Saul Dubow

{{Short description|South African historian and academic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix =  | name = Saul Dubow | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRHistS}} | image = SaulDubow.jpg | image_size = | alt = Saul Dubow | caption = Saul Dubow | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name =  | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1959|10|28}} | birth_place = [[Cape Town]], South Africa | death_date =  | death_place = | death_cause = | region = | other_names = | occupation = | period = | known_for = | title = | boards =  | spouse = | children = | parents = | family = | awards =  | website = | education = | alma_mater = {{plainlist| * [[University of Cape Town]] * [[University of Oxford]] }} | thesis_title = Segregation and native administration in South Africa, 1920-1936 | thesis_url = http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:LSCOP_OX:oxfaleph011409052 | thesis_year = 1986 | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | influences =  | era = | discipline = History | sub_discipline =  | workplaces = {{plainlist| * [[Institute of Commonwealth Studies]] * [[University of Sussex]] * [[Queen Mary University of London|Queen Mary]], [[University of London]] * [[University of Cambridge]] * [[Magdalene College, Cambridge]] }} | doctoral_students = | notable_students =  | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced =  | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = }} '''Saul H. Dubow''', {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRHistS}} (born 28 October 1959) is a South African historian and academic, specialising in the [[history of South Africa]] in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Since 2016, he has been the [[Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History]] at the [[University of Cambridge]] and a [[Professorial Fellow]] of [[Magdalene College, Cambridge]]. He previously taught at [[University of Sussex]] and [[Queen Mary University of London|Queen Mary]], [[University of London]].

==Early life and education== Dubow was born on 28 October 1959 in [[Cape Town]], South Africa.<ref name="WW 2018">{{cite web |title=Dubow, Prof. Saul |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-288111 |website=[[Who's Who 2018]] |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=29 October 2018 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U288111 |date=1 December 2017|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4 }}</ref> He studied at the [[University of Cape Town]], graduating with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] (BA) degree in 1981.<ref name="WW 2018" /><ref name="elected">{{cite news|title=Saul Dubow elected Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History|url=https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/z-archive-news/027-saul-dubow-elected-smuts-professor-of-commonwealth-history|website=Faculty of History|publisher=University of Cambridge|access-date=6 October 2017|date=19 October 2016|archive-date=29 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181029152233/https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/z-archive-news/027-saul-dubow-elected-smuts-professor-of-commonwealth-history|url-status=dead}}</ref> He then moved to England to undertake postgraduate studies at the [[University of Oxford]].<ref name="QMUL" /> As a member of [[St Antony's College, Oxford]], he completed his [[Doctor of Philosophy]] (DPhil) degree in 1986.<ref name="WW 2018" /> His [[doctoral thesis]] was titled "Segregation and 'native administration' in South Africa, 1920-1936",<ref>{{cite thesis |last1=Dubow |first1=S. |title=Segregation and 'native administration' in South Africa, 1920-1936 |url=https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.381814 |website=E-Thesis Online Service |publisher=The British Library Board |access-date=29 October 2018 |date=1986 |type=Ph.D |archive-date=28 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028143404/https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.381814 |url-status=dead }}</ref> which formed the basis for his first book, Racial Segregation and the Origins of Apartheid (1989).

==Academic career== From 1987 to 1989, Dubow was a [[British Academy]] [[post-doctoral fellow]] at the [[Institute of Commonwealth Studies]], [[University of London]].<ref name="elected" /><ref name="WW 2018" /> He then moved to the [[University of Sussex]] as a lecturer in 1989.<ref name="WW 2018" /> Having been promoted to [[senior lecturer]] and [[Reader (academic rank)|reader]] over the intervening years, he was appointed [[Professor (highest academic rank)|Professor]] of History in 2001.<ref name="WW 2018" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Professor Saul Dubow |url=https://events.unimelb.edu.au/presenters/298-professor-saul-dubow |website=Events at The University of Melbourne |publisher=University of Melbourne |access-date=29 October 2018 |language=en}}</ref> He was awarded an [[Arts and Humanities Research Council]] fellowship for 2012.<ref>{{cite web |title=Saul Dubow |url=http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/760 |website=University of Sussex |access-date=29 October 2018}}</ref> In 2013, he moved to [[Queen Mary, University of London]] where he had been appointed Professor of African History.<ref name="elected" /><ref name="QMUL">{{cite web|title=Professor Saul Dubow|url=http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk/staff/profile/4527-professor-saul-dubow|website=School of History|publisher=Queen Mary, University of London|access-date=6 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161130110529/http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk/staff/profile/4527-professor-saul-dubow/ |archive-date=30 November 2016}}</ref>

