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Post-doctoral Fellow at The Ohio State University's Mershon Center for International Security Studies with extensive research and professional experience in Africa. Political historian with a specialization in African decolonization and Cold War era pan-African diplomacy. Received a PhD in African Studies from the University of Edinburgh (2020). Previously a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pretoria's Department of Historical and Heritage Studies. Maintains an appointment as a Research Associate in that department. Has consulted for the African Development Bank and Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Significant experience as an international development administrator in Washington DC and in the field.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Brooks Marmon

Citation names

  • Marmon, Brooks

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
5B19-59E6-CA9B
ORCID iD
0000-0002-7504-4556

Email addresses

  • eb.marmon@up.ac.za (Professional)
  • marmon.15@osu.edu (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • (+27) 640764780 (Personal)
  • (1) 5402566561 (Personal)

Addresses

  • 306 Lake View Lane, 22949, Lovingston, Virginia, United States (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - History and Archaeology - History

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English (Mother tongue)
French Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2)
Afro-Asiatic (Other) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2016/09/01 - 2020/10/01
Concluded
 Centre of African Studies (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in African Studies
The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
"Pan-Africanism Versus Partnership: African Decolonisation and the Realignment of Southern Rhodesian Politics, ca. 1950 – 1963" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Russell Group
2007 - 2008
Concluded
 History (Master)
Major in History
Clark University Department of History, United States
"“We Hail this Institution as the Precursor of Incalculable Blessings to this Benighted Land”: The Sanctity of Liberia College in Americo-Liberian Nation-building, 1880-1912" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2003/08 - 2007/05
Concluded
 Department of History (Bachelor)
Major in History
Clark University Department of History, United States
"Decolonising America's Mind: E. Franklin Frazier and Africa's Allure" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2014 - 2016 Assistente Técnico (Assistente Técnico) Accountability Lab, Liberia
2011 - 2014 Assistente Técnico (Assistente Técnico) American Council on Education, United States
2011 - 2011 Assistente Técnico (Assistente Técnico) American Political Science Association, United States
2008 - 2010 Assistente Técnico (Assistente Técnico) Peace Corps, Niger

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/08/15 - Current Post-doctoral Fellow The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences, United States
The Ohio State University Mershon Center for International Security Studies, United States
2022 - Current Research Associate University of Pretoria, South Africa
University of Pretoria, South Africa
2020/06/01 - 2022/08/14 Post-doctoral Fellow University of Pretoria, South Africa
University of Pretoria, South Africa
2017/02 - 2018/02 Research Fellow National University of Science and Technology - Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022 - 2024 Zimbabwe Political Biographies
NA
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
WK Kellogg Foundation
Ongoing

