Incoming Postdoctoral Fellow with International Security Studies and the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University. 

I recently published an article with Enterprise & Society: “‘An Exercise in the Art of the Possible’: Waging a Battle Against Apartheid in the South African Workplace,” Enterprise & Society, July 2023, doi:10.1017/eso.2023.20.

You can also find me on Twitter: @MattieCWebb

 

Mattie Webb is a Kissinger Visiting Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow with International Security Studies at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs. She is also an affiliate with Rhodes University’s Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit in South Africa. A historian of the United States and southern Africa, Mattie’s research explores the history of the anti-apartheid movement by considering the impact of U.S. business reform on South African workers, particularly those employed by U.S. multinationals.

At Yale, Mattie is working on her book manuscript, “Diplomacy at Work: The South African Worker, U.S. Multinationals, and Transnational Racial Solidarity (1972-1987),” which places South African workers and trade unionists at the center of global narratives of U.S. foreign policy, corporate governance, and labor and race relations. Her work has appeared in Enterprise & Society, Ethnic Studies Review, Cold War History, and The Washington Post, among other outlets. She received her Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2023. Mattie’s research is supported by the U.S. Fulbright Program, the National Security Education Program, the Ford Presidential Library, the Emory University Stuart A. Rose Library, and the Walter H. Capps Center, among others. Mattie holds a master’s degree in Global Studies from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She received her BA in History with highest honors (Summa Cum Laude) from North Carolina State University in 2014.

 

Diplomacy at Work: The South African Worker, U.S. Multinationals, and Transnational Racial Solidarity (1972-1987)Salim Yaqub, Stephan Miescher, Mhoze Chikowero, Paul Spickard, Lucien van der Walt (Rhodes), Nicole Ulrich (Fort Hare)