Jeff Schauer (History) participated in the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies. His paper, "'Sitting Like Robots Doing Extremely Nothing': Expatriates, Work, Loyalty, and Neocolonial Power in 1960s Africa" juxtaposed debates about "model whites" in Kenya, dual loyalties, and meaningless labor in Zambia, and the tightening boundaries of citizenship across the East African community to explore how British neocolonialism and the anxieties it induced did not just stymie existing African visions for decolonization, but proved generative of new forms of governance.
