Professor William Beinart William Beinart has been Rhodes Professor of Race Relations since 1997 and is a Professorial Fellow at St Antony's. The position was established in 1953 to research and teach on ‘race relations’ with special reference to southern Africa. It has become an African Studies post. He was chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Southern African Studies (1992-1998); Dean at St Antony’s (1998-2000); founding Director of the African Studies Centre at Oxford (2002-6); co-chair of the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies (SIAS, 2006-8); President of the African Studies Association of the UK (2008-10) and is currently Director of Graduate Studies at the African Studies Centre. His major research and teaching interests are in southern African history and politics and in environmental history. Recent publications include Twentieth-Century South Africa (2001); The Rise of Conservation in South Africa (2003); with Lotte Hughes, Environment and Empire (2007); with Marcelle Dawson (eds), Popular Politics and Resistance Movements in South Africa (2010) and with Luvuyo Wotshela, Prickly Pear: the Social History of a Plant in the Eastern Cape (2011).
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