Jill E Kelly

Biographic Data

ID143804
NAMEJill E Kelly
GIVEN NAMESJill E
FAMILY NAMEKelly
SIGNATUREKELLY J E
AFFILIATIONSSouthern Methodist University
ORCID0000-0002-8108-794X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Women and the Natal Native Code in T. J. Tallie’s Queering Colonial Natal

    Jill E KellyARTICLESafundi2024References: 8

  • King Zwelithini and the Historians

    Jill E Kelly, Jabulani Sithole et al.ARTICLESouth African Historical Journal2021

    In the wake of the death of King Goodwill Zwelithini on 12 March 2021, three historians of KwaZulu-Natal came together to discuss the historiography on the Zulu monarchs. Jabulani Sithole (JS), Liz Timbs (LT) and Jill Kelly (JK) speak about how scholars have written about the late king, the sources available for historians and the limitations of these sources

  • Land Reform for a Landless Chief in South Africa: History and Land Restitution in KwaZulu-Natal

    Open AccessJill E KellyARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2021References: 37

    Land claims and contests have been central to the construction of political authority across the African continent. South Africa's post-apartheid land reform program aims to address historical dispossessions, but the program has experienced numerous obstacles and limits-in terms of pace, communal land access, productivity, and rural class divides. Drawing on archival and newspaper sources, Kelly traces how the descendant of a colonially-appointed…

  • Teaching South African History in the Digital Age: Collaboration, Pedagogy, and Popularizing History

    Open AccessJill E Kelly, Omar BadshaARTICLEHistory in Africa2020References: 8

    The digitization of African materials has made it easier than ever for students to engage with primary source documentation and undertake original research. Digitizing sources and using digital sources to teach African history has great pedagogical value, but must be done ethically. This article suggests a model for collaborative and publicly-engaged scholarship, demonstrating the potential of transnational projects and shared knowledge productio…

  • Notes From the Field

    Open AccessJill E KellyARTICLEHistorian2019

    I write this inaugural “Notes from the Field” actually from the field. Supported by a Fulbright Scholar Grant, I am in KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa, for six months of research for my new book projec

  • Gender, Shame, and the ‘Efficacy of Congress Methods of Struggle’ in 1959 Natal Women’s Rural Revolts

    Jill E KellyARTICLESouth African Historical Journal2019Cited by: 1

    In early September 1959, over 1000 delegates – almost half of them from rural Natal – packed the Bantu Social Centre in Durban for a Natal People’s Conference. A banner stretched across the stage, thanking women for their courageous leading of protests against apartheid. For several months, women had been storming municipal beerhalls and destroying cattle dipping tanks, symbols of Bantu authorities in the rural areas. But African National Congres…

  • Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church

    Jill E KellyARTICLESouth African Historical Journal2016

    The Church of the Nazaretha is one of the largest African churches in South Africa. Since its founding in 1910 by the prophet Isaiah Shembe, the church has grown to an estimated six million followe

  • Experiencing Sophiatown: Conversations among Residents about the Past, Present and Future of a Community

    Jill E KellyARTICLESafundi2015

  • Bantu Authorities and Betterment in Natal: The Ambiguous Responses of Chiefs and Regents, 1955–1970

    Jill E KellyARTICLEJournal of Southern African Studies2015Cited by: 1

    While the Maphumulo and Nyavu chiefs, regents, and izinduna at Table Mountain (Pietermaritzburg, Natal) agreed to establish bantu authorities in early 1955, well before many other KwaZulu/Natal chiefdoms, they and their successors did little thereafter to suggest continued support for the apartheid system of African administration. Examining the actions of these apartheid-era traditional leaders requires avoiding depictions of chiefs as resisting…

  • It is because of our Islam that we are there’: The Call of Islam in the United Democratic Front Era

    Jill E KellyARTICLEAfrican Historical Review2009Cited by: 2References: 6

    This article examines the South African Islamic anti-apartheid organisation, the Call of Islam, in order to understand how progressive South African 'ulama navigated the contested territory of Islam through an interpretation of the Qur'an that demanded a Muslim alliance with the oppressed in the anti-apartheid struggle and a South African Islam. The emergence of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in 1983 in reaction to the apartheid government's T…