Shula Marks

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.

Career

* Lecturer in the history of Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 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 Richmond 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 Sussex 1988-91
* chair, International Records Management Trust 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)

References

* Who's Who 2006
* Debrett's People of Today 2006