Department of History

Gary Kynoch

Professor, Department Chair

Gary Kynoch
Department of History

Email: gary.kynoch@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-3667
Fax: 902-494-3349
Mailing Address: 
Room 1164, Marion McCain Building, 6135 University Ave
PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • South African history
  • Conflict in 20th century Africa
  • Urban African history
  • Crime

Education

  • BA (Queen’s)
  • BEd (Queen’s)
  • MA (Dalhousie)
  • PhD (Dalhousie)

Books

  • Township Violence and the End of Apartheid:  War on the Reef  (James Currey; Wits University Press 2018)
  • We are Fighting the World: The Marashea Gangs in South Africa, 1947-1999 (Ohio University Press; University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2005).

Recent Articles & Essays

  • ‘We get Sucked into Everybody’s Mess’: Protests and Public Order Policing in South Africa” Journal of Southern African Studies 49, 5/6 (2023).
  •  “Raids, Resistance, and Retribution: South Africa’s Cato Manor Killings, 1960-61” Journal of African History 64, 3 (2023).

Teaching Winter 2025:

  • HIST 4401, State Violence, Communal Conflict and Criminality in Modern South Africa

Winter 2025 Office Hours:

  • Monday 12:30 - 2:00
  • or by appointment