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Saul Dubow

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Saul Dubow
Saul Dubow
Saul Dubow
Born(1959-10-28)28 October 1959(age 65)
Cape Town,South Africa
NationalitySouth African
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisSegregation and native administration in South Africa, 1920-1936(1986)
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Institutions

Saul H. Dubow,FRHistS(born 28 October 1959) is a South African historian and academic, specialising in thehistory of South Africain the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Since 2016, he has been theSmuts Professor of Commonwealth Historyat theUniversity of Cambridgeand aProfessorial FellowofMagdalene College, Cambridge.He previously taught atUniversity of SussexandQueen Mary,University of London.

Early life and education

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Dubow was born on 28 October 1959 inCape Town,South Africa.[1]He studied at theUniversity of Cape Town,graduating with aBachelor of Arts(BA) degree in 1981.[1][2]He then moved to England to undertake postgraduate studies at theUniversity of Oxford.[3]As a member ofSt Antony's College, Oxford,he completed hisDoctor of Philosophy(DPhil) degree in 1986.[1]Hisdoctoral thesiswas 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

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From 1987 to 1989, Dubow was aBritish Academypost-doctoral fellowat theInstitute of Commonwealth Studies,University of London.[2][1]He then moved to theUniversity of Sussexas a lecturer in 1989.[1]Having been promoted tosenior lecturerandreaderover the intervening years, he was appointedProfessorof History in 2001.[1][5]He was awarded anArts and Humanities Research Councilfellowship for 2012.[6]In 2013, he moved toQueen Mary, University of Londonwhere he had been appointed Professor of African History.[2][3]

In October 2016, it was announced that he had been elected as the nextSmuts Professor of Commonwealth Historyat theUniversity of Cambridgein succession toMegan Vaughan.[2]He took up the chair in 2017 and was additionally elected aProfessorial FellowofMagdalene College, Cambridge.[1][7]Based in theFaculty of History,he teaches courses on thehistory of modern South Africa,and has wide ranging research interests fromracial segregationandApartheidtointellectual historyand 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

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Dubow is an electedFellow of the Royal Historical Society(FRHistS).[11]He is an honorary professor of the Centre for African Studies at theUniversity of Cape Town.[12] Editorial Board,South African Journal of ScienceandJournal of Southern African Studies;Chair, Management Committee, Centre of African Studies, Cambridge University.

Selected works

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References

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  1. ^abcdefg"Dubow, Prof. Saul".Who's Who 2018.Oxford University Press. 1 December 2017.doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U288111.ISBN978-0-19-954088-4.Retrieved29 October2018.
  2. ^abcd"Saul Dubow elected Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History".Faculty of History.University of Cambridge. 19 October 2016.Retrieved6 October2017.
  3. ^ab"Professor Saul Dubow".School of History.Queen Mary, University of London. Archived fromthe originalon 30 November 2016.Retrieved6 October2017.
  4. ^Dubow, S. (1986).Segregation and 'native administration' in South Africa, 1920-1936.E-Thesis Online Service(Ph.D). The British Library Board.Retrieved29 October2018.
  5. ^"Professor Saul Dubow".Events at The University of Melbourne.University of Melbourne.Retrieved29 October2018.
  6. ^"Saul Dubow".University of Sussex.Retrieved29 October2018.
  7. ^"Professor Saul Dubow".Magdalene College.University of Cambridge.Retrieved29 October2018.
  8. ^"Professor Saul Dubow".Faculty of History.University of Cambridge.Retrieved6 October2017.
  9. ^"Frontiers of Scientific Knowledge in South Africa: Global Science, National Horizon".Magdalene College.University of Cambridge. 28 November 2018.Retrieved3 February2019.
  10. ^Dubow, Saul (2020)."Global Science, National Horizons: South Africa in Deep Time and Space".The Historical Journal.63(5): 1079–1106.doi:10.1017/S0018246X19000700.S2CID216267678.
  11. ^"Fellows - D"(PDF).Royal Historical Society.August 2018.Retrieved29 October2018.
  12. ^"Honorary Professors".Centre for African Studies.University of Cape Town.Retrieved29 October2018.
Academic offices
Preceded by Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History
2017 to present
Incumbent