Dr. Billy Keniston

Dr. Billy Keniston comes to St. Lawrence as a Visiting Assistant Professor in History and African Studies. Both his PhD (University of Illinois) and MA (University of the Western Cape) were focused on the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. His book, Choosing to Be Free: A Life Story of Rick Turner is a biography of a white left-wing professor, assassinated in 1978. While much of his work is biographical, and draws extensively on interviews, his research also analyzes the mechanisms of state surveillance and repression.