Colin Bundy

{{Short description|South African historian and academic administrator}}

Colin James Bundy (born 4 October 1944) is a South African historian, former principal{{Cite web |url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/introducing_oxford/annual_review/new_appointments/new_heads_of_house.html |title=University of Oxford: Appointments |access-date=February 24, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090623124931/http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/introducing_oxford/annual_review/new_appointments/new_heads_of_house.html |archive-date=June 23, 2009 |url-status=bot: unknown }} of Green Templeton College, Oxford and former SOAS University of London director.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2005/apr/21/highereducation.careers?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487|title=Soas head resigns after five years|access-date=14 July 2012|newspaper=The Guardian|date=21 April 2005|first=Donald|last=MacLeod|location=London|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306193513/http://www.theguardian.com/education/2005/apr/21/highereducation.careers?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487|archive-date=6 March 2016|url-status=live}} 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.{{Cite journal| volume = 16| pages = 56–66| last = Colin Bundy| title = Marxism in South Africa:Context, Themes and Challenges| journal = Transformation| date = 1991}} 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 {{Cite thesis| publisher = University of Oxford| last = Bundy| first = Colin| title = African Peasants and Economic Change in South Africa, 1870–1913, with Particular Reference to the Cape.| date = 1976|display-authors=0|url=http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.480460 }}

Career

Bundy was director and principal of the School of Oriental and African Studies (2001–06);{{cite web|title=SOAS Honorary Fellows|url=https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/fellows/|publisher=SOAS|access-date=3 August 2014|archive-date=1 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501014222/https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/fellows/|url-status=dead}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2010-2011/14october2010-no4930/notices/|title=Notices, Oxford University Gazette|last=Oxford|first=University of|website=www.ox.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-01-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180227084556/http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2010-2011/14october2010-no4930/notices/|archive-date=2018-02-27|url-status=dead}}

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.[http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Science/021M-C1149X0014XX-0001V0 National Life Stories, 'Bundy, Colin (1 of 4) National Life Stories Collection: Oral History of Oral History', The British Library Board, 2010]. Retrieved 9 October 2017

He is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge.{{Cite web|url=http://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-colin-bundy|title=St Edmund's College - University of Cambridge|website=www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-09-10}}

Publications

His publications include:

{{Cite journal| volume = 11| issue = 129| pages = 14–29| author = | title = Land and Liberation: The South African National Liberation Movements and the Agrarian Question, 1920s-1960s| journal = Review of African Political Economy| access-date = 2014-07-11| date = 1984| url = http://www.roape.org/029/03.html| doi = 10.1080/03056248408703565| archive-date = 2016-03-03| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303225628/http://www.roape.org/029/03.html| url-status = dead| url-access = subscription}}
{{cite book|author=|title=History, revolution, and South Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QIR0AAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=University of Cape Town|isbn=9780799211047}}
Remaking the Past: New Perspectives in South African History (Cape Town: University of Cape Town, 1987)
{{cite book|author1=|title=Hidden Struggles in Rural South Africa: Politics & Popular Movements in the Transkei & Eastern Cape, 1890-1930|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f8HN80IPv3sC|year=1987|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-05780-7}} (with William Beinart)
{{cite book|author=|title=The Rise and Fall of the South African Peasantry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PbQ6OMxVvn4C&pg=PP18|date=1988|publisher=James Currey Publishers|isbn=978-0-85255-047-2}}
{{cite book|author=|title=The History of the South African Communist Party|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G1YwAAAAYAAJ|year=1991|publisher=University of Cape Town, Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies|isbn=978-0-7992-1334-8}}

References

External links

[http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,5500,1131383,00.html Guardian profile, 2004]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20060925090103/http://www.gradnet.wits.ac.za/archive/GradSpeeches/290699.asp Talk by Bundy on Globalisation and universities, 1999]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20071021092123/http://www.bstrust.org/bundy.htm Talk by Bundy on education in South Africa, 2003]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927223259/http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=3731 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
{{YouTube|id=tEwTF4-zktI|title=Part 1}}
{{YouTube|id=2CSJOhq1bx0|title=Part 2}}

{{s-ttl|title=Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand|years=1997 — 2001}}

{{s-ttl|title=Principal of Green Templeton College, Oxford|years=2008 — 2010}}

Category:1944 births

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Category:20th-century South African historians

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