Shula Marks

Shula Eta Marks OBE, FBA
Born	Shula Eta Winokur (1938-10-14) 14 October 1938 (age 86) Cape Town
Nationality	South African
Alma mater	University of Cape Town, University of London
Occupation(s)	Author, scholar, journalist
Employer(s)	School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Known for	Divided Sisterhood
Spouse	Isaac Marks
Children	2

Shula Eta Marks, OBE, FBA (born 14 October 1938, in Cape Town) is 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 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.[1]

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.[2] 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.[3]

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) [4]
• Douglas Southall Freeman professor, University of Richmond 2005
• Hon 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),[5] 1995
• OBE, 1996
• 7th Annual Bindoff lecture, "Rewriting South African history, or, The hunt for Hintsa's head", Queen Mary and Westfield College (University of London), delivered 12 March 1996[6]
• Humanities Research Board 1997–98, a 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)[7]
• Economy and Society in Preindustrial South Africa (edited jointly with Anthony Atmore, 1980)[8]
• Industrialisation and Social Change in South Africa: African class formation, culture, and consciousness, 1870–1930 (Edited jointly with Richard Rathbone, 1982), London and New York: Longman, 383 pages[9][10]
• 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)[11]
• The Politics of Race, Class and Nationalism in Twentieth Century South Africa (edited jointly with Stanley Trapido, 1987)[12]
• Not Either an Experimental Doll: The Separate Worlds of Three South African Women (1987)[13][14]
• Divided Sisterhood: Race Class and Nationalism in the South African Nursing Profession (1994)[15]

See also

• KwaZulu-Natal
• Natal Province

References

1. "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？". www.fotac.org (in Japanese). Retrieved 8 January 2018.
2. Debrett's reference for Shula Eta Marks Archived 2014-11-26 at archive.today
3. David Birmingham, 'Shula: A Personal Tribute'. Journal of Southern African Studies, 27/3, Sept 2001.
4. "SOAS Honorary Fellows". SOAS.
5. "Fellows of the British Academy". FellBritish Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences. British Academy. Archived from the original on 29 June 2015. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
6. Marks, Shula (1 January 1996). Rewriting South African history, or, The hunt for Hintsa's head: the seventh annual Bindoff lecture delivered 12 March 1996. Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. ISBN 9780904188257.
7. Marks, Shula (23 April 1970). Reluctant Rebellion: Disturbances in Natal, 1906-08. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198216551.
8. Marks, Shula; Atmore, Anthony (1981). Economy and Society in Pre-industrial South Africa (First printing ed.). London: Longman. ISBN 9780582646568.
9. "Formats and Editions of Industrialisation and social change in South Africa : African class formation, culture, and consciousness, 1870-1930 [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
10. Marks, Shula; Rathbone, Richard (1982). Industrialisation and social change in South Africa: African class formation, culture, and consciousness, 1870-1930. Longman. ISBN 9780582643383.
11. Marks, Shula (1 July 1986). The Ambiguities of Dependence in South Africa: Class, Nationalism, and the State in 20th Century Natal. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801832673.
12. "The Politics of Race, Class and Nationalism in Twentieth Century South Africa eBook: S. Mark, Stanley Trapido, S. Marks: Kindle Store". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
13. Marks, Shula, ed. (22 December 1988). Not Either an Experimental Doll: The Separate Worlds of Three South African Women (Reprint ed.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253286406.
14. Moya, Lily Patience (1988). Not Either an Experimental Doll: The Separate Worlds of Three South African Women. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253286409.
15. Marks, Shula (1 February 1994). Divided Sisterhood: Race, Class and Gender in the South African Nursing Profession. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780312106430.

Sources

• Who's Who 2006
• Debrett's People of Today 2006[1]
• Author page for Shula Marks at Amazon

1. Debrett's reference for Shula Eta Marks Archived 2014-11-26 at archive.today