Visiting professor from South Africa: Dr. Sandra Swart

We are pleased to welcome Prof. Dr. Sandra Swart from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa as a guest from July 2 to 16, 2024 as part of an Erasmus+ exchange. Prof. Swart will give a lecture in the modern research colloquium entitled: "Becoming a Lion's Historian: More-Than-Human Solutions for Living on Planet Earth" (8.7.2024, 18:15, Campus Center, Room 1111) and we will further deepen our research and teaching cooperation with the University of Stellenbosch.You will find Prof. Swart in room 2110 A, Nora-Platiel-Str. 5.

SANDRA SWART is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She received her DPhil in Modern History from Oxford University in 2001, while simultaneously obtaining an MSc (with distinction) in Environmental Change and Management, also at Oxford. She studies the socio-environmental history of southern Africa, with a particular focus on the shifting relationship between humans and animals. She is an editor of the Brill book series African and Asian Anthropocene: Studies in the Environmental Humanities, an editor of the South African Historical Journal and past president of the Southern African Historical Society and current co-Vice President of European Society for Environmental History. It has been her privilege to supervise 21 successful doctoral students from Botswana, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. She has authored and co-authored over 80 peer-reviewed articles and chapters in academic books, co-authored two books, co-edited two books and is the sole author of Riding High – Horses, Humans and History in South Africa (Witwatersrand University Press, 2010 and The Lion’s Historian: Africa’s Animal Past (Jacana, 2023). She is a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for World Environmental History at Sussex University and a Landhaus Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.