Tshepo Masango Chéry
Associate Professor

Email: tmchery@uh.edu 
Office: 561 Agnes Arnold Hall

Dr. Tshepo Masango Chéry is a South African scholar specializing in African history, with a focus on racial formation, radical politics, and religious expression. Her book project Kingdom Come: Archbishop Alexander’s Transnational Practices of Faith and Freedom in Segregationist South Africa provides a new genealogy of religious activism that connects Ethiopianism in South Africa, Black Nationalism in the U.S., to African radicalism in Kenya to redefine African freedom in the 20 ^th century. Her interdisciplinary approach to historical research, writing, and teaching knits together forgotten dimensions of the past to make sense of the African present. She has written on a variety of issues that historicize African women leaders in independence, religious artistic production, queer identities and violence.

Education

• Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, African History with a certificate in Africana Studies
• MA, University of Pennsylvania, African History
• A.B., Princeton University, International Affairs and Public Policy with a certificate in African Studies, African American Studies, and Women & Gender Studies

Research Interests

• Southern African History
• African Political History
• African Religious History

Teaching

• Africa From 1945 to the Present
• Jesus, Africa, & History
• Mandela: The Man & His Politics
• Introduction to the Study of Africa
• Histories of African Liberation