Shula Marks
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Shula Eta Marks, OBE, FBA (born 14 October 1938, Cape Town
) is emeritus professor of history at the School of Oriental and African Studies
of the University of London
.
She was born Shula Eta Winokur in Cape Town and educated at the University of Cape Town
(BA) and the University of London (PhD). She is married to Professor Isaac Marks
.
Cape Town
Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...
) is emeritus professor of history at the School of Oriental and African Studies
School of Oriental and African Studies
The School of Oriental and African Studies is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the University of London...
of the University of London
University of London
-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
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She was born Shula Eta Winokur in Cape Town and educated at the University of Cape Town
University of Cape Town
The University of Cape Town is a public research university located in Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. UCT was founded in 1829 as the South African College, and is the oldest university in South Africa and the second oldest extant university in Africa.-History:The roots of...
(BA) and the University of London (PhD). She is married to Professor Isaac Marks
Isaac Marks
Isaac Meyer Marks was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He trained in medicine there, qualifying in 1956. His training as a psychiatrist began in 1960 at the University of London and was completed in 1963...
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Career
- Lecturer in the history of Africa, Institute of Commonwealth StudiesInstitute of Commonwealth StudiesThe Institute of Commonwealth Studies, abbreviated to ICS, was founded by the University of London in 1949 to promote academic study of the Commonwealth of Nations and its constituent countries. It became part of the School of Advanced Study in 1994...
and SOAS (jointly) 1963-76 - Reader in the history of Southern Africa 1976-84, professor of Commonwealth history 1984-93 and director 1983-93, Institute of Commonwealth Studies
- Professor of history of Southern Africa SOAS 1993-2001 (professor emeritus 2001-, honorary fellow 2005)
- Douglas Southall Freeman professor, University of RichmondUniversity of RichmondThe University of Richmond is a selective, private, nonsectarian, liberal arts university located on the border of the city of Richmond and Henrico County, Virginia. The University of Richmond is a primarily undergraduate, residential university with approximately 4,000 undergraduate and graduate...
2005
Other positions and honours
- consultant, World Health Organisation 1977-80
- chair, World University Southern African Scholarships Committee 1981-92
- governor, Institute of Development Studies, University of SussexUniversity of SussexThe University of Sussex is an English public research university situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, within the city of Brighton and Hove. The University received its Royal Charter in August 1961....
1988-91 - chair, The International Records Management TrustThe International Records Management TrustThe International Records Management Trust is a United Kingdom based charity, established in 1989 to develop new strategies for managing records and information ....
1989-2004 - FBA, 1995
- OBE, 1996
- Vice-president, Royal African Society, 1999-
- Distinguished Africanist Award 2002
Publications
- Reluctant Rebellion: An Assessment of the 1906-08 Disturbance in Natal (1970)
- Economy and Society in Preindustrial South Africa (ed jtly, 1980)
- Industrialisation and Social Change in South Africa (ed jtly, 1982)
- Ambiguities of Dependence in South Africa: Class, Nationalism and the State in Twentieth Century Natal (1986)
- The Politics of Race, Class and Nationalism in Twentieth Century South Africa (ed jtly, 1987)
- Not Either an Experimental Doll: The Separate Worlds of Three South African Women (1987)
- Divided Sisterhood: Race Class and Nationalism in the South African Nursing Profession (1994)