PROF SAUL DUBOW (Sussex University)
Prof Saul Dubow is Professor of History at Sussex University. His teaching and research concentrate on the history of modern South Africa from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. His work has focussed on the development of racial segregation and apartheid in all their aspects. He is currently the holder of a British Academy Research Readership and is completing a book on The Commonwealth of Knowledge.
His principal publications include Racial Segregation and the Origins of Apartheid in Twentieth Century South Africa, 1919-36 (1989) and Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa (1995). He has also edited several books, most recently Science and Society in Southern Africa (2000) and has written a short history of the African National Congress (2000). He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Southern African Studies and is director of the Southern African Research Centre. His teaching includes courses on the idea of race, British Imperialism, African History, and Modern South Africa.