Roy C. Ketcham High School

 

Contact Information:

Michael G. Panzer, Ph.D.

Social Studies Dept. T.C. (Teacher-in-Charge)

Roy C. Ketcham High School

845-298-5100 x31108

 

Carmel High School graduate, Regents Diploma, Class of 1994

S.U.N.Y Cortland, Class of 1998 - History/Secondary Social Studies B.A.; Anthropology Minor; Cum Laude

Iona College, Class of 2002 - History M.A. ; Honors Distinction

University at Albany, Class of 2014 - History Ph.D; Concentration African History - Lusophone Africa; Mozambique

 

Dissertation Title: A Nation in Name, a 'State' in Exile: The FRELIMO Proto-State, Youth, Gender, and the Liberation of Mozambique, 1962-1975 (2013)

 

 

"Socialist Politics in Lusophone Africa," Oxford Research Encyclopedia for African History, DOI:10.1093/ACREFORE/9780190277734.013.177

 

"Pragmatism and Liberation: FRELIMO and the Legitimacy of an African Independence Movement," Portuguese Journal of Social Science, 14, no. 3 (Sept. 2015): 323-342.

 

"Building a Revolutionary Constituency: Mozambican Refugees and the Development of the FRELIMO Proto-State, 1964-1968," Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies, 39, no. 1, (March 2013): 5-23.

 

 "The Pedagogy of Revolution: Youth, Generational Conflict, and Education in the Development of Mozambican Nationalism and the State, 1962-1970." Journal of Southern African Studies, 25, no. 4, (Dec. 2009): 803-820.

 

1. Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves - Walter Hawthorne

2. Threads of Solidarity - Iris Berger

3. The Law and the Prophets - Daniel Magaziner

4. A Green Place, a Good Place - David Lee Schoenbrun

5. Way of Death - Joseph Miller

 

1. Made in Mexico - Susan M. Gauss

2. Revolutionary Mexico - John Mason Hart

3. The Tribute of Blood - Peter M. Beattie

4. Insurgent Cuba - Ada Ferrer

5. The Black Jacobins - C.L.R. James

 

1. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

2. Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson

3. Dune - Frank Herbert

4. Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk

5. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

 

1. The Children of Men

2. I Heart Huccabees

3. Downfall

4. The Truman Show

5. The Godfather, Pt. 2

 

Mozambique, Zambia, South Africa, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, England, France, Germany, Canada, Jamaica