Joy Chadya

• HIST 1380 - World History
• HIST 2500 - History of Modern Africa
• HIST 3502 - History of African Women: The Colonial Times
• HIST 3504 - Apartheid South Africa and the Struggle for Democracy
• HIST 3506 - South Africa: From Jan van Riebeck to Nelson Mandela
• HIST 4000/7000 - Social History of Africa
• HIST 4000/7000 - History from Below

• PhD, University of Minnesota
• MA, University of Zimbabwe
• BA (Special Honors), University of Zimbabwe
• BA, University of Zimbabwe 

Research interests

• African diaspora
• Migration 
• Internal displacement
• Women and gender
• Deathscapes
• Liberation movements
• Labour history

Research summary

I am a twentieth century social historian whose interests are on Africa in general, but Southern Africa in particular. I am interested in transnational histories of liberation struggles, cross-border migration of labor in the Southern African region; women and urbanization; Zimbabwean the shifting practices in the Zimbabwean deathscape since the inception of colonial rule and African diaspora.

• Joy M. Chadya, Elusive Histories: Mozambican Migrant Laborers in Rhodesia, ca, 1900-1980, Ohio University Press, forthcoming
• Joy M. Chadya, (2023) "People on the Move: Elusive Histories and Transborder Migrations from Mozambique to Colonial Zimbabwe, 1945 to 1980 ca." Canadian Journal of African History forthcoming.
• Joy M. Chadya, (2014) “Where the Dead Queued for Fuel: Zimbabwe’s Fuel Crisis and the Funeral Industry, 1998-2008,” in Tina Chen and David Churchill, The Material of World History, New York, Routledge, 2015) 
• Joy M. Chadya, (2013) “Home Away from Home:” The Diaspora in Canada and the Zimbabwean Funeral,” in Adele Perry, Esyllt Jones and Leah Morton, (Eds) Place and Replace: Essays on Western Canada, Winnipeg, University of Manitoba Press, 139-168. 
• Joy M. Chadya, (2008) “Voting with their Feet: Women’s Flight to Harare During Zimbabwe’s Liberation War,” Journal of Canadian Historical Association, 18, 2, 24-52. 
• Joy M. Chadya and Koni Benson, (2005) “‘Ukubhinya,’ Gender and Sexual Violence in Bulawayo, Colonial Zimbabwe, 1946-1956,” Journal of Southern African Studies, 31, 3, 587-606. 
• Joy M. Chadya and Peter Mayavo, “The Curse of Old Age: Elderly Workers on Zimbabwe’s Large Scale Commercial farms, with Particular Reference to “Foreign” Farm Labourers up to 2000,” Zambezia, 29, 1, 2002, 12-26 (co-written with Peter Mayavo)