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/06/01 - 2022/12/30 South African - Zimbabwean Relations in Retrospect
na
Post-doc
University of Pretoria, South Africa
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Marmon, Brooks. Pan-Africanism Versus Partnership. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. 2023.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-25559-5
Book chapter
  1. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "The 1961 Constitution, Race, and Political Realignments in Colonial Zimbabwe". edited by Dlamini, Hlengiwe; Awasom, Nicodemus. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2024.
    Accepted
  2. Marmon, Brooks. "Denouncing Abubakar Tafawa Balewa: Zimbabwean Nationalists Bring Nigeria to Heel". In Festschrift in Honor of Professor Alois Mlambo. 2024.
    Submitted
Book review
  1. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "Migration and the politics of the everyday: the Malawian experience in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe". Review of Malawian Migration to Zimbabwe, 1900–1965: Tracing Machona 48, 6 (2023): 1135-1137. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2022.2175514.
    Published
  2. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "Struggles for Self-Determination: The Denial of Reactionary Statehood in Africa (review)". Review of Struggles for Self-Determination: The Denial of Reactionary Statehood in Africa 28, 4 (2022): 1511-1512. https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12885.
    Published
  3. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "Race and Diplomacy in Zimbabwe (review)". Review of Race and Diplomacy in Zimbabwe: The Cold War and Decolonization, 1960–1984 56, 2 (2022): 464-465. https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2022.2041380.
    Published
  4. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "A Brutal state of affairs: the rise and fall of Rhodesia". Review of A Brutal state of affairs: the rise and fall of Rhodesia 110, 2 (2021): 303-304. https://doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2021.1902627.
    Published • 10.1080/00358533.2021.1902627
  5. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "Decolonisation and Regional Geopolitics: South Africa and the 'Congo Crisis,' 1960-1965 (review)". Review of Decolonisation and Regional Geopolitics: South Africa and the ‘Congo Crisis,’ 1960–1965 (2020): https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/discussions/6259999/h-diplo-review-essay-261.
    Published
  6. Marmon, Brooks. "Robert Mugabe (review)". 67, 1 (2020): 114-116. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/776316.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Marmon, Brooks. "The Rise and Demise of a Pro-nationalist Daily Newspaper in Colonial Zimbabwe". Paper presented in 28th Biennial Conference of the Southern African Historical Society, East London, 2022.
    Published
  2. Marmon, Brooks. "Southern Rhodesia's 1961 Constitution: Repercussions of a Late Colonial Initiative Gone Awry". Paper presented in Rethinking ‘Late Colonialisms’ in Africa, virtual, 2022.
    Submitted
  3. Marmon, Brooks. "Prelude to Unilateralism: Abortive Independence Bids in Pre-Federation Southern Rhodesia, 1948 & 1950". Paper presented in Making and Breaking Global Order in the Twentieth Century, Leiden, 2022.
    Published
  4. Marmon, Brooks. "The Rise and Demise of a Pro-ZAPU Daily Newspaper in Colonial Zimbabwe". Paper presented in 65th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Philadelphia, 2022.
    Published
  5. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "George Loft's Balancing Act: An American Mediates the Southern Rhodesian Crisis, 1957-60". Paper presented in Annual Conference of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2021.
    Published
  6. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "The Warp and Woof of the University of Liberia: J. Max Bond's Quest for Light in Darkness". Paper presented in 52nd Annual Conference of the Liberian Studies Association, 2021.
    Published
  7. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "An Entangled Cold War Warrior: The Liberian Travails of J. Max Bond Sr., 1950 - 54". Paper presented in 6th Annual Conference of the African American Intellectual History Society, 2021.
    Published
  8. Marmon, Brooks. "Settler Unification and Nationalist Division: Political Realignments from Southern Rhodesia's 1961 Constitutional Referendum". Paper presented in International Conference on The Making, Unmaking and Remaking of Africa’s Independence and Post-Independence Constitutions, 2021.
    Submitted
  9. Marmon, Brooks. "'Forward Ever, Backward Never': The 1958 All African People's Congress and the Decolonisation of Zimbabwe". Paper presented in Decolonisation Workshop, London, 2020.
  10. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "The Preservation of Privilege: Rhodesian Efforts to Reconfigure the Borders of the Central African Federation". Paper presented in Cambridge World History Workshop, Cambridge, 2019.
  11. Marmon, Brooks. "A Quixotic Quest: The Central African Federation's Diplomacy in Decolonising Africa, 1960-63". Paper presented in International History and Diplomacy in the 20th Century Symposium, Liverpool, 2019.
  12. Marmon, Brooks. "A Solidarity Network Reconsidered: The Malawi Congress Party and the Rupture of African Nationalist Unity in Southern Rhodesia, 1961-64". Paper presented in 8th European Conference on African Studies, Edinburgh, 2019.
  13. Marmon, Brooks. "Robert Mugabe's First Degree in Violence: The Repression of the Zimbabwe National Party". Paper presented in 62nd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Boston, 2019.
  14. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "Citizen or Alien? Arguments Over Hastings Kamuzu Banda's National Origins in Colonial Zimbabwe". Paper presented in Freedom Road Workshop II, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, 2019.
  15. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "Winter is Coming: Riots and Refugees in Colonial Zimbabwe, July 1960". Paper presented in 7th European Conference on African Studies, Basel, 2017.
    Published
  16. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "The OAU, Zimbabwe, and African Liberation: Reconsidering the Legacy of Liberian President William Tolbert". Paper presented in 59th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Washington DC, 2016.
    Published
Encyclopedia entry
  1. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "Early Factionalism in Zimbabwe's Liberation Struggle". In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, 2023.
    Under revision
Journal article
  1. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "Transnational Revolutionary: Noel Mukono's Navigation of Zimbabwe's Fractious Liberation Struggle, 1957-77". International History Review (2023): https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2023.2206824.
    Open access • Published
  2. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1953-1963: A Retrospective at its Unattained Platinum Jubilee". South African Historical Journal (2023):
    In press
  3. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "Settler Worldmaking: Reconfiguring the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1953-62". Itinerario (2022): 1-19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115322000201.
    Open access • Published • 10.1017/s0165115322000201
  4. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "Independence and Pan-African Diplomatic Contestation: Anti-colonial Nationalism and the Eclipse of White Legitimacy in 'British Central Africa', 1957-64". The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 51 2 (2022): 384-408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2022.2137077.
    10.1080/03086534.2022.2137077
