Shula Eta Marks, OBE, FBA (born 14 October 1938, in

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) is

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at the

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of the

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. She has written at least seven books and a WHO monograph on Health and Apartheid, concerning experiences and

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issues in South Africa. Some of her current

work involves the fight against the spread of

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in contemporary South Africa. She was born Shula Eta Winokur in Cape Town and educated at the

University of Cape Town The University of Cape Town (UCT) ( af, Universiteit van Kaapstad, xh, Yunibesithi ya yaseKapa) is a public research university in Cape Town, South Africa. Established in 1829 as the South African College, it was granted full university statu ...

(BA) and the University of London (PhD). She also holds three honorary doctorates. She is married to Professor

Isaac Marks Isaac Meyer Marks (born 1935) was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He trained in medicine there, qualifying in 1956. His training as a psychiatrist began in 1960 at the University of London (at the Bethlem-Maudsley Hospital) and was completed in 1 ...

, emeritus professor at

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. She has two children: Lara, a historian of medicine, and Raphael, an architect.

Career

* Lecturer in the history of Africa,

Institute of Commonwealth Studies The Institute of Commonwealth Studies, founded in 1949, is the sole postgraduate academic institution in the United Kingdom devoted to the study of the Commonwealth. It is also home to the longest-running interdisciplinary and practice-oriented ...

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,

, 1994 * Hon DSocSci,

University of Natal The University of Natal was a university in the former South African province Natal which later became KwaZulu-Natal. The University of Natal no longer exists as a distinct legal entity, as it was incorporated into the University of KwaZulu-N ...

, 1996 * Professor of history of Southern Africa SOAS 1993-2001 (professor emeritus 2001-, honorary fellow 2005) * Douglas Southall Freeman professor,

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2005 * Hon DLitt et Phil,

University of Johannesburg The University of Johannesburg (UJ) is a public university located in Johannesburg, South Africa. The University of Johannesburg came into existence on 1 January 2005 as the result of a merger between the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), the ...

, 2012

Other positions and honours

* Consultant,

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, 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,

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, 1988-1991 * Chair,

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, 1989-2004 * Advisory Council on Public Records, 1989-1994 * Governing Body Queen Elizabeth House Oxford, 1991-1994 * Commonwealth Scholarships Commission, 1992-1998 *

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(FBA), 1995 * OBE, 1996 * 7th Annual Bindoff lecture, "Rewriting South African history, or, The hunt for Hintsa's head"
Queen Mary and Westfield College
(

), delivered 12 March 1996 * Humanities Research Board 1997-98, a Non-Departmental Government Body of the British Research Council *

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(AHRB), 1998-2000 * Vice-president,

Royal African Society The Royal African Society (RAS) of the United Kingdom was founded in 1901 to promote relations between the United Kingdom and countries in Africa. The RAS is a not-for-profit membership organisation based in London. In addition to producing its jour ...

, 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) * Economy and Society in Preindustrial South Africa (Edited jointly wit
Anthony Atmore
1980) * Industrialisation and Social Change in South Africa: African class formation, culture, and consciousness, 1870-1930 (Edited jointly wit
Richard Rathbone
1982), Longman, London and New York, 383 pages * 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) * The Politics of Race, Class and Nationalism in Twentieth Century South Africa (Edited jointly with Stanley Trapido, 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

Sources

* Who's Who 2006 *

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