Dr WP Visser

MA History (US)
HOD (US)
D Phil (US)

Office: Room 303, Wilcocks Building
Tel: +27 21 808 2182
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Current teaching modules:

Undergraduate:
History 214 (Revolution as Historical Phenomenon).
History 144 (Debates on the settlement of population groups in South Africa; Clashes in the interior – the historical significance van 19th century migrations; the mineral revolution and the impact on modern South Africa).
History 244 (South Africa in the 18th and 19th century)

Postgraduate:
South African Historiography; South African Labour history; Minority identities

Research Specialisation:

South African Labour and trade union history

Current research project:

The History of the South African Mineworkers’ Union, 1902-2002

Community service:

Internal

Co-organiser: Symposium on Restitution and Reconciliation in Europe and South Africa, 9-10

External

Member of the History Olympiad Committee of the South African Academy for Science and Arts
Member of the History Commission of the South African Academy for Science and Arts
External Moderator for History of the University of the Freestate
Article referee for Journal of Contemporary History