Myra Ann Houser

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Associate Professor and Chair

Ouachita Baptist University

Also affiliated: Howard University (2013–2015)

2 h-index 30 pubs 15 cited

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Myra Ann Houser is an Associate Professor and Chair at Ouachita Baptist University. Her scholarship focuses on the history of Southern Africa, particularly its liberation movements and legal histories. Houser has published extensively on topics including the memory of Cuban slavery in Angola, the intersection of African American leadership and figures like Jan Smuts, and the historiographies of South Africa and Namibia. Her work also examines the role of legal representation in colonial contexts, such as the Namibian Legal Resources Centre and the trial of Cassinga detainees. Houser has also investigated the evolution of anti-colonial activism, exemplified by the work of Goler T. Butcher against Portuguese colonialism in Africa. Her research explores the dynamics between political parties and states within Southern African liberation movements and the broader concept of African unity.

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h-index: 2
Publications: 30
Citations: 15

Positions

Associate Professor and Chair publications 2013–2025

Ouachita Baptist University History ORCID
Affiliate Faculty

LCC International University Center for Faith and Human Flourishing ORCID

Selected Publications

The Evolution of an Anti-Colonialist: Goler T. Butcher and Legal-Professional Activism against Portuguese Colonialism in Africa (2025)

South African Historical Journal DOI OpenAlex
Liz Carmichael. Peacemaking and Peacebuilding in South Africa: The National Peace Accord, 1991–1994. Cape Town: James Currey, 2023. 492 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $36.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781847013682. (2025)

African Studies Review DOI OpenAlex
Premesh Lalu. Undoing Apartheid. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2023. 202 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-509-55283-2. (2024)

African Studies Review DOI OpenAlex
Haunted trials: Law and memory in post-Apartheid South Africa (2023)

Violence An International Journal DOI OpenAlex
Introduction to the special issue: Searching for humanity after crimes against humanity (2023)

Violence An International Journal DOI OpenAlex
‘Open Fascism Has Appeared on this Continent’: South Africa’s Independent Press and Anti-Fascism, 1937–1947 (2022)

South African Historical Journal DOI OpenAlex
Bureaucrats of Liberation (2020)

Amsterdam University Press eBooks DOI OpenAlex
Between Continent and Country: Botswana, National Liberation, and Pan-Africanist Challenges, 1960s–1980s (2020)

African histories and modernities DOI OpenAlex
“We Are Worried Mothers:” A Panel of “Ordinary South Africans” on US Capitol Hill (2019)

Critical Arts DOI OpenAlex
Victims’ Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights by Diana Tietjens Meyers (2018)

Human Rights Review DOI OpenAlex
COUSINS AND COLONIZERS - Cubans in Angola: South-South Cooperation and Transfer of Knowledge, 1976–1991. By Christine Hatzky . Translated by Mair Edmunds-Harrington.Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. Pp. xvi + 386. $39.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-299-30104-0). (2017)

The Journal of African History DOI OpenAlex
“The most patient of animals, next to the ass:” Jan Smuts, Howard University, and African American Leadership, 1930 (2016)

Safundi 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
Liberation Movements in Power: Party and State in Southern Africa (2016)

South African Historical Journal 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
The Most Patient of All Animals, Next to the Ass: Jan Smuts, Howard University, and African American Leadership in 1930 (2015)

SSRN Electronic Journal OpenAlex
South Africa’s History of Struggle and Liberation (2015)

Human Rights Review DOI OpenAlex