Amanda Joyce Hall

External Faculty Fellow
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2025-2026
Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

Amanda Joyce Hall is an assistant professor of history and the 2024–25 Black Star Assistant Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a scholar of global anti-apartheid, Black internationalism, and twentieth-century Black world social movements. She earned her doctorate in history and African American Studies from Yale University where she won Fulbright, Ford Foundation, and Newcombe Foundation fellowships to assist her research. Her writings have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of African American History, and Third World Thematics. Hall has also published her research in public outlets including The Conversation, Jacobin, and The Emancipator.

SHC Project

Shantytown Solidarities: Black Consciousness and Global Anti-Apartheid

Shantytown Solidarities: Black Consciousness and Global Anti-Apartheid tells the story of South Africa’s anti-Apartheid struggle as a global Black-led movement. A paradigmatic international fight against worldwide formations of racial injustice, the movement shook the foundations of South Africa’s Apartheid regime. In contrast to existing accounts that largely depict anti-Apartheid as a phenomenon of white solidarity, this book offers the framework of “shantytown solidarities” to describe how South African exiles, politicians, students, workers, artists, and organizers grew a trans-continental movement, built coalitions in tension, and amassed political power across racial, ethnic, and class divisions.

 

Publications and Projects

 Peer-reviewed articles

Public writings and articles


 

Amanda Hall