  5. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "Rise and Demise of the Zimbabwe Times". Media History (2022): 1-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2022.2099367.
    Published • 10.1080/13688804.2022.2099367
  6. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "Prelude to Unilateralism: Foreclosed Independence Bids in Pre-Federation Southern Rhodesia, 1948 and 1950". South African Historical Journal 74 2 (2022): 254-271. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2022.2149847.
    Open access • Published • 10.1080/02582473.2022.2149847
  7. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "'Bogey Bogey Stuff': Gold Coastism, federation, and white backlash in Southern Rhodesia, 1951-56". The Round Table 111 2 (2022): 214-226. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2022.2058739.
    Published • 10.1080/00358533.2022.2058739
  8. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "Research Notes: Negotiating South African ministerial archives (Defence & Foreign Affairs)". Cold War History 22 3 (2022): 359-362. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2022.2032203.
    Published • 10.1080/14682745.2022.2032203
  9. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "An imperial historian of empire: insights from the Philip Warhurst papers, Killie Campbell Africana Library". Journal for Contemporary History 47 2 (2022): 91-105. http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/sjch.v47i2.6259.
    Open access • Published • 10.38140/sjch.v47i2.6259
  10. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "Neutrality of a special type: George Loft's abortive racial reconciliation in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1957-1960". Safundi 22 4 (2021): 417-434. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2022.2055869.
    Published • 10.1080/17533171.2022.2055869
  11. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "Operation Refugee: the Congo Crisis and the end of humanitarian imperialism in Southern Rhodesia, 1960". Cold War History 22 2 (2021): 131-152. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2021.1933950.
    Published • 10.1080/14682745.2021.1933950
  12. Marmon, Brooks. "Kith and Kin or Rhodesia First? Kenyan Decolonisation and Inter-party Competition in Rhodesian Politics, c. 1950-62". Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 22 2 (2021): https://muse.jhu.edu/article/801552/pdf.
    Published
  13. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "The Warp and Woof of the University of Liberia: J. Max Bond's Quest for Light in Darkness". Liberian Studies Journal 44 1-2 (2021): 97-112.
    Published
  14. Marmon, Brooks. "Division to Save the Country Is Wisdom: The Short Life of the Zimbabwe National Party and its Lasting Impact on Zimbabwe's Liberation Struggle, 1961-1963". International Journal of African Historical Studies 53 3 (2020): 361-387. https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/79988?show=full.
    Published
  15. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "Fallout from the Fallacious Accusation of Hastings Kamuzu Banda's West African Origins, 1960". Society of Malawi Journal 73 1 (2020): 36-43. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26978871.
    Published
  16. Marmon, Brooks. "From Dreams of Dominion to Aspirations for a New Africa: Ahrn Palley's Political Re-invention in Southern Rhodesia, 1959-1961". Journal of Southern African Studies 45 3 (2019): 485-501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2019.1625011.
    Published • 10.1080/03057070.2019.1625011
  17. Marmon, Brooks. "The Liberation of Zimbabwe and the Pan-African Leadership of Liberian President William Tolbert Jr.: Passive, Pragmatic, or Principled?". Liberian Studies Journal 38 1 (2016): 116-141.
    Published
Magazine article
  1. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "Genesis of a Revolutionary: Robert Mugabe's Political Formation", The Republic, 2021, https://republic.com.ng/august-september-2021/robert-mugabe-revolutionary/.
  2. Marmon, Brooks. "Rejecting the New Normal", History Today, 2020, https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/rejecting-new-normal.
Newspaper article
  1. Marmon, Brooks. Corresponding author: Marmon, Brooks. "Conservatives' Educational Push Resurrects Authoritarian Tactics", The Washington Post, 2023, Made by History, https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2023/02/02/rhodesia-zimbabwe-desantis-education-conservatives/.
Online resource
  1. Marmon, Brooks. Zimbabwe's Ruling Party Vilifies the Opposition as American Puppets. But, the Party Itself had Strong Ties to the US.. 2023. https://theconversation.com/zimbabwes-ruling-party-vilifies-the-opposition-as-american-puppets-but-the-party-itself-had-strong-ties-to-the-us-202858.
  2. Marmon, Brooks. Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe Retreats from Western Outreach, Embraces Africa. 2019. https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/07/11/2019/post-mugabe-zimbabwe-retreats-western-outreach-embraces-africa.
  3. Marmon, Brooks. Can Zimbabwe Finally Ditch a History of Violence and Media Repression?. 2018. https://theconversation.com/can-zimbabwe-finally-ditch-a-history-of-violence-and-media-repression-99859.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Marmon, Brooks. "Pan-Africanism Versus Partnership: African Decolonisation in Southern Rhodesian Politics, ca. 1950 - 1963". PhD, The University of Edinburgh, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1842/37513.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023 The Rise and Fall of Noel Mukono: ZANU's First Defence Chief History Department Seminar
University of the Free State (South Africa)
2022/10/26 Discussant on African Regionalism Prospectus Paper Research in International Politics Seminar
Ohio State University, Department of Political Science (United States)
2022 The Rise and Demise of a Pro-Nationalist Daily Newspaper in Colonial Zimbabwe Wits History Workshop Seminar
University of the Witswatersrand, History Workshop (South Africa)
2021 Worldmaking Amidst Empire: Reconfiguring the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1953-62 History Department Seminar
University of the Free State (Bloemfontein, South Africa)
2021 Reconfiguring the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1953-62 Race, Gender and Identity Forum
University of Essex (United Kingdom)
2020 Hastings Kamuzu Banda, the Malawi Congress Party, and Zimbabwean Nationalist (Dis)Unity, 1958 - 63. Invited Talk
British Institute in Eastern Africa (Nairobi, Kenya)
2018 Point of No Return: The Path to December 1962 Monthly Meeting Keynote Speaker
History Society of Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe)
2017 Decolonizing Perceptions: Personal Lessons from West Africa Decolonising the Institution: History in Africa and Africa in History Roundtable
University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/02/10 - 2023/04/18 Organized and received funding for two events as part of the University's discovery theme on 'Archival Imaginations'. (2022/02/10 - 2022/04/18)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
 The Ohio State University Mershon Center for International Security Studies, United States
2019/10/28 - 2019/10/28 Organised and received funding for two speaker seminar on "Courting America: The Propaganda for White Regimes in Southern Africa" (2019/10/28 - 2019/10/28)
Seminar
 The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2017 - 2017 Applied for and received funding from University of Edinburgh's Global Justice Academy to host "Cinema and Social Justice in Zimbabwe" film screening and talk with Agnieszka Piotrowska (2017 - 2017)
Other (Co-organisor)
 The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2022 - 2022 Cold War History
2022 - 2022 Journal of Southern African Studies
2022 - 2022 Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History
2021 - 2021 African Historical Review
2021 - 2021 The Africa Governance Papers Good Governance Africa

