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First Name
Rebecca
Last Name
Swartz
Country
South Africa
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University of Stellenbosch
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Keywords
colonialism, British empire, South Africa, nineteenth century, Australia, race and racism, history of education, Empire, imperialism
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About Me

Rebecca Swartz is a postdoctoral research fellow with the African Humanities Program at Stellenbosch University. She is a historian of education, childhood, race and British imperialism. Her monograph entitled Education and Empire: Children, Race and Humanitarianism in the British Settler Colonies, 1833-1880, will be published later this year.

Recent Publications

PUBLICATIONS

Monograph

2018                Education and Empire: Children, Race and Humanitarianism in the British Settler Colonies, 1833-1880  (manuscript accepted for Cambridge Studies in Imperialism Series, publication due December 2018).

Edited volume

2016                Peter Kallaway and Rebecca Swartz (eds.) Empire and Education in Africa: The Shaping of a Comparative Perspective (New York: Peter Lang, 2016).

Chapters in edited volume

2016                ‘Industrial education in Natal: The British imperial context, 1830-1860’ in Empire and Education in Africa: The Shaping of a Comparative Perspective, ed. by Peter Kallaway and Rebecca Swartz (New York: Peter Lang, 2016), 53-80.

2016                ‘Introduction’ (with Peter Kallaway), in Empire and Education in Africa: The Shaping of a Comparative Perspective, ed. by Peter Kallaway and Rebecca Swartz (New York: Peter Lang, 2016), 1-28.

Journal Articles

2018                ‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Dilemmas regarding the purpose of public universities in South Africa’, Higher Education (accepted), with Mariya Ivancheva, Laura Czerniewicz and Neil Morris.

2018                ‘Civilisation and Colonial Education: Natal and Western Australia in comparative perspective’, History of Education, 47 (3) (2018), 368-383.

2018                ‘Editorial: Imperial, global and local in histories of colonial education’ (with Peter Kallaway), History of Education, 47(3) (2018), 362-367.

2017                ‘Educating emotions in Natal and Western Australia, 1854-1865’, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 18 (2) (2017), n.p.

2016                ‘“Britishness”, colonial governance and education: St Helenian children in colonial Natal in the 1870s’ (with Johan Wassermann), Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 44(6) (2016), 881-899.

2016                ‘“Good citizens and gentlemen”: Gender, reputation and identity at the South African College, 1880-1910’, South African Historical Journal 68(4) (2016), 517-535.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
South Africa
Expertise by Geography
Africa, Australia
Expertise by Chronology
19th century, Modern
Expertise by Topic
Children & Youth, Colonialism, Emancipation, Gender, Indigenous Peoples, Race