With an MA in African Area Studies and an MA and PhD in Political Science from University of California, Los Angeles, Allison is professor emerita at the University of York. She is currently a distinguished visiting professor at the University of Johannesburg, and she has been an honorary professor at the University of Cape Town. She has published six scholarly books and numerous articles on anti-apartheid and anti-colonial movements in South Africa and Algeria and socialism and communism in Africa. Her work examines the uneasy relationships of intellectuals and political movements and the tension between struggles for individual rights and collective social justice.
For more information about Allison’s academic work see her academia.edu web site.
Allison’s latest book explores socialist intellectual work in early 1960s apartheid South Africa and the state’s efforts to squash this work as thought crime.
Her earlier books include:
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We are no Longer in France: Communists in Colonial Algeria, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014.
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Between Empire and Revolution: A Life of Sidney Bunting, 1873-1936, London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007. Paperback edition, Pretoria: Unisa, 2009.[/ezcol_1third]
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Discordant Comrades: Identities and Loyalties on the South African Left, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. Paperback edition, Pretoria: Unisa, 2002.
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South Africa’s Radical Tradition: A Documentary History, vol. 1, 1907-1950, Cape Town: Buchu, Mayibuye and University of Cape Town, 1996.[/ezcol_1half]
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South Africa’s Radical Tradition: A Documentary History, vol. 2, 1943-1964, Cape Town: Buchu, Mayibuye and University of Cape Town, 1997. [/ezcol_1half_end]