In October 2016, it was announced that he had been elected as the next [[Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History]] at the [[University of Cambridge]] in succession to [[Megan Vaughan]].<ref name="elected" /> He took up the chair in 2017 and was additionally elected a [[Professorial Fellow]] of [[Magdalene College, Cambridge]].<ref name="WW 2018" /><ref name="bio college">{{cite web |title=Professor Saul Dubow |url=https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/user/dubow |website=Magdalene College |publisher=University of Cambridge |access-date=29 October 2018 |language=en}}</ref> Based in the [[Faculty of History, University of Cambridge|Faculty of History]], he teaches courses on the [[History of South Africa|history of modern South Africa]], and has wide ranging research interests from [[racial segregation]] and [[Apartheid]] to [[intellectual history]] and the history of science.<ref name="bio Faculty">{{cite web|title=Professor Saul Dubow|url=https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/directory/professor-saul-dubow|website=Faculty of History|publisher=University of Cambridge|access-date=6 October 2017}}</ref> He delivered his inaugural lecture in November 2018,<ref>{{cite web |title=Frontiers of Scientific Knowledge in South Africa: Global Science, National Horizon |url=https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/events/frontiers-scientific-knowledge-south-africa |website=Magdalene College |publisher=University of Cambridge |access-date=3 February 2019 |language=en |date=28 November 2018}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite journal|doi=10.1017/S0018246X19000700|title=Global Science, National Horizons: South Africa in Deep Time and Space|year=2020|last1=Dubow|first1=Saul|journal=The Historical Journal|volume=63|issue=5|pages=1079–1106|s2cid=216267678|doi-access=free}}</ref>

==Honours== Dubow is an elected [[Fellow of the Royal Historical Society]] (FRHistS).<ref>{{cite web |title=Fellows - D |url=https://5hm1h4aktue2uejbs1hsqt31-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/RHS-Fellows-D.pdf |website=Royal Historical Society |access-date=29 October 2018 |date=August 2018}}</ref> He is an honorary professor of the Centre for African Studies at the [[University of Cape Town]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Honorary Professors |url=http://www.africanstudies.uct.ac.za/honorary-professors |website=Centre for African Studies |publisher=University of Cape Town |access-date=29 October 2018}}</ref> Editorial Board, ''South African Journal of Science'' and ''Journal of Southern African Studies''; Chair, Management Committee, Centre of African Studies, Cambridge University.

==Selected works==

* {{cite book |last=Dubow |first=Saul |title=Racial Segregation and the Origins of Apartheid in South Africa, 1919–36 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eE2xCwAAQBAJ |year=1989|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |location=London |isbn=978-1-349-20041-2 }} * {{cite book |last=Dubow |first=Saul |title=Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa |url=https://archive.org/details/scientificracism0000dubo |url-access=registration |year=1995 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0-521-47907-3}} * {{cite book |editor1=Beinart, William |editor-link1=William Beinart |editor2=Dubow, Saul |title=Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth Century South Africa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KqI7O6ewhAoC |year=1995 |publisher=Routledge |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-1-134-85033-4 }} * {{cite book |last=Dubow |first=Saul |title=The African National Congress |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RTBEAQAAIAAJ |year=2000 |publisher=Jonathan Ball |location=Cape Town |isbn=978-1-86842-097-1}} * {{cite book |editor=Dubow, Saul |title=Science and Society in Southern Africa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y3sXjhduOkIC |year=2000 |publisher=Manchester University Press |location=Manchester |isbn=978-0-7190-5812-7 }} * {{cite book |editor1=Dubow, Saul |editor2=Jeeves, Alan |title=South Africa's 1940s: Worlds of Possibilities |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uj1sFaNSBd8C |date=2005 |publisher=Juta and Company Ltd |location=Cape Town |isbn=978-1-77013-001-2 }} * {{cite book |last=Dubow |first=Saul |title=A Commonwealth of Knowledge: Science, Sensibility, and White South Africa 1820-2000 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yFMVDAAAQBAJ |year=2006 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-929663-7}} * {{cite book |last=Dubow |first=Saul |title=South Africa's Struggle for Human Rights |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AuJZnNIdi0EC |date=2012 |publisher=Ohio University Press |location=Athens, Ohio |isbn=978-0-8214-4440-5 }} * {{cite book |last=Dubow |first=Saul |title=Apartheid, 1948-1994 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v0aHCgAAQBAJ |date=2014 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-955067-8 }} * {{cite book |editor=Dubow, Saul |title=The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume II: Colonial Knowledges. |date=2013 | publisher=Ashgate |location=Farnham, UK |isbn= 978-1-40-943666-9 }} * {{cite book |editor1=Dubow, Saul |editor2=Drayton, Richard |title=Commonwealth History in the Twenty-First Century |date=2020 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=London |isbn= 978-3-030-41787-1 }} * {{cite book |last1=Dubow |first1=Saul |title=The Scientific Imagination in South Africa 1700 to the Present. |last2=Beinart |first2=William |url=https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108938198 |year=2021 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |doi=10.1017/9781108938198 |language=English |isbn=9781108837088|s2cid=241130845 }}

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