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South African historian and academic

Saul Dubow FRHistS Saul Dubow Born (1959-10-28) 28 October 1959 (age 66) Cape Town, South Africa Academic background Alma mater University of Cape Town University of Oxford Thesis Segregation and native administration in South Africa, 1920-1936 (1986) Academic work Discipline History Institutions Institute of Commonwealth Studies University of Sussex Queen Mary, University of London University of Cambridge Magdalene College, Cambridge

**Saul H. Dubow**, [FRHistS](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Historical_Society) (born 28 October 1959) is a South African historian and academic, specialising in the [history of South Africa](/source/History_of_South_Africa) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Since 2016, he has been the [Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History](/source/Smuts_Professor_of_Commonwealth_History) at the [University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge) and a [Professorial Fellow](/source/Professorial_Fellow) of [Magdalene College, Cambridge](/source/Magdalene_College%2C_Cambridge). He previously taught at [University of Sussex](/source/University_of_Sussex) and [Queen Mary](/source/Queen_Mary_University_of_London), [University of London](/source/University_of_London).

## Early life and education

Dubow was born on 28 October 1959 in [Cape Town](/source/Cape_Town), South Africa.[1] He studied at the [University of Cape Town](/source/University_of_Cape_Town), graduating with a [Bachelor of Arts](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) (BA) degree in 1981.[1][2] He then moved to England to undertake postgraduate studies at the [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford).[3] As a member of [St Antony's College, Oxford](/source/St_Antony's_College%2C_Oxford), he completed his [Doctor of Philosophy](/source/Doctor_of_Philosophy) (DPhil) degree in 1986.[1] His [doctoral thesis](/source/Doctoral_thesis) was titled "Segregation and 'native administration' in South Africa, 1920-1936",[4] 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](/source/British_Academy) [post-doctoral fellow](/source/Post-doctoral_fellow) at the [Institute of Commonwealth Studies](/source/Institute_of_Commonwealth_Studies), [University of London](/source/University_of_London).[2][1] He then moved to the [University of Sussex](/source/University_of_Sussex) as a lecturer in 1989.[1] Having been promoted to [senior lecturer](/source/Senior_lecturer) and [reader](/source/Reader_(academic_rank)) over the intervening years, he was appointed [Professor](/source/Professor_(highest_academic_rank)) of History in 2001.[1][5] He was awarded an [Arts and Humanities Research Council](/source/Arts_and_Humanities_Research_Council) fellowship for 2012.[6] In 2013, he moved to [Queen Mary, University of London](/source/Queen_Mary%2C_University_of_London) where he had been appointed Professor of African History.[2][3]

In October 2016, it was announced that he had been elected as the next [Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History](/source/Smuts_Professor_of_Commonwealth_History) at the [University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge) in succession to [Megan Vaughan](/source/Megan_Vaughan).[2] He took up the chair in 2017 and was additionally elected a [Professorial Fellow](/source/Professorial_Fellow) of [Magdalene College, Cambridge](/source/Magdalene_College%2C_Cambridge).[1][7] Based in the [Faculty of History](/source/Faculty_of_History%2C_University_of_Cambridge), he teaches courses on the [history of modern South Africa](/source/History_of_South_Africa), and has wide ranging research interests from [racial segregation](/source/Racial_segregation) and [Apartheid](/source/Apartheid) to [intellectual history](/source/Intellectual_history) and the history of science.[8] He delivered his inaugural lecture in November 2018,[9] 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.[10]

## Honours

Dubow is an elected [Fellow of the Royal Historical Society](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Historical_Society) (FRHistS).[11] He is an honorary professor of the Centre for African Studies at the [University of Cape Town](/source/University_of_Cape_Town).[12] Editorial Board, *South African Journal of Science* and *Journal of Southern African Studies*; Chair, Management Committee, Centre of African Studies, Cambridge University.

## Selected works

- Dubow, Saul (1989). [*Racial Segregation and the Origins of Apartheid in South Africa, 1919–36*](https://books.google.com/books?id=eE2xCwAAQBAJ). London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-349-20041-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-349-20041-2).

- Dubow, Saul (1995). [*Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa*](https://archive.org/details/scientificracism0000dubo). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-521-47907-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-47907-3).

- [Beinart, William](/source/William_Beinart); Dubow, Saul, eds. (1995). [*Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth Century South Africa*](https://books.google.com/books?id=KqI7O6ewhAoC). New York, NY: Routledge. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-134-85033-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-134-85033-4).

- Dubow, Saul (2000). [*The African National Congress*](https://books.google.com/books?id=RTBEAQAAIAAJ). Cape Town: Jonathan Ball. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-86842-097-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-86842-097-1).

