Saul Dubow
Saul Dubow FRHistS | |
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Born | Cape Town, South Africa | 28 October 1959
Nationality | South African |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Thesis | Segregation and native administration in South Africa, 1920-1936 (1986) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Institutions |
Saul H. Dubow, Professorial Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He previously taught at University of Sussex and Queen Mary, University of London.
Early life and education
Dubow was born on 28 October 1959 in
doctoral thesis was titled "Segregation and 'native administration' in South Africa, 1920-1936",[4]
which formed the basis for his first book, Racial Segregation and the Origins of Apartheid (1989).
Academic career
From 1987 to 1989, Dubow was a
In October 2016, it was announced that he had been elected as the next
Professorial Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.[1][7] Based in the Faculty of History, he teaches courses on the history of modern South Africa, and has wide ranging research interests from racial segregation and Apartheid to intellectual history and the history of science.[8] He delivered his inaugural lecture in November 2018,[9] which is published as `Global Science, National Horizons: South Africa in Deep Time and Space’, Historical Journal, published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 March 2020.[10]
Honours
Dubow is an elected
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).[11] He is an honorary professor of the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town.[12]
Editorial Board, South African Journal of Science and Journal of Southern African Studies; Chair, Management Committee, Centre of African Studies, Cambridge University.
Selected works
- Dubow, Saul (1989). Racial Segregation and the Origins of Apartheid in South Africa, 1919–36. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 978-1-349-20041-2.
- Dubow, Saul (1995). Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-47907-3.
- ISBN 978-1-134-85033-4.
- Dubow, Saul (2000). The African National Congress. Cape Town: Jonathan Ball. ISBN 978-1-86842-097-1.
- Dubow, Saul, ed. (2000). Science and Society in Southern Africa. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-5812-7.
- Dubow, Saul; Jeeves, Alan, eds. (2005). South Africa's 1940s: Worlds of Possibilities. Cape Town: Juta and Company Ltd. ISBN 978-1-77013-001-2.
- Dubow, Saul (2006). A Commonwealth of Knowledge: Science, Sensibility, and White South Africa 1820-2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-929663-7.
- Dubow, Saul (2012). South Africa's Struggle for Human Rights. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. ISBN 978-0-8214-4440-5.
- Dubow, Saul (2014). Apartheid, 1948-1994. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-955067-8.
- Dubow, Saul, ed. (2013). The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume II: Colonial Knowledges. Farnham, UK: Ashgate. ISBN 978-1-40-943666-9.
- Dubow, Saul; Drayton, Richard, eds. (2020). Commonwealth History in the Twenty-First Century. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-41787-1.
- Dubow, Saul; Beinart, William (2021). The Scientific Imagination in South Africa 1700 to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. S2CID 241130845.
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
- ^ a b c d "Saul Dubow elected Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History". Faculty of History. University of Cambridge. 19 October 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- ^ a b "Professor Saul Dubow". School of History. Queen Mary, University of London. Archived from the original on 30 November 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- ^ Dubow, S. (1986). Segregation and 'native administration' in South Africa, 1920-1936. E-Thesis Online Service (Ph.D). The British Library Board. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
- ^ "Professor Saul Dubow". Events at The University of Melbourne. University of Melbourne. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
- ^ "Saul Dubow". University of Sussex. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
- ^ "Professor Saul Dubow". Magdalene College. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
- ^ "Professor Saul Dubow". Faculty of History. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- ^ "Frontiers of Scientific Knowledge in South Africa: Global Science, National Horizon". Magdalene College. University of Cambridge. 28 November 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
- S2CID 216267678.
- ^ "Fellows - D" (PDF). Royal Historical Society. August 2018. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
- ^ "Honorary Professors". Centre for African Studies. University of Cape Town. Retrieved 29 October 2018.