1997-2000
B. A. General in Economic History and History, University of Zimbabwe

2000-2001 
B. A. Special Honors in Economic History, University of Zimbabwe

Dissertation: - “An unfulfilled step”: An examination of the commission to      investigate the health and social conditions of Africans employed in urban areas, 1944.

2002-2004
M.A.    African Economic History, University of Zimbabwe

Dissertation: - The Natives Reserves Trust Fund and rural development in African areas, c.1924- 1948.

2005-2012       
Ph.D. History, University of Minnesota -Twin Cities
Major: African History
Minor: Development Studies
Subfield: African American History
Dissertation: - On the frontline of caring: A history of African nurses in colonial and postcolonial Zimbabwe:1940s-1996.

2002-2004       
Teaching Assistant, Economic History Department, University of Zimbabwe

2004-2005       
Lecturer, Economic History Department, University of Zimbabwe

2006-2008       
Teaching Assistant, History Department, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 2011-2012

2009 and 2010   
Instructor, History Department University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

2009 and 2012  
Lecturer: Faculty of Humanities and Social Studies Africa University, Zimbabwe

2013-2018     
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, International Studies Group, University of the Free State  

2018-Present   
Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of the Free State

African history; History of health and healing in Africa; History of Southern Africa, World history

NRF C2 Rated Scholar (New Rating, 2024)

History of hospital workers; History of hospitals; History of diseases, health, and healing in southern Africa

Book

i. African nurses and everyday work in twentieth-century Zimbabwe (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020).  ISBN  978 1 5261 3547 6 hardback.

Peer reviewed articles /book chapters/essays

Published

i. C. Masakure, ‘The multi-layered trajectories of violence in Zimbabwe’, Afriche e Orienti, 3, (2014), 222-231.

ii. C. Masakure, “One of the most serious problems confronting us at present”: Nurses and government hospitals in Southern Rhodesia, 1930s to 1950’, Historia, 60, 2, (2015),109-131.

iii. C. Masakure, “We will make sure they are rehabilitated”: Nation-building and Social Engineering in Operation Clean-up, Zimbabwe, 1983’, South African Historical Journal, 68, 1, (2016), 92-111.

iv. C. Masakure, ‘The nexus between Global Health and Public Health in Africa’, African Studies Quarterly, 16, 2, (2016), 71-76.

v. C. Masakure, ‘The Practice of Politics in Postcolonial Southern Africa: Cases from   Mozambique and Zimbabwe’, African Studies Quarterly, 17, 4, (2018), 107-114.

vi. C. Masakure, ‘The politicisation of health in Zimbabwe: The case of the cholera epidemic, August2008- March 2009’, New Contree, 80, (2018), 65-88.

vii. C. Masakure, ‘Government Hospitals as a Microcosm: Integration and Segregation in Salisbury Hospital, Rhodesia, 1890s-1950’, in J.  Stevens -Crawshaw, I.  Benyovsky Latin and K.  Vongsathorn (eds.), Tracing hospital boundaries: integration and segregation in Southeastern Europe and beyond, 1050- 1970 (Leiden: Brill, 2020),246-269.

viii. C. Masakure and N. Ndumeya, “The trees do not belong to Chief Maranke but to the Native Reserves Trust”: The Politics of Timber Resource Exploitation in African Reserves, Colonial Zimbabwe, 1924-1948', Historia, 66, 1(2021),61-87.

ix. C, Masakure and L.  Nkomo, ‘Purging the Lingering Shadow of Colonialism?  Zimbabwe's Third Chimurenga and the Struggle Over School Names’, Journal of Black Studies, 54, 3 (2023), 187-214.

x. C. Masakure and E. K. Makombe, “To serve administrative purposes and Native interests”? Road infrastructural investment in African Reserves in Colonial Zimbabwe: 1924-1948’, African Economic History, 51, 2 (2023), 24-41.

xi. C. Masakure, “‘Medical Practice Between Two Worlds’: The Work of Samuel Gurney in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1903 –1924’, Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, 49, no. 3 (2023), 15 pages, doi:10.25159/2412-4265/14107.

xii. E. Makombe and C. Masakure, ‘The colonial state, land-use policy and local responses in Seke Reserve, Rhodesia: 1935 to 1958’,  New Contree, 91, (2024), 15 pages. doi:https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v91i0.249

• ‘Being a white nurse in colonial Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) before World War II’, 22 March 2018, http://www.auswhn.org.au/blog/nursing-colonial-zimbabwe/

• ‘African Nurses and Everyday Work in Twentieth Century Zimbabwe’, The Conversation with Anotida Chikumbu (Book Series), 5 February 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNwpZu2fc

• ‘Dr. Kenneth Kaunda as a great friend of Southern Africa's liberation struggle’, Reflections on life and times of President Kenneth Kaunda, ANCYL UFS Branch, University of the Free State, 29 June2021

• Academic Head of Department, the Department of History, University of the Free State, Republic of South Africa, July 2020 – Present.

• Acting Academic Head of Department, International Studies Group, University of the Free State, Republic of South Africa, November 2023 – Present.

• Member of the Faculty of Humanities Admissions Advisory Committee, August 2023-Present.

• Editor -in – Chief, Historia- the Journal of the Historical Association of South Africa, January 2024– Present

• Co-Editor, Historia- the Journal of the Historical Association of South Africa, July 2021 – December 2023.

  
  

• Historical Association of South Africa (HASA)

• Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM)

• Royal Historical Society (RHS)