Cody S Perkins
Fields & Specialties
History of Cape Town, Coloured identity, gender and sexualityEDUCATION
Ph.D., History, University of Virginia, expected May 2015
-Dissertation: “Men, Moffies, and Meanings of Coloured Masculinities in the Politics of the Formative South African Nation-State, 1899-1948”
-Comprehensive Examination Fields: African History (major); History of Modern South Africa (special); History of the Black Atlantic (minor); ABD as of February 6, 2012
M.A., History, University of Virginia, May 2011
-Thesis: “Colouring Books: Constructing Historical Coloured Experiences in the Literature of District Six” (advisor: John Edwin Mason)
B.A., Global and Area Studies (Africa), Michigan State University, May 2009
LANGUAGE TRAINING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Summer Cooperative African Language Institute (SCALI) Summer 2010
Achieved reading knowledge of Afrikaans;
Fulbright-Hays Groups Projects Abroad, Arusha, Tanzania Summer 2008
Intensive reading and oral training in Kiswahili; attained reading knowledge and conversational abilities in Kiswahili; passed mastery-level examination at University of Virginia, December 2009
MATRIX: Center for Humane Arts, Letters, & Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University Summer 2007
Internship in Cape Town, South Africa; digitized apartheid-era video footage; collected and catalogued metadata and transcriptions for production of research website: http://www.cvet.org.za
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Virginia
“Africa Since 1800,” Professor John Edwin Mason, Spring 2012, Spring 2011
“History of the Modern Middle East,” Professor Elizabeth Thompson, Spring 2012
“Early African History through the Era of the Slave Trade,” Professor Joseph C. Miller, Fall 2011
“When Samurai Ruled,” Professor Federico Marcon, Fall 2010
Lectures
“The Making of History in South Africa,” March 29, 2012
“African Agency in the Second World War, “March 17, 2011
SERVICE
Mentor for first-time Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spring 2012
Corcoran Department of History ABD Liaison Committee, Spring 2012
Corcoran Department of History Website Improvement Committee, Spring 2012
