Professor Saul Dubow
College positions: Professorial Fellow, College Lecturer in History, Garden Steward
University position: Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History
Subject: History
Group membership: Governing Body, Fellowship Committee
Professor Saul Dubow is the Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History and a College Lecturer in History at Magdalene.
Professor Dubow grew up in South Africa and studied at the universities of Cape Town and Oxford. He has taught at the Universities of Sussex and Queen Mary, London.
His teaching and research concentrate on the history of modern South Africa from the early nineteenth century to the present. He has published widely on the development of racial segregation and apartheid in all its aspects: political, ideological, intellectual and institutional. He has particular interests in the history of science, empire, Africa, and global intellectual history.
Qualifications
- D.Phil, Oxon
Professional Affiliations
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
- Editorial Board, Journal of Southern African Studies
KEY PUBLICATIONS
Apartheid, 1948-1994, Oxford University Press, 2014, ISBN: 9780199550661.
A Commonwealth of Knowledge: Science, Sensibility, and White South Africa 1820-2000, Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN: 9780199296637.
Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa, Cambridge University Press, 1995, ISBN: 9780521479073.
Email
shd28@cam.ac.uk