- Dubow, Saul, ed. (2000). [*Science and Society in Southern Africa*](https://books.google.com/books?id=Y3sXjhduOkIC). Manchester: Manchester University Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-7190-5812-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7190-5812-7).

- Dubow, Saul; Jeeves, Alan, eds. (2005). [*South Africa's 1940s: Worlds of Possibilities*](https://books.google.com/books?id=Uj1sFaNSBd8C). Cape Town: Juta and Company Ltd. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-77013-001-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-77013-001-2).

- Dubow, Saul (2006). [*A Commonwealth of Knowledge: Science, Sensibility, and White South Africa 1820-2000*](https://books.google.com/books?id=yFMVDAAAQBAJ). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-19-929663-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-929663-7).

- Dubow, Saul (2012). [*South Africa's Struggle for Human Rights*](https://books.google.com/books?id=AuJZnNIdi0EC). Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-8214-4440-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8214-4440-5).

- Dubow, Saul (2014). [*Apartheid, 1948-1994*](https://books.google.com/books?id=v0aHCgAAQBAJ). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-19-955067-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-955067-8).

- Dubow, Saul, ed. (2013). *The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume II: Colonial Knowledges*. Farnham, UK: Ashgate. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-40-943666-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-40-943666-9).

- Dubow, Saul; Drayton, Richard, eds. (2020). *Commonwealth History in the Twenty-First Century*. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-3-030-41787-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-030-41787-1).

- Dubow, Saul; Beinart, William (2021). [*The Scientific Imagination in South Africa 1700 to the Present*](https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108938198). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1017/9781108938198](https://doi.org/10.1017%2F9781108938198). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781108837088](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781108837088). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [241130845](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:241130845).

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-WW_2018_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-WW_2018_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-WW_2018_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-WW_2018_1-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-WW_2018_1-4) [***f***](#cite_ref-WW_2018_1-5) [***g***](#cite_ref-WW_2018_1-6) ["Dubow, Prof. Saul"](http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-288111). *[Who's Who 2018](/source/Who's_Who_2018)*. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2017. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U288111](https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fww%2F9780199540884.013.U288111). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-19-954088-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-954088-4). Retrieved 29 October 2018.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-elected_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-elected_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-elected_2-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-elected_2-3) ["Saul Dubow elected Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History"](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). *Faculty of History*. University of Cambridge. 19 October 2016. Archived from [the original](https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/z-archive-news/027-saul-dubow-elected-smuts-professor-of-commonwealth-history) on 29 October 2018. Retrieved 6 October 2017.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-QMUL_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-QMUL_3-1) ["Professor Saul Dubow"](https://web.archive.org/web/20161130110529/http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk/staff/profile/4527-professor-saul-dubow/). *School of History*. Queen Mary, University of London. Archived from [the original](http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk/staff/profile/4527-professor-saul-dubow) on 30 November 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Dubow, S. (1986). [*Segregation and 'native administration' in South Africa, 1920-1936*](https://web.archive.org/web/20211028143404/https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.381814). *E-Thesis Online Service* (Ph.D). The British Library Board. Archived from [the original](https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.381814) on 28 October 2021. Retrieved 29 October 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Professor Saul Dubow"](https://events.unimelb.edu.au/presenters/298-professor-saul-dubow). *Events at The University of Melbourne*. University of Melbourne. Retrieved 29 October 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Saul Dubow"](http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/760). *University of Sussex*. Retrieved 29 October 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-bio_college_7-0)** ["Professor Saul Dubow"](https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/user/dubow). *Magdalene College*. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 29 October 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-bio_Faculty_8-0)** ["Professor Saul Dubow"](https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/directory/professor-saul-dubow). *Faculty of History*. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 6 October 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** ["Frontiers of Scientific Knowledge in South Africa: Global Science, National Horizon"](https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/events/frontiers-scientific-knowledge-south-africa). *Magdalene College*. University of Cambridge. 28 November 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2019.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** Dubow, Saul (2020). ["Global Science, National Horizons: South Africa in Deep Time and Space"](https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0018246X19000700). *The Historical Journal*. **63** (5): 1079–1106. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1017/S0018246X19000700](https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0018246X19000700). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [216267678](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:216267678).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** ["Fellows - D"](https://5hm1h4aktue2uejbs1hsqt31-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/RHS-Fellows-D.pdf) (PDF). *Royal Historical Society*. August 2018. Retrieved 29 October 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** ["Honorary Professors"](http://www.africanstudies.uct.ac.za/honorary-professors). *Centre for African Studies*. University of Cape Town. Retrieved 29 October 2018.

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