Journal Articles and Book Chapters: “Nokukhanya Luthuli as First Lady of the African National Congress.” International Journal of African Historical Studies 57, no. 3 (2024): 287-306. “Nokukhanya Luthuli: South African Women’s Leader.” In Thomas Spear (ed). Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Oxford University Press (2024). “Mdluli Backstories and Biographies: Shaka Zulu and the Persistence of Amalala Identities.” Historia 69, no. 1 (2024): 77-100. “Land Reform for a Landless Chief in South Africa: History and Land Restitution in KwaZulu-Natal.” African Studies Review 64, no. 4 (2021): 884-908. “Teaching South African History in the Digital Age: Collaboration, Pedagogy, and Popularizing History,” with Omar Badsha, History in Africa, 47 (2020): 297-325. “Gender, Shame, and the ‘Efficacy of Congress Methods of Struggle’ in 1959 Natal Women’s Revolts,” South African Historical Journal 71, no. 2 (2019): 1-20. “Bantu Authorities and Betterment: The Ambiguous Responses of Natal’s Chiefs and Regents, 1955-1970,” Journal of Southern African Studies 41(2), 2015. “’Women Were Not Supposed to Fight’: The Gendered Uses of Martial and Moral Zuluness during uDlame (1990-1994)”in Jan Bender Shetler (ed.), Gendering Ethnicity in African Women’s Lives. (University of Wisconsin Press, 2015). “‘It is because of our Islam that we are there’: The Call of Islam in the United Democratic Front,” African Historical Review 41, no. 1 (Jul 2009): 118-139.
Other Academic Writing: “King Zwelithini and the Historians,” with Jabulani Sithole and Liz Timbs, in South African Historical Journal 73, no. 2 (2021). “In Peace and Rebellion: Inkosi Mhlabunzima Maphumulo” in Born out of Sorrow: Essays on Pietermaritzburg and the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands under Apartheid (1948-1994), Natal Society Foundation (2021): 211-228. “Women in South African History.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Oxford University Press. March 2020. “Notes from the Field,” The Historian, 81: 2 (2019): 206-209.
Jill E. Kelly 