| Post: | Professor of History |
| Location: | Arts B B362 |
| Email: | S.Dubow@sussex.ac.uk |
| Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 8565 |
| UK: | (01273) 678565 |
| International: | +44 1273 678565 |
Biography
Professor Saul Dubow was educated at the Universities of Cape Town and Oxford and has been at Sussex University since 1989. His teaching and research concentrates on the history of modern South Africa from the early-nineteenth century to the present. His research bears on the development of racial segregation and apartheid in all its aspects: political, ideological and intellectual. He has special interests in the history of race, ethnicity and national identity, as well as the nature of imperialism and of colonial science.
Professor Dubow's principal publications include:
- 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)
- Racial Segregation and the Origins of Apartheid in Twentieth Century South Africa, 1919-36 (Macmillan, 1989
- The African National Congress (2000).
In addition, Saul Dubow has edited Science and Society in Southern Africa (Manchester, 2000); South Africa's 1940s: Worlds of Possibilities (Double Storey, 2005); a new edition of W.Sachs' Black Hamlet, with Jacqueline Rose (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996); Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth-Century South Africa, with William Beinart (Routledge,1995); and Charles Bloomberg's Christian-Nationalism and the Development of the Afrikaner Broederbond, 1918-48 Macmillan, 1990).
Professor Dubow is Chair of the Board of the Journal of Southern African Studies and co-director of the Centre for Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies at Sussex.
His teaching includes courses on the Concept of 'Race', British Imperialism, African History, and Modern South Africa.