{{Short description|South African historian (born 1938)}} {{Multiple issues| {{resume-like|date=June 2018}} {{Prose|date=February 2023}} }} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Shula Eta Marks | honorific_suffix = [[OBE]], [[Fellow of the British Academy|FBA]] | image = | caption = | alt = | birth_name = Shula Eta Winokur | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1938|10|14|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Cape Town]] | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = [[University of Cape Town]], [[University of London]] | occupation = [[Author]], [[scholar]], [[journalist]] | years_active = | employer = [[School of Oriental and African Studies]], [[University of London]] | organization = | known_for = Divided Sisterhood | notable_works = | style = | spouse = [[Isaac Marks]] | partner = | children = 2 | parents = | relatives = | awards = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Shula Eta Marks''', [[OBE]], [[Fellow of the British Academy|FBA]] (born 14 October 1938, in [[Cape Town]]) is a South African-British historian and author. She is a [[emeritus professor]] of [[history]] at the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] of the [[University of London]]. She has written at least seven books and a [[World Health Organization|WHO]] monograph on Health and Apartheid, concerning experiences and [[public health]] issues in South Africa. Some of her current [[public health]] work involves the fight against the spread of [[HIV/AIDS]] in contemporary South Africa.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fotac.org/patron/Professor-Shula-Marks|title=オンライン査定のメリット {{!}} バイクの買取に便利なオンライン査定って？|website=www.fotac.org|language=ja|access-date=2018-01-08}}</ref>
She was born Shula Eta Winokur in Cape Town and was educated at the [[University of Cape Town]] (BA) and the University of London (PhD). She also holds three honorary doctorates.<ref>[http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/9885/Shula-Eta-MARKS Debrett's reference for Shula Eta Marks] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20141126152959/http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/9885/Shula-Eta-MARKS |date=2014-11-26 }}</ref> She is married to Professor [[Isaac Marks]], emeritus professor at [[King's College London]]. She has two children: Lara, a historian of medicine, and Raphael, an architect.<ref>[[David Birmingham]], 'Shula: A Personal Tribute'. ''Journal of Southern African Studies'', 27/3, Sept 2001.</ref>
== Career == * Lecturer in the history of Africa, [[Institute of Commonwealth Studies]] and SOAS (jointly) 1963–1976 * Reader in the history of Southern Africa, 1976–84; Professor of Commonwealth history 1984–93 and Director, 1983–1993, Institute of Commonwealth Studies * Hon DLitt, [[University of Cape Town]], 1994 * Hon DSocSci, [[University of Natal]], 1996 * Professor of history of Southern Africa [[SOAS]] 1993–2001 (professor emeritus 2001���, honorary fellow 2005) <ref>{{cite web|title=SOAS Honorary Fellows|url=https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/fellows/|publisher=SOAS}}</ref> * Douglas Southall Freeman professor, [[University of Richmond]] 2005 * Hon [[Doctor of Literature and Philosophy|DLitt et Phil]], [[University of Johannesburg]], 2012
== Other positions and honours == * Consultant, [[World Health Organization]], 1977–1980 * President, African Studies Association of the UK (ASAUK), 1978–1979 * Chair, World University Southern African Scholarships Committee, 1981–1992 * Council Society for Protection of Science and Learning (now Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA)), 1983–2013 (chair 1993–2004) * Governor, Institute of Development Studies, [[University of Sussex]], 1988–1991 * Chair, The International Records Management Trust, 1989–2004 * Advisory Council on Public Records, 1989–1994 * Governing Body Queen Elizabeth House Oxford, 1991–1994 * Commonwealth Scholarships Commission, 1992–1998 * [[Fellow of the British Academy]] (FBA),<ref>{{cite web|title=Fellows of the British Academy|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/ord.cfm?member=2970|website=FellBritish Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences|publisher=British Academy|accessdate=26 June 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150629001428/http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/ord.cfm?member=2970|archivedate=29 June 2015}}</ref> 1995 * [[OBE]], 1996 * 7th Annual Bindoff lecture, "Rewriting South African history, or, The hunt for Hintsa's head", [http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Queen+Mary+and+Westfield+College+(University+of+London)%22 Queen Mary and Westfield College] ([[University of London]]), delivered 12 March 1996<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nFoxAQAAIAAJ|title=Rewriting South African history, or, The hunt for Hintsa's head: the seventh annual Bindoff lecture delivered 12 March 1996|last1=Marks|first1=Shula|date=1996-01-01|publisher=Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London|isbn=9780904188257|language=en}}</ref> * Humanities Research Board 1997–98, a [[non-departmental public body|Non-Departmental Government Body]] of the British Research Council * [[Arts and Humanities Research Council]] (AHRB), 1998–2000 * Vice-president, [[Royal African Society]], 1999– * Distinguished Africanist Award, African Studies Association of the UK, 2002 * Trustee, Council Member, [[Canon Collins Educational & Legal Assistance Trust]], 2004–2014
