Mucha Musemwa

My name is Muchaparara Musemwa, and I am a Zimbabwean. In 1998 I was awarded the MacArthur Interdisciplinary Fellowship and I joined the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities in Fall of the same year as a MacArthur Scholar in the MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program on Global Change, Sustainability and Justice, and am a PhD candidate in African History. I am currently a Compton Peace Fellow, after being awarded the Compton Peace Dissertation Fellowship this year to enable me to carry out research on my topic: Poverty and Urban Environmental Degradation: The Struggle for Sustainable Livelihoods in Alexandra Township in Johannesburg, South Africa, 1963-2001. I graduated with a BA degree in History with Honors at the University of Zimbabwe in 1988. I obtained my Master of Arts degree in History in 1993 at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. From 1995 I became tenured as a Lecturer in History at the University of South Africa in Pretoria. I have been on study leave since September 1998.