Peter Alegi is an Associate Professor of History and a Core Faculty member of the African Studies Center at MSU. He is the author of Laduma! Soccer, Politics, and Society in South Africa (University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2004).
Peter focuses on the intersections between social history, gender history, labor history, and political history and conducts new research on the history of community-based beauty pageants in South Africa. Alegi teaches courses in South African and African history, comparative history of sport, and he supervises several doctoral students. He serves as Book Reviews Editor for Soccer and Society and is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of African Historical Studies.
