Qualifications
D.Phil, Oxon
Professor Saul Dubow
Saul Dubow is the Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the Faculty of History and a Professorial Fellow of Magdalene College.
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 concentrates 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.
Professional Affiliations
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Editorial Board, Journal of Southern African Studies
Key Publications
Apartheid: 1948-1994 (Oxford University Press, 2014)
A Commonwealth of Knowledge: Science, Sensibility and White South Africa 1820-2000 (Oxford University Press, 2006)
Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa (Cambridge University Press, 1995)