Person

Beinart, William

1951

William Beinart was Rhodes Professor of Race Relations from 1997 to 2015. He was chair of the Board of the Journal of Southern African Studies (1992-8), Director of the African Studies Centre at Oxford (2002-6 and 2014-5), co-chair of the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies (SIAS, 2006-8), President of the African Studies Association of the UK (2008-10) and Director of Graduate Studies at the African Studies Centre (2009-13). In 2009 he was elected to the British Academy. In retirement he is maintaining connection with some Centre initiatives and also continuing to write and research.