Colin Bundy
Professor Colin James Bundy (born 4 October 1944) is a South African historian and former Principal[1] of Green Templeton College, Oxford.
Professor Bundy was an influential member of a generation of historians who substantially revised 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. Since the mid-1990s, however, Bundy has held a series of posts in university administration. Professor 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 African peasants and economic change in South Africa, 1870-1913, with particular reference to the Cape (1976).
Career
Bundy was Director and Principal of the School of Oriental and African Studies (2001-06); 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.[2]
Publications
His publications include
- 'Land and Liberation: The South African National Liberation Movements and the Agrarian Question, 1920s-1960s', Review of African Political Economy 11:29 (Summer 1984), 14-29
- History, revolution, and South Africa (Cape Town: University of Cape Town, 1987)
- Remaking the Past: New Perspectives in South African History (Cape Town: University of Cape Town, 1987)
- (with William Beinart) Hidden struggles in rural South Africa: politics & popular movements in the Transkei & Eastern Cape 1890-1930 (London: Currey; Berkeley: University of California Press; Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1987)
- The rise and fall of the South African peasantry (London: Heinemann, 1979; 2nd edn., Cape Town: David Philip; London: Currey, 1988)
- The History of the South African Communist Party (Cape Town: Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies, University of Cape Town, 1991)
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| Preceded by Robert Charlton |
Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand 1997 — 2001 |
Succeeded by Norma Ried-Birley |
| Preceded by Position created |
Principal of Green Templeton College, Oxford 2008 — 2010 |
Succeeded by Sir David Watson |
References
- ↑ University of Oxford: Appointments page
- ↑ Oxford University Gazette: Notices
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. Part One Part Two
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