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2022/01 - 2022/07 South-Africa based consultant for historian Niall Ferguson's biographical project on US diplomat Henry Kissinger. Stanford University Hoover Institution, United States
2020/10/03 - 2020/11/15 Media monitor and analyst for 2020 US election observation mission Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Austria
2016/05/01 - 2016/08/01 Fragility Analyst on transitional justice issues in the Mano River Union (Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Ivory Coast). African Development Bank, Côte d’Ivoire

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2016/07/19 Interview on security situation in Liberia in light of impending withdrawal of United Nations mission. World Politics Review

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2017/02 - 2018/02 Critical African Studies Taylor & Francis

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2019/09 - 2020/03 Mentor Brindley Fortuin

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2021 - 2021 Reviewer of book manuscript (a memoir by a Liberian government official and academic) for the African Studies Centre, Leiden
Distinctions

Award

2023 International Research and Scholarship Grant
The Ohio State University Office of International Affairs, United States
2023 OK-PROS Post-doctoral Onboarding Grant
WK Kellogg Foundation, United States

The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences, United States
2022 Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme Small Grant
The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences, United States
2021 International History Review Research Award
International History Review, United Kingdom
2020 Marie Antoinette Brown Sherman Emerging Scholar
Liberia Studies Association, United States
2018 Silas Palmer Research Fellowship
Stanford University Hoover Institution, United States
2018 Thematic research Grant
British Institute in Eastern Africa, Kenya
2017 Martin Lynn Scholarship
Royal Historical Society, United Kingdom
2017 Moody Research Grant
Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, United States
2017 New York Public Library Short-term research fellowship
New York Public Library, United States
2017 Tweedie Exploration Grant
The University of Edinburgh School of Social and Political Science, United Kingdom
2017 Go Abroad Fund
The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2016 PhD Studentship
The University of Edinburgh School of Social and Political Science, United Kingdom

Other distinction

2022 Participant, Migrations Initiative Summer Institute
Cornell University, United States
2021 Michael Dockerill Thesis Prize
British International History Group, United Kingdom
2018 Participant, AEGIS Summer School
Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, United Kingdom
2017 Participant, Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, United States