Colin Bundy
Colin James Bundy (born 4 October 1944) is a South African historian, former principalCanon Collins Educational & Legal Assistance Trust.
Education
He received his
Eastern Cape Province
.
Bundy was educated at the
Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford (1968–70) and a Beit Senior Research Scholar at St Antony's (1970–72), graduating as an M.Phil. and D.Phil. of the University of Oxford with a thesis entitled African Peasants and Economic Change in South Africa, 1870–1913, with Particular Reference to the Cape
(Thesis). University of Oxford. 1976.
Career
Bundy was director and principal of the
School of Oriental and African Studies (2001–06);[4] deputy vice-chancellor of the University of London (2003–06); vice-chancellor and principal of the University of the Witwatersrand (1997-2001); and director of the Institute for Historical Research (1992–94) and vice-rector (1994-97), University of the Western Cape
.
He returned to
Green College, Oxford, becoming the first principal of Green Templeton College on 1 October 2008, when Green College merged with Templeton College. He retired from this position on 1 October 2010.[5]
National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C1149/14) with Colin Bundy in 2010 for its Oral History of Oral History collection held by the British Library.[6]
He is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge.[7]
Publications
His publications include:
- "Land and Liberation: The South African National Liberation Movements and the Agrarian Question, 1920s-1960s". Review of African Political Economy. 11 (129): 14–29. 1984. doi:10.1080/03056248408703565. Archived from the originalon 3 March 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2014.
- History, revolution, and South Africa. University of Cape Town. 1987. ISBN 9780799211047.
- Remaking the Past: New Perspectives in South African History (Cape Town: University of Cape Town, 1987)
- Hidden Struggles in Rural South Africa: Politics & Popular Movements in the Transkei & Eastern Cape, 1890-1930. University of California Press. 1987. ISBN 978-0-520-05780-7. (with William Beinart)
- The Rise and Fall of the South African Peasantry. James Currey Publishers. 1988. ISBN 978-0-85255-047-2.
- The History of the South African Communist Party. University of Cape Town, Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies. 1991. ISBN 978-0-7992-1334-8.
References
- ^ "University of Oxford: Appointments". Archived from the original on 23 June 2009. Retrieved 24 February 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ MacLeod, Donald (21 April 2005). "Soas head resigns after five years". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
- ^ Colin Bundy (1991). "Marxism in South Africa:Context, Themes and Challenges". Transformation. 16: 56–66.
- ^ "SOAS Honorary Fellows". SOAS. Archived from the original on 1 May 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
- ^ Oxford, University of. "Notices, Oxford University Gazette". www.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 27 February 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
- ^ National Life Stories, 'Bundy, Colin (1 of 4) National Life Stories Collection: Oral History of Oral History', The British Library Board, 2010. Retrieved 9 October 2017
- ^ "St Edmund's College - University of Cambridge". www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
External links
- Guardian profile, 2004
- Talk by Bundy on Globalisation and universities, 1999
- Talk by Bundy on education in South Africa, 2003
- Article by Bundy on truth and reconciliation in South Africa, 1999
- Two-part video of Professor Bundy discussing the implications of the collapse of the Soviet Union on the prospects for global Marxist revolution
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