Shula Marks

Career

• Lecturer in the history of Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies and SOAS 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
• 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, 1978-1979
• Chair, World University Southern African Scholarships Committee, 1981-1992
• Council Society for Protection of Science and Learning, 1983-2013
• 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, 1995
• OBE, 1996
• 7th Annual Bindoff lecture, "Rewriting South African history, or, The hunt for Hintsa's head", , delivered 12 March 1996
• Humanities Research Board 1997-98, a Non-Departmental Government Body of the British Research Council
• Arts and Humanities Research Council, 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
• Economy and Society in Preindustrial South Africa
• Industrialisation and Social Change in South Africa: African class formation, culture, and consciousness, 1870-1930, Longman, London and New York, 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
• The Politics of Race, Class and Nationalism in Twentieth Century South Africa
• Not Either an Experimental Doll: The Separate Worlds of Three South African Women
• Divided Sisterhood: Race Class and Nationalism in the South African Nursing Profession