Elizabeth Schmidt

Elizabeth Schmidt is professor emeritus of history at Loyola University Maryland. She received her bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College and her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has written extensively about US involvement in apartheid South Africa, women under colonialism in Zimbabwe, the nationalist movement in Guinea, and foreign intervention in Africa from the Cold War to the war on terror. Her books on Guinea received the African Politics Conference Group’s Best Book Award and Alpha Sigma Nu’s Book Award for History. Her book on Zimbabwe was a finalist for the African Studies Association’s Herskovits Award and was selected by Choice as an “Outstanding Academic Book.” Her first book, which examined the role of US corporations in South Africa, was banned by the apartheid regime.