东京热

Dr Stephen Sparks

Senior Lecturer
Name: Stephen Sparks
Location: A RING 238 Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
Department of Historical Studies听 Staff Members

Contact Details:
Tel: 0115592006

Email:听sjwsparks@uj.ac.za

About Dr Stephen Sparks

I did my undergraduate, Honours and MA degrees in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban before doing my PhD in Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I was appointed to the Department of Historical Studies at the 东京热 in July 2012.

My specialised research interests are in apartheid South Africa, modernism, nationalism, the history of town planning, the history of science and technology, industrial development and everyday life under apartheid. I am beginning preparation of a manuscript entitled ‘Apartheid Modern: Science, Industry and Society in South Africa’. I also have a special interest in historiography.

Qualifications

DPhil, University of Michigan, Anthro and History (2012)

MA, History, University of KwaZulu-Natal (2004)

Honours History, University of Natal (2002)

BA, University of Natal (2001)

Service

Editorial Board of Transformation: Critical Perspectives on southern Africa

Teaching

Since joining the 东京热 I have taught undergraduate courses on South African history, American history, World History and consumerism. I have taught honours courses on South Asian, African history and global and South African historiography.

Publications

(2025) with Fathima Mayet, 鈥樷�楩rustrated Ambitions: Teacher Associations and segregated schooling in the Transvaal, c. 1920-1956鈥� South African Historical Journal.

(2023) 鈥楳odernist Planning in South Africa鈥� Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. 2023.

(2020) 鈥楾he Peculiarities of South African history: Thompsonian social history and the limits of colonialism鈥� Social History 45: 4

(2020) 鈥楾he apartheid project鈥� in Daniel Magaziner (Ed.) Oxford Handbook of South African History (Oxford University Press)

(2019) 鈥楨tienne Rousseau, Broedertwis and the politics of consumption within Afrikanerdom鈥� Ilana van Wyk and Deborah Posel (eds) Conspicuous Consumption in Africa (Johannesburg: Wits University Press/New York University Press)

(2017) 鈥楥rude Politics: the African National Congress, the Shipping Research Bureau and the Anti-Apartheid Oil Boycott, c1960-1979鈥� South African Historical Journal 69:2, 251-264

(2016) Between 鈥楢rtificial Economics鈥� and the 鈥楧iscipline of the Market鈥�: Sasol from Parastatal to Privatisation鈥� Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol. 42, No. 4 711鈥�724(2002) 鈥樷�橮laying at Public Health鈥�: The Search for Control in South Durban, 1860-1932鈥� in Journal of Natal and Zulu History, Volume 20: 2002

(2013)Historia 58:1, 215-239

(2006) 鈥楥ivil Society, Pollution and the Wentworth Oil Refinery鈥� Historia 51:11, 201-233

(2005) 鈥� 鈥�they say that they do not know this disease鈥�: Epidemic influenza in Rural Natal. Journal of Natal and Zulu History, Volume 23.