== Publications == * ''Reluctant Rebellion: An Assessment of the 1906–08 Disturbance in Natal'' (1970)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/reluctantrebelli0000mark|title=Reluctant Rebellion: Disturbances in Natal, 1906-08|last=Marks|first=Shula|date=1970-04-23|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780198216551|location=Oxford|language=English|url-access=registration}}</ref> * ''Economy and Society in Preindustrial South Africa'' (edited jointly with [https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&field-author=Anthony+Atmore&search-alias=books&text=Anthony+Atmore&sort=relevancerank Anthony Atmore], 1980)<ref>{{Cite book|title=Economy and Society in Pre-industrial South Africa|last=Marks|first=Shula; Atmore, Anthony|date=1981|publisher=Longman|isbn=9780582646568|edition= First printing|location=London|language=English}}</ref> * ''Industrialisation and Social Change in South Africa: African class formation, culture, and consciousness, 1870–1930'' (Edited jointly with [http://www.richardrathbone.org/articles_old.php Richard Rathbone], 1982), London and New York: Longman, 383 pages<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/industrialisation-and-social-change-in-south-africa-african-class-formation-culture-and-consciousness-1870-1930/oclc/8386667/editions?start_edition=11&sd=asc&referer=di&se=yr&editionsView=true&fq=|title=Formats and Editions of Industrialisation and social change in South Africa : African class formation, culture, and consciousness, 1870-1930 [WorldCat.org]|website=www.worldcat.org|language=en|access-date=2018-01-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tDmFAAAAIAAJ|title=Industrialisation and social change in South Africa: African class formation, culture, and consciousness, 1870-1930|last1=Marks|first1=Shula|last2=Rathbone|first2=Richard|date=1982|publisher=Longman|isbn=9780582643383|language=en}}</ref> * [[WHO]] monograph on Health and Apartheid, co-authored, 1983 * ''Ambiguities of Dependence in South Africa: Class, Nationalism and the State in Twentieth Century Natal'' (1986)<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Ambiguities of Dependence in South Africa: Class, Nationalism, and the State in 20th Century Natal|last=Marks|first=Shula|date=1986-07-01|publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press|isbn=9780801832673|location=Baltimore|language=English}}</ref> * ''The Politics of Race, Class and Nationalism in Twentieth Century South Africa'' (edited jointly with Stanley Trapido, 1987)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Nationalism-Twentieth-Century-Africa-ebook/dp/B00NXQI0JG|title=The Politics of Race, Class and Nationalism in Twentieth Century South Africa eBook: S. Mark, Stanley Trapido, S. Marks: Kindle Store|website=www.amazon.com|access-date=2018-01-08}}</ref> * ''Not Either an Experimental Doll: The Separate Worlds of Three South African Women'' (1987)<ref>{{Cite book|title=Not Either an Experimental Doll: The Separate Worlds of Three South African Women|date=1988-12-22|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=9780253286406|editor-last=Marks|editor-first=Shula|edition= Reprint|location=Bloomington|language=English}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/noteitherexperim00moya|url-access=registration|title=Not Either an Experimental Doll: The Separate Worlds of Three South African Women|last=Moya|first=Lily Patience|date=1988|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=0253286409|language=en}}</ref> * ''Divided Sisterhood: Race Class and Nationalism in the South African Nursing Profession'' (1994)<ref>{{Cite book|title=Divided Sisterhood: Race, Class and Gender in the South African Nursing Profession|last=Marks|first=Shula|date=1994-02-01|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=9780312106430|location=New York|language=English}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
===Sources=== * [[Who's Who (UK)|''Who's Who'' 2006]] * [[Debrett's]] ''People of Today'' 2006<ref>[http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/9885/Shula-Eta-MARKS Debrett's reference for Shula Eta Marks] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20141126152959/http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/9885/Shula-Eta-MARKS |date=2014-11-26 }}</ref> * [https://www.amazon.com/Shula-Marks/e/B001IYVJUM/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0 Author page for Shula Marks] at Amazon
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