JoAnn McGregor

JoAnn is Professor of Human Geography. She came to Sussex in 2013 from University College London, where she was Reader, and before that she held Lectureships at the University of Reading (Dept of Geography) and the University of Oxford (Refugee Studies Programme). She was educated at University of Oxford, where she secured a first class honours in geography, and at Loughborough, where shed gained her PhD. Her research interests cross the boundaries between political, historical-cultural and development geography, and she has a particular focus on Southern Africa. Current research projects are on: African historic collections in UK museums and debates over 'decolonizing'; transnational approaches to Southern Africa's liberation wars; and mobility, citizenship and urban politics.

Her publications include the books Violence and Memory: One Hundred Years in the Dark Forests of Matabeleland (co-authored with Jocelyn Alexander and Terence Ranger, Heinemann 2000), Crossing the Zambezi: The Politics of Landscape on a Central African Frontier (James Currey 2009); Zimbabwe's New Diaspora: Displacement and the Cultural Politics of Survival (co-edited with Ranka Primorac, Berghahn 2010); Politics, Patronage and the State in Zimbabwe (co-edited with Jocelyn Alexander and Blessing Miles-Tendi, Weaver Press 2013); The Transnational Histories of Southern Africa's Liberation Movements (co-edited with Jocelyn Alexander and Blessing Miles-Tendi, Routledge 2020). Creating African Fashion Histories: Politics, Museums and Sartorial Practices (co-edited with Nicola Stylianou and Heather Akou, 2022).