public Affairs. In 2004-2005 she was the acting director of Columbia’s Institute of African Studies.
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Columbia University
Doctorate - Public Law and Government from 1966 - 1974
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Harvard University
Bachelors - Government from 1961 - 1966
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Columbia University
Adjunct Professor from 2004 - PRESENT
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The American University in Cairo
Professor of Political Science from 1998 - 2001
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University of the Witwatersrand
Fulbright Visiting Professor from 1994 - 1994
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Columbia University
Associate Professor in the Political Science Depar from 1985 - 1990
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The American University in Cairo
Associate Professor of Political Science from 1980 - 1985
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