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Shula Marks

Shula Eta Marks, OBE, FBA is a South African-British historian and author. She is a 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.

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) • Douglas Southall Freeman professor, University of Richmond 2005 • Hon DLitt et Phil, University of Johannesburg, 2012 == Other positions and honours ==
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), 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 • 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 ==
Publications
Reluctant Rebellion: An Assessment of the 1906–08 Disturbance in Natal (1970) • Economy and Society in Preindustrial South Africa (edited jointly with Anthony Atmore, 1980) • 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 • 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 ==
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