Colin Bundy
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Colin James Bundy (born 4 October 1944) is a South African historian, former principal[1] of Green Templeton College, Oxford and former SOAS University of London director.[2] Bundy was an influential member of a generation of historians who substantially revised our understanding of South African history. In particular, he wrote on South Africa's rural past from a predominantly Marxist perspective, but also deploying Africanist and underdevelopment theories.[3] Since the mid-1990s, however, Bundy has held a series of posts in university administration. Bundy is also a trustee of the Canon Collins Educational & Legal Assistance Trust.
Education
He received his secondary education at Graeme College, Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape Province.
Bundy was educated at the University of Natal (B.A.) and the University of the Witwatersrand (B.A. (Hons)). He was then a 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 Template:Cite thesis
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 Oxford as a research fellow at Queen Elizabeth House (1979–80) and in the Department for External Studies (1980–84), subsequently being elected an honorary fellow of Kellogg College. From 2006 until 2008 he was warden of 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
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- Remaking the Past: New Perspectives in South African History (Cape Town: University of Cape Town, 1987)
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References
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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